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In the semi-autobiographical poem, ‘The Story of Lost Friends’, Ruskin Bond chronicles all the important incidents in his life which lead to friendship being made and then broken. In this poem he narrates a brief story of his childhood, of promises kept and broken, friends made and lost, joy and sorrow, set against the war years in India.
The poem starts with him standing on the edge of the railway- cutting, looking for someone among the hundreds of people in the station and reminiscing. He remembers his dad, his very first friend and companion. He talks about the time when his father took him among the ruins of old forts and palaces, about the times he spent, together with his father. He relives the day when his father told him that he would take him to England when the war was over. ‘But wars are never over and I have yet to go to England…’.The first promise ever made to him was broken as his father died, and he was sent to live with his mother, who lived......

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