Landour Days: A Writer's Journal


Ruskin Bond is the most famous resident of Mussoorie and has written about everything that is there in Mussoorie. In his book, Landour Days: A Writer's Journal, he gives account of his life in the part of Mussoorie which is away from the Mall Road crowd. I myself disappear into one of the guest houses in this part of the Queen of Hills when life in Delhi becomes too much of a burden.


"The habit of keeping a diary has led me into trouble more than once," writes Ruskin Bond in the introduction to this journal of a year in his hometown of Landour, Mussoorie. Filled with warmth and gentle humour, this book captures the timeless rhythm of life in the mountains, and the serene wisdom of one of India's best loved writers.


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