Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra is a collection of 14 semi-autobiographical stories written by Ruskin Bond.[1] The book largely discusses the author's childhood experiences in Dehradun, India, although the setting differs between stories. It was published in 1991.[1] In recognition of this book, Bond was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992.[2]
The Bent-Double Beggar revolves around the narrator's encounter with Genpat, a beggar with a crooked back. He provides a story for what gave him the disability, as well as an assorted collection of proverbial teachings.
Untouchable is a very short account of a ten year old boy's fear of insects and a brief moment of friendship he shares with an "untouchable". Bond wrote this story when he was sixteen.[1]:27
Reception
As per India Today, "Like Dom Moraes, Bond is completely at ease with British-English idiom: he describes descending train passengers as 'debouching'. Yet his precise and reflective prose is closer to Jim Corbett's in being more homegrown: he speaks of khuds, langurs and rustic Pahadi friends."[4]
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