Tusker Tales: The World of His Music

by Ruskin Bond

Tusker Tales, is an amalgamation of stories that revolves around this beautiful band between the most intelligent and one of the most majestic species on this face of earth. The mammal being loved by humans of all age group, the various stories in the book carefully sketches out words from the Elephant's silence. It also talks about how our young ones share a special bond with one of the largest domesticated animal.

94 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2013

About the author

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Reviews

[Anbukarasan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of tusker tales

These stories can be read by children as well as humans of all ages.

Each story narrates unique aspects of elephants and people around them.

[Rajiv K. Nair · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read

A good read as always. It is a sheer pleasure to read your books. Now moving to the next book of yours.