The Days I Loved You

by Ruskin Bond

‘Was it all a dream?
‘It was impossible to say. But the topaz on my hand glowed softly in the darkness. And a whisper from the forest seemed to say, “It isn’t time that’s passing by, my friend. It is you and I…”’
Our memories of the people we loved, rose-coloured and untainted, always have a special place in some corner of our heart. Every time we think back to the moments we lived with them, we still feel phantom echoes of the feelings we felt then—the intensity of those emotions may have reduced, but never their value.
The Days I Loved You is a collection of stories that recount such memories with startling sensory clarity. Let the evocative and sweet prose of the writer on the hill help you rediscover the joys and sorrows of your own lost loves.

141 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 5, 2025

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Ashutosh Misra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Smooth writing by the master story teller. Had read some of the stories before, but each time brings a new feeling. His narration makes the reader visualise the scenario of the story progressing. Just love his style