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    A Little Book of Happiness
    A Little Book of Happiness
    A Little Book of Happiness
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    A Little Book of Happiness

    By Ruskin Bond

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    ‘To find happiness, look halfway between too little and too much.’
    —Ruskin Bond
    • Why be happy and how, and why not to worry if you think you are not. 
    • Why it is easy to be happy, and how you can miss happiness even if it stands before you. <

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpeaking Tiger Books
    Release dateMay 10, 2016
    ISBN9789385288951
    A Little Book of Happiness
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    Ruskin Bond

    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.

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      A Little Book of Happiness - Ruskin Bond

      Last Saturday, when I was autographing books at the local bookshop, a young college student asked me, ‘What is the secret of happiness?’

      At first I couldn’t think of an answer, except to say, ‘It’s no secret. Happiness is right next to you’—with particular reference to the pretty girl who accompanied him.

      But thinking about it now, I suppose happiness means different things to different people.

      Beena is happiest in her pooja room, or when she is on the phone talking to her children—Siddharth in New Delhi, Shrishti in Bhubaneshwar, Gautam in Dehradun.

      Rakesh is happy behind the wheel of his car; the last place where I would be happy, having once driven through a garden wall in Friends Colony, New Delhi.

      Nor am I happy on a motor-cycle, which is where Siddharth likes to be happy. And you won’t find me in the Beauty Parlour, frequented by Shrishti when she’s home on holiday.

      Some people are miserable when it’s raining heavily and they can’t go shopping. I’m quite happy on a rainy day because then I can curl up on a sofa, visit Blandings Castle with P.G. Wodehouse, enjoy a village cricket match with Mr Pickwick and his Dickensian friends, or go rowing on the Thames with Jerome K. Jerome’s three men and a dog. A good book on a rainy day is happiness for me.

      As a writer I am also happy when I have completed a story or poem or essay and feel pleased with it. On the other hand, failed creations make me unhappy and I don’t like leaving anything unfinished. If I am not happy with something I have written, it goes into

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