Mussoorie & Landour
Ruskin Bond and Ganesh Saili
The result of two decades of research, this volume on Mussoorie and Landour by Ruskin Bond and Ganesh Saili documents the daily life of this old English summer hill-town.
Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.