Ruskin Bond's Desh
Intro -- Half Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Idea of the Self: Identity, Hyphenation and Problems of Definition -- 2. Desh-Videsh: Scenes as Dialectics of Homecoming -- 3. Intervening the Self: Developing Consciousness of Rusty in The Room on the Roof -- 4. Liberating Motherhood: Mariam Labadoor in A Flight of Pigeons -- 5. Dehra: Return to His Roots in A Handful of Nuts -- 6. 'The India I Carried with Me' -- Index -- About the Author.