Question

Can you give a summary of " Party time in Mussoorie " by Ruskin Bond around 100 words ?​

Answer 1

• “Roads to Mussoorie” is an ode by the famous author Ruskin Bond to his home for more than forty years – his dear city Mussoorie.
• The book starts with a rather lame but nevertheless entertaining poem dedicating to all those “who love their books and spend their leisure, in reading both for worth and pleasure”.
• This poem, as the author states at the end, was composed on his way to Mussoorie from Shamli.
• By the means of “Roads to Mussoorie”, Ruskin Bond pays homage to the beautiful town of Mussoorie, its surroundings and its people all of whom have played an important role in shaping him as an author and as a human.
• He starts the book with a backward (instead of a foreword) urging the reader to read the last chapter first before deciding to go ahead with the book.
• He also maintains that he is doing so (writing a backward instead of the usual foreword) because in this book he looks back at all the years he has spent in his beloved city and how this city has always given him a lot.
• In this candid and funny chronicle of his life in Mussoorie, Ruskin vividly writes about his excursions to the various hill stations and hills in and around Mussoorie.
• He comments how he was never much of a climber but more of a steady walker.