Bond, Ruskin;
Indian Railway Stories
Penguin, 1994, 200 pages
ISBN 0140240667, 9780140240665
topics: | fiction | india | railway
The teeming and varied life of the Indian railway station and its environs... Ruskin Bond: The woman on platform 8 [A woman befriends Arun, the narrator, a child of 12 going to school on his own, as he is waiting for a train. She takes him to the station restaurant and feeds him samosas and tea. Later when another schoolfriend shows up with his mother, she acquiesces with the suggestion that she is the mother. Arun, who doesn't like the other, dominating mother, goes along with this suggestion. ] INTRODUCTION: Soot Gets in Your Eyes by Ruskin Bond STORIES BEFORE INDEPENDENCE: Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days Rudyard Kipling: The Man Who Would Be King, The bold 'prentice Anonymous, By CowCatcher and Trolley, 50 Rudyard Kipling: The Bold Prentice Flora Annie Steel: Snow-Leopard Anonymous: The By-Gone Days Anonymous: The Coolie J.W. Best: The Luck of John Fernandez STORIES AFTER INDEPENDENCE: Jim Corbett: Loyalty Khushwant Singh: Mano Majra Station [from Train to Pakistan] Ruskin Bond: The woman on platform 8 Manoj Das: The Intimate Demon Intizar Husain: A Stranded Railroad Car Satyajit Ray: Barin Bhowmik's Ailment Bill Aitken: Balbir Arora Goes Metric R.K. Laxman: Railway Reverie Victor Banerjee: The Cherry Choo-Choo Manojit Mitra: 99 UP