"Funny things have happened to me all my life, and I find them exhilarating!" says Ruskin Bond, one of India's most loved authors, who supposedly has not one but several funny bones in his body!
'Laugh with Me' is Ruskin Bond's invitation to all readers to join him on a crazy, fun ride through a book that is funny, witty and funny again!
From swimming escapades, train adventures and courtroom dramas to mistaken identities, school episodes and much else, each anecdote will have you rolling with laughter.
"If you can see the humour in your life, and if you can laugh at yourself from time to time-- you will be a happy person."
The bright, lively pages will have you laughing with Ruskin Bond from beginning to end!
Ruskin Bond is one of India's most well-known writers. Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, he grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun and Shimla. In the course of a writing career spanning over seventy years, he has published over a hundred books, including short-story collections, poetry, novels, essays, memoirs and journals, edited anthologies and books for children. The Room on the Roof was his first novel, written when he was seventeen. It received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. He has also received many other awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Many of his stories and novellas including The Blue Umbrella, A Flight of Pigeons and Susanna's Seven Husbands have been adapted into films. Ruskin lives in Landour, Mussoorie. His other books with HarperCollins include These are a Few of My Favourite Things, Koki's Song, How to Be a Writer, The Enchanted Cottage and How to Live Your Life.