Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, 'Untouchable', at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classics 'A Face in the Dark','The Kitemaker''The Tunnel', 'The Room of Many Colours', 'Dust on the Mountain' and 'Time Stops at Shamli'. This volume brings together the best of all the short fiction Ruskin Bond has ever written.

Ruskin Bond's stories bring to life the special flavours of life in the hills...strengthen the "Rudyardian thesis" that the smell of the Himalayas, if it once creeps into the blood of a man, he will return to the hills again and again and will love to live and die among them.