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    The Night Train at Deoli

    -Ruskin Bond

    The story The Night Train at Deoli was written by famous Anglo-
    Indian author Ruskin Bond, and it was first published in 1988. The story's
    narrator is Ruskin Bond, who shares his train experience throughout the
    book. Every summer, the narrator goes to his grandmother's home for a
    vacation, and on the way to his grandmother's home, he comes across a
    railway station named Deoli, a very small railway station. Her
    grandmother's home is in Dehra, which is thirty miles away from Deoli
    station. The strange thing is when trains stop at Deoli station for 10
    minutes, but no one goes outside of the train, nor anyone comes inside
    the train.

    Whenever the narrator comes to Deoli station, he feels very strange


    as the station is covered with deep forest around it. As the summer
    comes, the narrator goes to his grandmother's home, and as usual, he
    goes by passing Deoli station, where he sees a poor girl who is selling
    baskets at the station without wearing anything on her feet in such a cold
    place. The narrator sees a girl’s hair, which is shining, and a girl also has
    attractive eyes, which the narrator finds very amazing. A girl realizes the
    narrator is staring at her, but she ignores it first. After a while, she goes
    near the narrator and asks him if he wants to buy a basket made of fine
    wood, which the author denies first but ends up buying because of the
    girl's persistent effort.

    Furthermore, the narrator reaches his grandmother's home, but he


    does not sleep through his train journey because he is still thinking about
    a girl who is part of his memories now. After spending two months in the
    grandmother's home, the narrator comes back to his home, and as usual,
    he goes by passing Deoli station, where the narrator sees the basket girl
    again and feels very good, and they talk for a while like they were
    childhood friends. A girl and narrator seem very happy throughout their
    conversation because they haven’t forgotten about their last meeting,
    which was two months ago when the narrator was coming to his
    grandmother's home. The narrator holds the girl’s hand in his hand and
    requests that the girl come with him to Delhi, but she refuses his request
    and tells him that one day we will meet again soon. He told her that I
    would come back to this station soon. Will you be there to meet me again?

    A girl says neither yes nor no and moves forward to sell her basket
    after saying goodbye to him. As the story moves forward, we learn that
    the narrator's graduation is about to be completed, and he decides to
    meet his grandmother again, but we all know why the narrator is going
    back to his grandmother's home in Dehra because he is in love with that
    basket girl. The narrator leaves for Dehra, and when the train passes
    through Deoli, he stops at the station to meet that girl but does not find
    her anywhere. He asks a few locals about the girl who told him that a girl
    has stopped coming to the station.

    He leaves for Dehra but is still thinking about a basket girl, as he is


    in deep love with her looks and memories. When the narrator comes back
    from his grandmother's home, he searches for the girl one more time but
    does not find her anywhere, and in the end, he decides to move on.

    The moral of the story is that people come and people go, and that is life,
    but we should never mourn for them as it gives nothing but pain.

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