Rusking Bond, an Indian author of British descent, is the most loved one among the contemporary Indian short story writers. He composes his stories on the basis of his own experiences as it is traced in his works. Bond's stories are about the thirst of love, human relation, profundity and flux of emotions. He possesses the art of understanding the people, their social backdrops, their psyche and knits all of them in writing in such an interesting way that shows the touch of excellence and humanity in his compositions. His collection of stories sharply focuses on the ongoing incidences and explores the subaltern Indian voices with a touch of a sociologist and depicts their characters in the tone of a behavourial psychologist. Usually short-stories offer a limited medium to emotionally engage a reader but Bond's stories remind us that we should always be in touch with the child present inside all of us. This paper is an attempt to analyse the common human feelings regarding longing for love, care and a state of equality for every human being including physically challenged person who is either ignored or extra-sympathised which separates the society into two categories. The mentioned stories in this paper throw light on this issue. Besides, call for non-negligence, betterment of life and expectation for a stranger to come and set free from the present sufferings, and sorrows of a lost, but unconfessed love is explored in this paper.
M.A. (English) Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
