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Ruskin Bond's short story "The Eyes Are Not Here" tells the story of two blind people who meet on a train. The narrator sits by a girl who he enjoys speaking to, but he cannot see her and wonders what she looks like. He tells her she has an interesting face, which she says she hears often. After she has gotten off the train, a person just getting on indicates that the girl is also blind.
In this story, the narrator is traveling by train through India, and he notices a young woman about to get on the train. The couple who brings her, probably her parents, give her lots of instructions about what to do and how to behave on the train. The narrator says that he was totally blind at the time, only able to see light and dark, and so he could not tell what the girl looked like, but he very much liked her voice. His voice startles her, after she sits down, and he attributes this to her good eyesight, suggesting that sighted people miss lots of things because there is so much for them to see. Only later is the irony of this statement made clear.
The narrator decides to see if he can keep her from realizing that he is blind. They talk about where each of them is going, and he tries to get her to describe the scenery outside, though she likely assumes he's asking about what it's like to be blind. She is pleased when he tells her that she has an interesting face because, she says, she's tired of hearing that she has a pretty face. When the train stops, he knows she'll forget their encounter, but he feels he will remember it forever. He smells her perfume just as she is getting up to leave, and he hears some confusion in the doorway. Presumably this is caused by her inability to see the young man waiting to enter the compartment.
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Ruskin Bond's short story "The Eyes Are Not Here" tells the story of two blind people who meet on a train. The narrator sits by a girl who he enjoys speaking to, but he cannot see her and wonders what she looks like. He tells her she has an interesting face, which she says she hears often.
The narrator was a blind young man. He was travelling to Dehra. A young girl boarded the train alone. The writer carefully observed the precautions being given to her by her parents. The narrator slowly acquainted with the girl and asked where she was going. She told him that she would get down at Shahrampur which was hardly 2 hours journey. The writer took all his precautions and hid the fact that he was blind. He complimented the girl saying that she had an interesting face. She felt delighted for such a remark as all others said that she had a pretty face. The writer was attracted towards her sweet voice and the scented smell of her hair.
When the girl was about to get down, he felt like touching her hair. But his modesty prevented him from doing so. After she got down, another passenger entered the compartment. The narrator asked the new person whether the girl’s hair was long or short. The new passenger answered that he noticed only her eyes and not her hair. He further said that she had beautifully eyes- but they were of no use. This meant that the girl was also blind. With this deeply touching twist, the story ended