Ruskin Bond 
DUST ON MOUNTAIN 
COLLECTED STORIES

Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story; Untouchable ; at the age of sixteen over hundred stories; including the classics A Face in Dark ; The Kitemaker ; The Tunnel ; The Room if many Colours ; Dust on the Mountain ; and Times Stops at Shamli . This volume brings together the best of all the short fiction Ruskin Bond has ever written. [Ruskin Bond s stories] brings to life the special flavours of life in the hills strengthen[s] the Rudyardian thesis that the smell of the Himalayas; if it once creeps into the blood of a man; he will return to the hills again and again and will love to live and lie among them. -Tribune [Ruskin Bond] is a writer who has; with intense depth and sensitivity; absorbed the essence of the culturally syncretic Indian society. -Telegraph