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‘What should he be like, this lost man? A romantic, a man with a dream, a man with brownskin and blue eyes, living in a hut on a snowy mountaintop… a man who owed allegiance tono one… who was his own master, who lived at one with nature knowing no fear. But that wasnot Major Roberts—that was the man I wanted to be.’It is believed that the foundation of every good relationship—platonic or otherwise—is friendship.The familiarity and ease that grow in friendships is what get many of us through a hard day. Butit is not just the long-lasting associations that help us through life; it is also the acquaintances thatwe collect along the way. People are a sum of parts—of ephemeral yet significant encounters, andenduring and monumental intimacies. What makes a person whole is all the parts of themselves—good, wonderful, bad, ugly. In The Yellow Umbrella, with the story titled the same that has neverappeared in print before, Ruskin Bond takes us down memory lane with nuggets from his past. Theparts that made him who he is: unattainable love, intriguing friends, sturdy companions and books that help us through a rainy day.