RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS

 

Rain In The Mountains

What a soulful rendition of thoughts!!

Ruskin Bond, a great legendary figure enclosed the beautiful emotions amidst the mountains. Who doesn’t’ want to live in or around the mountains? Ruskin Bond finds great solace in the lap of mother nature. 

This book contains journals, diary extracts, the play, essays and poems. The book is split up into sections. The first section includes journals, the second consists of essays which are followed in the third section along with the diary extracts. The fourth section also consists of essays written in the Nineties followed by the last section ‘The Epilogue’ which ends the book.

Every line is injected with genuine emotions which reflects  Ruskin Bond observes and admires nature and finds meaning in every little thing.

This book tells you many a thing that is needed to know about the author. He is sentimental too. When I was reading the book, I felt myself in the mountains and that feeling is indescribable. The whole book is melodious like a song of the bird. The book is so impactful that anyone can find joy in the tiniest things of life,

Some of my favourite parts are How Far is the River, Sounds I Like To Hear, Meetings on the Tehri Road, Mountains are Kind To Writers, Better to Have  a bird in a Bush, a few poems that made me emotional like Boy In a Blue Pullover, The Wind and the Rain, So beautiful the night, A quite Mind and Silent Birth,

The Epilogue made me cry word-for-word. How modest Ruskin Bond Sir is!

A splendid book and a masterwork as well