Penned Views

Source: Google Hey, mom, Did I ever say I love you to the moon and back? I haven't, I guess. Even if I have, it would be zero compared to yours. You love me ever since you learnt you were going to bring me in this world. And, I love you ever since I gained the little bit of sense and felt I wouldn't be able to live without you anywhere. Did I ever ask how you are? I barely asked, I know. (I’m sorry!) But, you’ve always kept a track on my health both physically and emotionally. I’ve only asked when I saw you severely ill, when you lacked energy and couldn’t get off the bed to make the breakfast for us and suggested to eat out something and buy the lunch home, when you asked to buy the prescribed medicine. I’m sorry, Mum. Did I ever thank you for anything- for bringing me in this world, for sending me to a good school, for educating me, for guiding me whenever I was in a mess, for protecting me from this cruel world, for caressing me, for loving me, for comfo...

Source: Google  About the Author: 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 novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Fight of Pigeons and Delhi is Not Far ), essays, poems and children’s books. 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 for Our Trees Still Grows in Dehra , a collection of short stories, and the Padma Shri in 1999. The blurb: In exchange for her lucky leopard’s claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in the village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper. It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes. The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple y...