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Book review: Upon An Old Wall, Dreaming by Ruskin Bond

A way of life long gone A set of hill stories from the prolific Bond that rues the passing of a gentler age. I will confess to it: late in life, I have become a full-fledged Bond girl. Oh, not the dashing 007, the other one, Ruskin. Therefore, reviewing this book was an activity filled…

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Feature: Forest Research Institute

  Green crucible Dehradun’s Forest Research Institute is  more than just a pretty face. There is an apocryphal story that if you took out all the bricks in this building, and laid them end-to-end, you could circle the earth. It’s on every tourist’s itinerary, a trip to the sprawling, red-bricked institute, built more on the…

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