"The Rain In The Mountain" Summary Of The Book: Rain In The Mountains: Notes From The Himalayas brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent at the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. These are musings on his natural habitat, scenes from his daily life, in both prose and poetry. Though written in a simple language, they manage to create vivid imagery and capture the essence of mountain life. Some of his writings that are featured in the book are Once Upon A Mountain Time, Sounds I Like To Hear, How Far Is The River, and After The Monsoon.
Rain In The Mountains: Notes From The Himalayas covers the everyday life of the author with descriptive words and lucid writing. "The Rain In The Mountain" CONTENTS Of The Book: SECTION I - ONCE UPON A MOUNTAIN TIME Once Upon A Mountain Time Voting at Barlowganj Miss Bun and Others A Station for Scandal It Must be the Mountains (Play)
SECTION II - MOUNTAINS IN MY BLOOD How Far is the River Four Boys on a Glacier Growing up with Trees Mountains in my Blood A Mountain Stream A Lime Tree in the Hills A New Flower The Joy of Flower Sounds I like to Hear Dragon in the Tunnel Hill of the Fairies The Open Road These I Have Loved A Dream of Gardens A Sweet Savour Great Trees I Have Known Picninc at Fox-Burn A Wayside Teashop All About my Walkabouts Great Spirits of the Trees Birdsong in the Mountains Meetings on the Tehri Road Guests who Fly in from the Forest Up at Sisters Bazaar SECTION III - NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE SECTION IV - MOUNTAINS ARE KIND TO WRITERS In Search of a Winter Garden The Old Lama The Night Roof Blew Off Mountains are Kind to Writers Best of All Windows A Knock at the Door Sounds of the Sea All My Writing Days The Trail to the Bank Where the Grass Grows Greener Better to Have a Bird in a Bush Coaxing a Garden from Himalyan Soil Where Rivers Meet After the Monsoon The Road to Anjani Sain SECTION V - TIME TO CLOSE THE WINDOW
