The Lamp is Lit, Ruskin Bond
The Lamp is Lit, Ruskin Bond
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The Lamp is Lit

Author: Ruskin Bond

Narrator: Elvis Mathias

Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2018

Synopsis

Autobiographical sketches and stories from India's best-loved writer in English. For over four decades now, by way of innumerable short stories, essays, poems and novels, Ruskin Bond has championed simplicity and quietude in life and in art. This collection of essays and episodes from his journals is, in his own words, "a celebration of my survival as a freelance'. The author's early forays into the literary magazines of the 1950s and '60s are described in the first part of the book, along with some examples of his work at the time. The sections that follow contain extracts from an unpublished travel journal he kept during the '60s, episodes from the highways on which he was a frequent traveller, and vignettes of life in Mussoorie, past and present. With understated humour and compassion, Ruskin Bond records the charming eccentricities of friends and acquaintances (a former princess cheerfully obsessed with death and disaster); the silent miracles of nature ("New moon in a purple sky'); life's little joys (the smell of onions frying) and its fleeting regrets. Nostalgic and heart-warming, full of wisdom and charm, The Lamp is Lit provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of "our very own resident Wordsworth in prose.

About The Author

Ruskin Bond is one of India’s best-loved writers, who has written over 500 short stories, essays and novellas, and more than forty books for children. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vikas on August 01, 2022

It is a heart-warming, nostalgic collection of articles, essays and short stories from Ruskin’s early days as a writer. The anthology beautifully captures the struggle, innocence and dreams of a young writer as he does a fine balance between his struggles with daily challenges and dream of being a s......more

Goodreads review by Charu on March 17, 2014

I always love reading Ruskin Bond for the simplicity his writing offer. Being someone from north India, I can relate to the characters and places he writes about. It's impossible not to feel nostalgically happy after reading him.......more

Goodreads review by Gorab on June 29, 2019

Happiness is an elusive state of mind, not to be gained by clumsy pursuit. It is given to those who do not sue for it: to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it. This is yet another autobiography written in 1998. Have read quite a few of his books (including THE aut......more

Goodreads review by Ekta on August 24, 2022

'...to be true to oneself is to be true to others.' thus says Ruskin Bond, and proving himself true to his readers, he gives an autobiographical account of his life through essays and casual leaves from his journal. Moving from his first piece of autobiography, 'Scenes From A Writer's Life', this bo......more

Goodreads review by Abhishek on December 26, 2019

Delightful read. Reading Mr. Bond is therapeutic because you come across lines like following and pause for a moment to appreciate and reflect upon it But whenever or however he died, it wouldn't be death. He was too old to die. He could only sleep.He could only fall gently, like an old brown leaf.........more

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