Gorab

“The deer’s life is over, but he has not lived in fear of death. It is only man’s imagination and fear of the hereafter that makes him afraid of meeting death.”
― Ruskin Bond, Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas

“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 first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying.”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

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