Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (Hindi: रस्किन बोंड, born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent.[1] He was born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh). His father was Aubrey Alexander Bond who served in the RAF during World War II. He had one real sister and brother - Ellen and William. When the writer was 8, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi-Hindu Mr.Hari who himself was married once. At the age of ten Ruskin went to his grandmother's in Dehra because of his fathers sudden death due to frequent bouts of malaria and jaundice. He has lived in Landour since the 1960s, having previously also lived, as a child and young man, in Shimla, Jamnagar, Mussoorie, Dehradun, and London. Most of his writings show a strong influence from the social life in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. His first novel was "The Room On the Roof", published when he was 21 and partly based on the experiences at Dehra in his small rented room on the roof and his friends. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist earlier. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Mussoorie.
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[edit] Novels and long stories
• The Room on the Roof
• Vagrants in the Valley
• Delhi is not Far
• A Flight of Pigeons
• The Sensualist
• The India I Love
• Rain in the Mountains
• The Lamp is Lit
• Funny Side Up
• Strangers in the Night
• Rusty
• A season Of Ghosts
[edit] Short stories
• The Woman on Platform 8
• The Eyes Have It
• Cricket for the Crocodile
• The Blue Umbrella
• Ghost Trouble
• Angry River
• Dust on the Mountain
• A Guardian Angel
• The Photograph
• Death of a Familiar
• The Coral Tree
• The Kite Maker
• The Window
• The Monkeys
•...
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