Dust On The Mountain (A Puffin Chapter Book)
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : February 2016
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780143334040
- Imprint : Puffin Books
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : English
Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story; 'Untouchable'; at the age of sixteen over hundred stories; including the classi ...
Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story; 'Untouchable'; at the age of sixteen over hundred stories; including the classics 'A Face in Dark'; 'The Kitemaker'; 'The Tunnel'; 'The Room if many Colours'; 'Dust on the Mountain'; and 'Times Stops at Shamli'. This volume brings together the best of all the short fiction Ruskin Bond has ever written.
'[Ruskin Bond's stories]' brings to life the special flavours of life in the hills...strengthen[s] the "Rudyardian thesis" that the smell of the Himalayas; if it once creeps into the blood of a man; he will return to the hills again and again and will love to live and lie among them.'-Tribune
Ruskin Bond is the author of several bestselling novels and collections of short stories, essays and poems.
Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Anitha Balachandran makes a precarious living as an animation film-maker, author and illustrator of children’s books. She has always enjoyed telling tall tales, creating characters and painting with watercolours. Her works have been exhibited and published internationally, and she is known for her distinctive style.
