Question

handful of nuts stories

Answer 1

July 19, 2017

A Handful of Nuts means a few friends who roam around the small town and make each other’s lives tough, if not hell. It is a story of Ruskin Bond by Ruskin Bond – especially when he newly entered into the vertices of adolescent. The story is set in Dehradun – of 1950s – where the narrator lives alone and to accompany him are a few friends who like him are ambitious but empty on pockets. Thus, he being a struggling writer often gives them his money, which he not so frequently receives from newspapers or magazines that publish his work. The only worry of his life is that the pay cheques don’t come regularly. Despite having less money, his life is at large good and going. 






Initially hesitant, but soon he develops friendship with a funny Sitaram, son of a washerman. Sitaram is tired of his quarrelsome parents, thus he begins living with him and he proves to be a good and valuable company to the narrator. Sitaram brings pot plants and a pair of trousers and bed sheets for him not with money but by lifting.

Answer 2

A handful of nuts is a gloriously funny and unexpectedly tender story of being young and adventurous in small town India.The narrator hopes to establish himself as a writer but is constantly diverted from his task by romances,escapades and other distractions.The Maharani of Magdor ;Stewart Granger,the movie star;William Matheson,the always broke journalist;Sitaram,the annoying but resourceful son of the local dhobi;a runaway circus tiger and an assorted prose of Dehradun denizens populate the book making it a delightful read.A classic coming of age story,A handful of nuts is one of Ruskin Bond's finest works.