The Road To The Bazaar

“Road to the Baazar” is a compilation of 16 stories with an average length of 6 - 8 pages. Total life of book is 116 pages and was first published in 1980.

All stories are based in a same small town near Dehra with different characters coming in and out of the stories. Ruskin bond not only creates an imaginary town out of his imagination here but also brings out a point that children all over the world are same, with same kind of mind setup and same kind of things to do.

About The Author

Ruskin Bond’s writing career started when he was all of 17 and wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof the novel was based on his life in Dehradun where he lived in a small rented room and his friends. Since then the social, historical influences in the hills around him have been inspiration. His works are especially popular with children and young adults and he has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novellas and more than 30 books. He has also published two volumes of autobiography. Scenes from a Writer's Life, which describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-India, and The Lamp is Lit, a collection of essays and episodes from his journal.

His stories The Blue Umbrella and The Flight of Pigeons have been adapted into films. It is rumoured that Bond will also pen Vishal Bharadwaj's new film, 'The Seven husbands'