A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills

'Mist fills the Himalayan valleys, and monsoon rain sweeps across the hills.

Sometimes, during the day, a bird visits mea deep purple whistling thrush.

She perches on the window sill, and looks out with me at the rain.' This personal diary records the many small moments that constitute a life of harmonywith the self, the natural world, and friends, family and passersby.

In these pages, we watch a wild plum blossom and the moon come up between two deodar trees; we hear a redstart whistle and the rain drum on a tin roof; we recognize the aftermath of loss and the consolation of old companions.

"A Book of Simple Living" is a gift of beauty and wisdom from India's most loved, and most understated, writer.