THE YELLOW UMBRELLA (PB)

‘What should he be like, this
lost man? A romantic, a man with a dream, a man with brown
skin and blue eyes, living in a hut on a snowy mountaintop… a man who owed
allegiance to
no one… who was his own master, who lived at one with nature knowing no
fear. But that was
not Major Roberts—that was the man I wanted to be.’
It is believed that the foundation of every good relationship—platonic or
otherwise—is friendship. The familiarity and ease that grow in friendships is
what get many of us through a hard day. But it is not just the long-lasting
associations that help us through life; it is also the acquaintances
that
we collect along the way. People are a sum of parts—of ephemeral yet
significant encounters, and
enduring and monumental intimacies. What makes a person whole is all the
parts of themselves—
good, wonderful, bad, ugly. In The Yellow Umbrella, with the story titled
the same that has never
appeared in print before, Ruskin Bond takes us down memory lane with
nuggets from his past. The
parts that made him who he is: unattainable love, intriguing friends,
sturdy companions and books that help us through a rainy day.