Ruskin Bond has 14 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 11 narrators. The most-rated is Time Stops at Shamli.
A Little Book of Happiness
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'To find happiness, look halfway between too little and too much.' (Ruskin Bond) Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not. Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness even if it stands before you. How a bird can fill you with joy and how a stranger’s smile can soothe you. Why happiness may not even be the word for what we really need.
©2016 Speaking Tiger (anthology copyright), Ruskin Bond (introduction copyright) (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
Whispering in the Dark
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‘One by one the clocks of the town struck midnight, when the sounds died away the deep silence of windless night fell again over everything...’ A great imagination makes for terrific ghost stories - stories that go beyond the tapping on the doors in the middle of a night or a whistling thrush or even a squeaky swing in the wind. This is a collection of some such horror stories selected and compiled by Ruskin Bond that will send shivers down your spine. There is Flaxman Low, the Sherlock Holmes of the supernatural, and his psychological detection by his creators E. and H. Heron; Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Decoy’ and ‘The Empty House’, taking suspense to unbearable lengths; a friendly hoax in Perceval Landon’s ‘Thurnley Abbey’ that turns into real horror; Alice Perrin’s jungle thriller ‘The White Tiger’; and many more such tales that will spook you with the very best of suspense, mystery and the supernatural.
©2018 Ruskin Bond (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
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Rusty Chala London Ki Ore [Rusty Walked Toward London]
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Bees saal ki umr paar karte hee Rusty Dehra chodhkar London chala jata hai. Uske mann mein sapna hai vahan jaakar ek lekhak banne ka. Din mein vah clerk ki naukari karta hai aur der raat jaagkar likhta hai. Tees saal vahan bitaane ke baavjood Rusty ko London ras nahin aata. Uske mann mein, yaadon mein ab bhi basa hai Bharat aur Dehra, jahan usne apna bachpan bitaya tha. Aakhirkaar vah Dehra vaapis aa jata hai aur fhir vahin rehta hai. London mein Rusty ke saath anek mazedaar kisse hote hain jo iss kitaab mein sammalit hain. Ruskin Bond Bharat ke atyant lokpriya lekhak hain. Lokpriya paatr Rusty ki kahaniyon ki shrinkhala mein Ruskin Bond ki yeh chauthi kitaab hai. ‘Sahitya Academy Puraskar’, “Padma Shri’ aur ‘Padma Bhushan’ se sammanit Ruskin Bond ki anya ullekhniya pustakein hain - Room on the Roof, Ve Awaara Din, Adventures of Rusty, Night Train at Deoli, Dilli ab Door nahin, Udaan, Panther’s Moon, Andhere mein ek Chehra, Ajab-Gajab meri Duniya, Mutthi Bhar Yaadein, Rasiya, Rusty aur Cheetah, Rusty jab bhaag gaya aur Rusty ki ghar waapsi. Please note: This audiobook is in Hindi.
©2019 Ruskin Bond (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Ruskin Bond: The Essential Collection for Young Readers
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Ruskin Bond has been writing stories for children for over six decades now, delighting and enchanting each new generation with his heart-warming tales of friendship, love and coming-of-age. Curated in this essential collection are some of his best-loved stories, designed to introduce the young listener to Ruskin's cast of beloved characters - from the irrepressible Rusty, with his constant thirst for adventure, to his grandfather, with his overflowing kindness towards all creatures great and small; from the resolute Bina, who braves a leopard to walk to school, to Suraj and Sunder Singh, who become unlikely friends. Including classic tales such as 'The Girl on the Train', 'Coming Home to Dehra', 'The Room of Many Colours' and 'The Blue Umbrella'. In turns funny, touching, whimsical and nostalgic, this collection is a must-listen for children and adults alike.
©2015 Ruskin Bond (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
The Beauty of All My Days
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So here I am, delving into the past like Monsieur Poirot, not to solve a mystery but to try to understand some of the events that have helped define the sort of person I have become. Some of it, naturally, is in the genes; but much of it is in the environment, in the circumstances in which we grow up, in the people who come into our lives, even in the air we breathe. Had I grown up in London or Timbuktu, I would have been a different sort of person, I'm sure. My parents (and those before them) made me. But India made me, too. The soil, the air, the wind, the rain, the trees, the grass, the proximity of people - all these things made me.... Different things at different times helped to make the individual that is me, just as different things at different times helped to make you, just as they went into making your brothers and sisters, who are very different from you. "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself," said Walt Whitman. Each chapter of this memoir is a remembrance of times past, an attempt to resurrect a person or a period or an episode, a reflection on the unpredictability of life. Some paths lead nowhere; others lead to a spring of pure water. Take any path and hope for the best. At least it will lead you out of the shadows.
©2018 Ruskin Bond (P)2019 Random House Audio
Dust on the Mountain
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Bisnu finds how dangerous and lonely life can be for a boy who has to leave his home to earn money for his family. As he sets to work on the limestone quarries with the choking dust enveloping the beautiful mountain air, he longs for home more than ever.
©1990 Ruskin Bond (P)2019 Random House Audio
Panthers Moon (Hindi Edition)
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Panthers Moon is a collection of some of Ruskin Bond's most delightful tales, tales of human encounters with birds and animals. These tales are unique in nature and vary significantly, from a tale of a dreaded man-eating leopard who terrorized a nearby village to a tale of a unique bond between a cheetah and a boy. These fascinating stories by one of India's most popular story writers, Ruskin Bond, are sure to enchant listeners of all ages. Please note: This audiobook is in Hindi.
©2017 Ruskin Bond (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
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Mutthi Bhar Yaaden [A Handful of Nuts]
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A Hindi translation of Ruskin Bond’s A Handful of Nuts by Rachna Bhola ‘Yamini’, this novel is the story of a 21-year-old writer in a small town in India. Alternately witty, poignant, tender and hilarious, the tale begins with the writer describing his simple and frugal life in Dehra. He occupies a tiny room, spending his days eating at the roadside restaurants, watching cinema and reading all English publications he can find. His goal is to find avenues to get his short stories published, and though he finds plenty such publications, none of those pay well. As he is ruminating about his financial condition, the Maharani of Magdor walks into the hotel. He spirals into memories of his teenage days when he had fallen in love with her daughter, Indu. When the Maharani came across his love letters to her daughter, instead of breaking into a fit of fury, she had complimented him on his writing talent. His literary ambitions are constantly thwarted with a trail of romances, intriguing incidents, compelling trials and tribulations that sprawl across the complex plot. A movie star, a journalist, a circus tiger and many more such fascinating creatures bring alive the vibrant spirit of the town of Dehra. Each character in the story has their own eccentricities, brilliance and turmoil. The realistic depiction of small-town life echoes deeply with the contemporary socio-cultural milieu. A gripping listen, the novella balances simplicity with depth, drawing the listener into a charming, humane and funny account of a young man’s coming of age. Please note: This audiobook is in Hindi.
©2018 Ruskin Bond (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
The Writer on the Hill
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One of India's finest and most prolific writers, Ruskin Bond has been putting pen to paper for well over six decades. Since The Room on the Roof - his award-winning debut novel, which introduced readers to the unforgettable Rusty, the orphan from Dehradun - Bond has created characters both charming and eccentric, which have endured in the popular imagination. And, in what is perhaps his most towering achievement, Bond has brought to pulsing life the mountains, valleys and rivers of Garhwal, as well as the quiet magic of small, tucked-away places, in book after book. The Writer on the Hill is a comprehensive selection of Bond's fiction and non-fiction, both popular and little-known. In 'Masterji', a young man meets his old Hindi teacher on a train platform, in handcuffs. In the excerpt from The Room on the Roof, Rusty stands up to his bullying guardian. 'Man and Leopard' describes, in mesmerizing prose, a heart-breaking encounter between man and the wild. And, in 'Once upon a Mountain Time', Bond creates a charming portrait of his little patch of earth in Mussoorie. A tribute to one of the most popular and loved writers of India, The Writer on the Hill is also a celebration of the quiet, unhurried life, lived at one's own pace. This volume will delight Bond's fans everywhere.
©2014 Ruskin Bond; Edition Copyright Rupa Publications India (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
A Town Called Dehra
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In this delightful collection, Ruskin Bond introduces us to the Dehradun he knows intimately and loves unreservedly - the town in which he had spent many years of his childhood and youth. A town which, when he knew it, was one of pony-drawn tongas and rickshaws; a town fond of gossip but tolerant of human foibles; a town of lush lichi trees; charming winter gardens and cool streams; a small town; a sleepy town; a town called "Dehra". With classic stories and poems like "Masterji"; "Growing Up with Trees"and "A Song for Lost Friends" and previously unpublished treasures like "Silver Screen"; "Dilaram Bazaar" and "Lily of the Valley"; this anthology is replete with journal entries; extracts from the author’s memoirs; and of course, poetry, nonfiction, and stories set in or inspired by Dehra. Evocative, wistful, and witty as only Ruskin Bond can be, A Town Called Dehra is a celebration of a dearly loved town as well as an elegy for a way of life gone extinct.
©2008 Ruskin Bond (P)2018 Random House Audio
The Adventures of Rusty
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Rusty, the boy whose stories have charmed and entertained children for years, brings together his best adventures in one volume! From the time he was a boy living with his grandparents in Dehra, surrounded by an assortment of odd animals, people and relatives, to when he gets sent away to school, then makes his way to London and becomes a writer, Rusty's had more adventures than we can count. This omnibus edition contains his best, funniest, most exciting escapades. In these stories, there's Toto, the monkey that travelled in a bag on a train; an encounter with a leopard; life as a young writer in faraway London; and the return home to roots that were always loved and never forgotten. An evergreen classic of children's writing in India, The Adventures of Rusty will be enjoyed like never before.
©2017 Ruskin Bond (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
The Best of Ruskin Bond
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This volume brings together the best of Ruskin Bond’s prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories, and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has selections from all of his major books and includes the classic novella Delhi Is Not Far.
©2016 Ruskin Bond (P)2019 Random House Audio
The Room on the Roof
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A classic coming-of-age story which has held generations of fans spellbound Rusty, a 16-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends. Plunging for the first time into the dream-bright world of the bazaar, Hindu festivals and other aspects of Indian life, Rusty is enchanted...and is lost forever to the prim proprieties of the European community. This special edition marks the 60th anniversary of this award-winning book, written when the author was just 17. Poignant, heart-warming and an absolute classic, this book is forever a joy to read.
©1956, 2016 Ruskin Bond (P)2018 Random House Audio
Time Stops at Shamli
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Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity. Residents of nondescript villages and towns, they lead lives that are touched by natural beauty as well as suffering - the loss of a loved parent, unfulfilled dreams, natural calamities, ghostly visitations, a respected teacher turned crooked, strangers who make a nuisance of themselves - which only reinforces their abiding faith in God, family, and neighbour. Told in Bond’s distinctive style, these stories are a magnificent evocation of an India that may be fast disappearing.
©1989, 2018 Ruskin Bond (P)2018 Random House Audio