The India I Love - Ruskin Bond

'The India I Love' by Ruskin Bond is more of a journal than a storybook with little poems and memories filling up the pages of the book. The author remembers writing his first novel , 'The Room on the Roof' simply out of nostalgia, how it changed from a journal to a first person narrative and finally to a third person fiction.

He tells us about his homesickness, when he was in England, with a dream of 'a better future' and how he missed his friends in Dehra. We come to know of his childhood friends who were unique in their own way. He tells us of the common people he came across. Common yet so uncommon.

 He confesses how he preferred his ball-point pen and sheet of paper, for expressing his thoughts, to the modern machines designed for the purpose.

Apart from that, he paints a beautiful picture of the 1950s India. His simple narrative style makes the stories even more beautiful.

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