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Ruskin Bond’s latest memoir, A Town Called Dehra, is beautifully written. It is set mostly in Dehra Dun, although other places do intrude (Shimla, Delhi). It starts in the ’40s and in a delicious meandering way comes down to present times without any rigid chronological pattern. A stream-of-con  ....Read more

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Right on Jerry!By: Suneet Jain | Wednesday , 8 Jul '09 22:19:12 PM Reply | Forward After reading a short story in my teens, I was hooked to Rusk's work.After I read Delhi is not far, I used to wonder why he is not talked about in the same breath as say R.K.Narayan. At the risk of sounding horribly cliched I think that his greatness lied in his simplicity. I remember as a teen when I had to sit down with a dictionary while reading the classics, Bond's books were just fun to read, almost an escape if you will. I am glad to see someone else thinks along similar lines. Suneet Jain
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