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I Was the Wind Last Night (Book Review)

I Was the Wind Last Night by Ruskin Bond Find the review here too: https://www.freepressjournal.in/book-reviews/i-was-the-wind-last-night-new-and-collected-poems-by-ruskin-bond Name of the book: I Was the Wind Last Night: New and Collected Poems Author: Ruskin Bond Publisher: Speaking Tiger Price: Rs. 399 Category: Poetry ‘Out of the city and over the hill, Into the spaces where Time stands still’ Be rest assured that in no time, the lyricism in his verses will transport the reader from all her woes in connection with the vagaries of the weather, the umpteen troubles that grip her in everyday life into a world of Ruskin’s making where ‘peach and pear are still the sweetest of fruits.’ It is a timeless collection of more than a hundred of his poems written over the years grouped under ‘A Peepul Tree I Knew’, ‘Remember the Old Road’, ‘Friends, Far and Near’, ‘We Must Keep Loving, All Our Days’, ‘I’ll Take the Road Alone’, ‘If Mice Could Roar’, ‘Odds a...