Penguin Book of Indian Railway

The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways-from the small-town station at the time of the Raj to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teeing and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greatest railway stories the subcontinent has produced. 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 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.