Hi friends, so today I am going to tell about Ruskin Bond. So let's start it.
Ruskin Bond is considered as one of the greatest Indian authors of the English language. His wide array of short stories, novels, essays, poems, travelogues, and articles in newspapers and magazines have inspired many aspiring writers for the past six decades. Best known as a children’s story writer, Ruskin Bond has dabbled in a variety of genres, from ghost stories to ‘odes to nature’ to unrequited love stories. His writing career brought him fame, honours and a number of awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award (1992), Padma Shri (1991), Padma Bhushan (2014). Born to Anglo-Indian parents, Aubrey Alexander Bond and Edith Dorothy Clerke, on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, Ruskin Bond had a less than normal childhood as other Anglo-Indian kids of his age. By the age of ten, Bond had experienced living with princes and princesses in Jamnagar (Gujarat), studying in a boarding school in Dehradun. All these experiences influenced his stories throughout his life. His most loved childhood experiences stem from his father’s nurturing affection, his motherly ayah, his gardener named Dukhi, and the thousands of books he read. The first book he ever read was Alice in Wonderland, which still remains his favourite. After completing his schooling, Bond went to England for further education. It was there that he completed and published his first novel, The Room on the Roof. This won him the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize (1957). Bond spent four years in England, but his heart was back in India, where he was born and had spent some of his dearest days. He decided to return. According to him, he felt more comfortable around “peepal trees” on the slopes than “apple orchards” in the countryside, and he was more attracted to a life with the Indian masses, than the sophistication of British citizens. Some of his Famous books are The Room on the Roof, Kashmiri Storyteller, The Blue Umbrella, The Night Train at Deoli and some of his famous poems are LONE FOX DANCING, IT ISN'T TIME THAT'S PASSING, Do not be Afraid of the Dark.
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