Review: Song of the Forest by Ruskin Bond
Song of the Forest is a collection of some of the best recent fiction by Ruskin Bond. While it is always a pleasure to read Mr Bond, that pleasure is also accompanied by pangs of inadequacy not just at his writing prowess but at his charmed life or at least the life imagined in this collection. For where else will you come across mysterious encounters in a garden, lost lovers who return, doppelgangers that chase you, pests that keep returning to steal chocolate, apartments frequented by the ghosts of their owners, hare…