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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

One word review: Poignant!

So, my second read in chronology from Ruskin Bond , The Hidden Pool is a piquant drama, a short story. The story narrates the life moments of three boys while they are together. The narration is trademark Ruskin Bond style; emotional and rustic leaving us with heavy hearts at the end of the story.

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Anil, Anil Kumar! Kumar means prince, but of course I am not a prince.

Having lost my childhood, I am reviving them back through Ruskin Bond's stories. And The Hidden Pool is one such story that leaves you longing for getting back to your childhood. It is adventurous, heart whelming and melodious. The story follows the everyday adventures of three boys who become befriended in a fortuitous way and discover the joys of life.

I'm going to be a writer. I suppose I won't make much money, but if I like writing and if I have a few good friends, I should be happy.

In The Blue Umbrella the story revolved around a beatific umbrella. Likewise in The Hidden Pool , a pool forms a cardinal spot in the lives of the boys and with minimal chapters strikes our heart with emotional rod. Being a reader, you only wish you could discover your own pool among nature's cradle and enjoy it with your friends. The characterization of the boys are pragmatic and it alludes to the poignant story.

Come back as soon as you can. The mountains are waiting for us.

Ruskin Bond stories are always an amazing read that is meant to attract and edify children. And The Hidden Pool doesn't miss out on this.

Verdict: Another Childhood Adventure that you shouldn't miss out!

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Ruskin Bond’s Hidden Pool: A Book Report

written by: Ampat Varghese Koshy

When I was a child I had a copy of Hidden Pool that was really printed like a children’s book in its dimensions with large black and white pictures inside. It was one of my greatest treasures but though it probably still survives and is with my eldest or second brother or in my father’s house in Thiruvananthapuram, recently I got the chance to get my own copy from no other book store than the one frequented by Bond himself, though I could not meet him. After feeling happy a book on him by my colleague Cynthia Michael was there in the shop with my blurb which the bookstore man assured me Bond had read, I bought only one book which was not Room on the Roof, or Night Train to Deoli or Blue Umbrella, all books I had loved but Hidden Pool. It was a much smaller version with different illustrations but I devoured it instantly. Room on the Roof was based on it, and Rusty’s prototype is Laurie.

It has a younger version of Ruskin Bond as Laurie and two other characters who are Anil who is the son of a local cloth merchant in a small hill station of a town in India, and Kamal who is an orphan who sells buttons and combs and hopes to enter college by studying hard for the matric all by himself.

Their lives are knit together by age and the need for friendship and changed by a series of events that include finding a hidden pool that is their secret meeting place, celebrating Holi together and listening to stories about supernatural beings from Anil’s grandmother as well as an unforgettable glacier (Pindari) trek in which a fourth lovable child of a character, Bisnu appears as their sherpa or guide.

When I read it long ago, it was exotic for me as in my home town down south we did not celebrate Holi, had no chaat shop or hidden pool, and no tales of yetis or glaciers or snow. But beyond all that what really struck me was the friendship between the boys that knew no barriers of class or race or religion (or caste, I think), seemingly. Here to me was the answer to why India mattered for in it the East and West could meet as proved by Ruskin Bond, whom I considered immediately greater than R K Narayan and Rudyard Kipling and EM Forster for this vision of his, and his delectable story telling powers and his exquisite English.

I felt sad when Kamal failed the exam in the book and happy that he would try again and loved the part where the boys scared themselves after hearing the “bhoot, preth, dana, pisach” stories of Anil’s grandmother, and loved their sparring and conversational sessions by the hidden pool and the unforgettable dangerous adventure of the glacier trek where they returned in one piece as well as the characters in the book, with the powerful and beautiful descriptions littered throughout it of the beauty of nature. This second time around it was even more powerful as I had by now been in chaat shops which were there in Bengaluru and seen glaciers as well as hidden pools and not so hidden ones in Ladakh and was no longer a stranger to the life presented in these stories, having visited and explored the North just before buying the book, especially Mussoorie and Dehra Dun.

The enjoyment was no less keen but the nostalgia was overlaid with a tinge of sadness. At the end of the story the hidden pool vanishes, and I felt that the India of today was becoming a place where the vision of unity in the midst of diversity was also vanishing. East could no longer meet West and live in harmony and peace unlike what Bond had envisaged or North meet South, unless with an effort, much effort. The innocence was gone and I feared soon his books that can be found in Mussoorie even in coffee shops would be too. But his immortal novella, this one, the Hidden Pool, will never die, all the same. It is a great book not only for children but also for adults, universal and particular, local and transcendental, and a classic, richly deserving all the reprints it has had and my only disappointment was finding a single typo in it and the different size as well as the new illustrations.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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Child's innocence speaks so much on life!

Wednesday, 23 August, 2006

Oh I read this book during my childhood. It was this book which prompted me to visit Ruskin Bond while on a vacation to Mussorie. His books are just like him, simple and innocent.

Thursday, 24 August, 2006

Indeed after the reading this book one feels : There are a lot of take aways from the story of three wonderful boys. I have read it and find it brings childhood back

Allo Chins! Will definitely keep it in mind to grab a copy if I do come across one. Good to know you're blogging :) Also, here's a recommendation for a book I got recently. Its on my 'next-book-to-buy' list..you've probably heard of it... its called "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini - an afghan writer... if you do manage to read it before I do, i'll look forward to your comments on it :) Cheers! Me.

Friday, 25 August, 2006

Chins, That' surely one of those books which has got many like me reading from early days. And I like the depth and detail of the review here. Gave me a feeling of having read the whole at the end of it. Keep blogging. Cheers, Me..!!

Wednesday, 30 August, 2006

hey y dont u try,,,,salman rushdie's midnight children and arundhati roy's the god of small things,,,they r better!!!!

Wednesday, 06 September, 2006

Hey Chinmay! Wonderful review of a fantastic book! BTW Ruskin Bond happens to be one of my Favourite authors and his writtings never fail to charm the reader. Loved the review coz it gives the gist of the story and still leaves the complete story untold...keep writing.. - Shama

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Memoirs of a regular guy who has no claim to fame whatsoever, the hidden pool.

When we first moved to New England, I was smitten by the scenery.  We moved in summer and the trees were tall and green.  Narrow roads wound their way surreptitiously through towns and the countryside. For long stretches, they were bordered by stonewalls .  And the trees, tall and green, flanked the roads on either side, the sun peering through the canopy, left the roads dappled with splotches of sunlight amongst the shadows cast by the trees.  

We rented a townhome that was close to the town forest. I initially walked for short distances on the main trail.  Shortly thereafter, I started exploring the woods on my bicycle, sticking to the main trails but covering more distance.  One morning, I followed a faint trail off the beaten path and as I negotiated the stones and tree roots, I found myself going deeper into the woods.  The trail ended abruptly at a boardwalk and as I dismounted and wheeled my bicycle along, I came to a fairly large pool.  It was surrounded by trees and for all practical purposes was hidden.  The first thought that came to my mind was “the hidden pool”!

“The Hidden Pool” authored by Ruskin Bond was a birthday gift to me from my cousins on my 8th birthday.  It was a story of an English boy called Laurie whose father is posted to a new town in North India.  Laurie is lonely but makes a couple of friends, one in his school and the other who works during the day but attends evening school.  I had been reading comics and books by Enid Blyton.  The Enid Blyton books were individual stories and “The Hidden Pool” was thus my first novel.  I remember being engrossed in the tale and I don’t really remember how long it took me to finish the book but I have a distinct memory of spending a fair amount of time reading the book.

The book intrigued me.  For one, Laurie had a room all for himself and it was accessible by a separate staircase.  We were in a one-bedroom house at that time and my brother and I slept in the living room by rolling a mattress on the floor.  Having a room to myself with a private entrance was a fantasy.  I assumed I could sneak off at night to play with my friends.  The book was set in the foothills of the Himalayas and it introduced me to terms such as glaciers and valleys.  Laurie and his friends in the course of their explorations discover a pool that they decide to keep a secret and it becomes their “hidden pool”.  They swim in its cool waters during the summer and often congregate there to talk to each other.

So, when I beheld the pool, I had a flashback to all those years ago when I read the book as an eight-year-old.  The pool that I had found was hidden but it wasn’t a secret.  It is documented on trail maps and has an entry on Wikipedia. It is a kettle pond left behind by receding glaciers about ten thousand years ago.  A well-known kettle pond in this area is Walden Pond made famous by Thoreau.  His book “Walden” is an ode to minimalism and Walden Pond is now a favorite haunt of the locals.   

Like Laurie, Ruskin Bond is of British descent. A prolific author, his career has spanned several decades. Many of his stories are set around Mussoorie, Shimla and Dehradun, areas where he went to school and continues to live. I’ve since read a few of his stories but “The Hidden Pool” is the one I remember. It introduced me to a lot of new things at that age. If you think back to the 1970s, regional cuisine had to be experienced first hand. There was no internet, no cooking shows or blogs. I was introduced to “fruit chaat” in the book. I inferred that it was a melange of sliced fruit seasoned with spices. I must have pestered my mother a fair bit as one day, she cut a few fruits and sprinkled them with salt and pepper for me to eat. We did not have chaat masala at home and I don’t think we were aware of it either.

Laurie and his friends decide to trek to a glacier and they stay at a “Dak bungalow”. These bungalows were set up by the British at regular intervals and were meant for government officials who travelled across the country. I would come across Dak Bungalows later in books by Rudyard Kipling and Jim Corbett. There were accounts of food cooked by the resident khansamah (cook) but also stories of ghosts and spirits that haunted some of these bungalows. Laurie and his friends share a simple meal of onion soup at the bungalow.  They befriend the watchman who tells them that he has seen a Yeti. This was my first introduction to the abominable snowman and my fertile imagination conjured up a picture of a great ape. A couple of years later when I read “Tintin in Tibet”, I got to see my first visual rendition of the Yeti.

My childhood book collection has been lost and for a few years, I tried to get a copy of “The Hidden Pool” but sadly, it was out of print. On my last trip to Bangalore, I stopped by at a bookstore called Blossom on Church Street and was pleasantly surprised when the salesman told me that a copy was available. It was a Penguin reprint and the cover had changed. It was slimmer and smaller than what I remembered. I read it one night upon my return back home and I finished it in a single sitting. I was reacquainted with Laurie’s friends – Anil and Kamal and their life in small town India.

In the preface, Ruskin Bond mentions that this was his first novel for children and the story is loosely based on himself and his childhood friends. So are the locales mentioned in the book. I marveled at the simplicity of the plot. Even though I reread the book just a month ago, my memories are from the time I read the book for the first time. As an eight year old, I was able to immerse myself in the book and accompany Laurie, Anil and Kamal on their adventures. I was at the pool when they swam, I shrank in fright as they retold stories of spirits and ghosts, I enjoyed the onion soup after a long trek and I felt wistful when the novel ended with Laurie setting off on a train as his dad is transferred to another town. 

Nowadays, it takes me several days to go through a book. I hurtle through the chapters towards the finale and barely remember the names of the characters a few days after I’m done. However, once in a while, I do come across a book that draws me in and when I bid goodnight to my wife at 8:30 pm to turn in for the night, she just smiles since she knows that I’m off on an adventure in some book. I’ve read a few books along the way, but the Hidden Pool still remains my sentimental favorite!

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