Gorab

“I had always considered it an admirable thing to break away from security and respectability. Of course, it is easier for a man to do this. A man can look after himself, he can do without neighbours and the approval of the local society. A woman, I reasoned, would do anything for love provided it was not at the price of security; for a woman loves security as much as a man loves independence.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

“जैसे कैक्टस का पौधा कम जल पीता है, बड़े आदमी का बच्चा कम पढता है।”
― Giriraj Kishore, ढाई घर

“I have written about moonlight bathing the Taj and the sun beating down on the Coromandel coast—and so have others—but who will celebrate little Fosterganj? And so I decided to write this account of the friends I made there—a baker, a banker, a pickpocket, a hare-lipped youth, an old boozer of royal descent, and a few others—to remind myself that there had been such a place, and that it had once been a part of my life.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

“The nettles stung me viciously on the hands and face, and I cursed in my best Hindustani. The European languages have their strengths, but for the purposes of cursing out loud you can’t beat some of the Indian languages for range and originality.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj