Gorab

“All I wanted was a quiet life, a writing pad, books to read, flowers to gaze upon, and sometimes a little love, a little kiss…”
― Ruskin Bond, Tales of Fosterganj

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

“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

“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