I read " Looking for the Rainbow: my Years with Daddy" right after his "Scenes from a writer's life" as it felt like a sort of continuation of the previous book. Ruskin Bond likes to live in the past and that is perhaps the reason that makes his writing so beautiful and full of nostalgia. This book is about the joys and sorrow a ten year old boy felt on account of the carefree time he spent with his father, his dear daddy, and how a cruel stroke of destiny snatched it from him.

The language is poignant and narrates the emotional turmoil and terrible loneliness of the young boy when he had none to turn to for emotional support, not even his own mother.

The most sensitive part of the great storyteller comes across in this little book. Two things linger on in the reader's mind long after the book is complete.

1) That the author still goes back from time to time his dear daddy's last letter to him.

2) How he can never forget that rainy day when he saw his father for the last time at Shimla.

One may try to hold back the tears though.