Akanksha Garg

“I am most at home in small places—Shamli and Saharanpur; Darjeeling and Dehra; Karnal and Kasauli; Meerut and Mussoorie….These are the places I know best, and where I have found my friends and heroes, and my stories.”
― Ruskin Bond, A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

“Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

“The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside".”
― Ruskin Bond, The Blue Umbrella

“As I walked home last night
I saw a lone fox dancing
In the cold moonlight.

I stood and watched. Then
Took the low road, knowing
The night was his by right.

Sometimes, when words ring true,
I'm like a lone fox dancing
In the morning dew.”
― Ruskin Bond, A Book of Simple Living