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Ruskin Bond

Sankalp Sharma V A

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Earlier life

He was born on19 may

1934.

Ruskin Bond was born in

a military hospital in

Kasauli to Edith Clerke

and Aubrey Bond. . WhenBond was four years old,

his mother separated

from his father and

married a Punjabi-Hindu,Mr. Hari.

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Following his high school education he went

to his aunt's house in England and stayedthere for four years. In London he startedwriting his first novel, The Room on theRoof, the semi-autobiographical story of theorphaned Anglo-Indian boy Rusty. . Bondused the advance money from the book topay the sea passage to Bombay. He workedfor some years as a journalist in Delhi andDehradun. Since 1963 he has lived as afreelance writer in Mussoorie, a town in theHimalayan foothills.[1] He wrote Vagrants inthe Valley, as a sequel to The Room on theRoof. These two novels were published inone volume by Penguin India in 1993.

His education and career

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Filmography

Based on Bond's historical novel A Flight ofPigeons (about an episode during the IndianRebellion of 1857), the Hindi film Junoon wasproduced in 1978 by Shashi Kapoor anddirected by Shyam Benegal. Ruskin Bond madehis maiden big screen appearance with a cameoin Vishal Bhardwaj's film 7 Khoon Maaf, basedon his short story Susanna's Seven Husbands.Bond appears as a Bishop in the movie with

Priyanka Chopra playing the title role.[2] Bondhad earlier collaborated with him in the The BlueUmbrella which was also based on his story.

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Literary style

Most of his works are influenced by life in the hillstations at the foothills of the Himalayas, wherehe spent his childhood. His first novel, TheRoom On the Roof, was written when he was 17and published when he was 21. It The BlueUmbrella, Funny Side Up, A Flight of Pigeonsand more than 30 books for children

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Collections

Garland of Memories Funny Side Up

Rain in the Mountains-Notes from the Himalayas

Our trees still grow in Dehra

Dust on the Mountain

A Season of Ghosts

Tigers Forever

A Town Called Dehra

An Island of Trees

The Night Train at Deoli

A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings

Potpourri

The Adventures of Rusty

The Lost Ruby

Crazy times with Uncle Ken

The Death Of Trees

Tales and Legends from India

Train stops at Shamli Grandpa tickles a tiger

Four Feathers

His collection

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Awards

He wrote his first novel named 'RoomOn The Roof' when he was all of 17years. The book made him winprestigious 'John Llewellyn Rhys' Prizethat is awarded to BritishCommonwealth Writers who are underthe age of 30.

He received the Sahitya Akademi

Award for English writing in India for'Our Trees Still grows in Dehra' in1992.

He has also been conferred withPadma Shri in 1999, one of the mostprestigious civil awards in India.

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Now

His age is 79 now he lives peaceful life allalone.

But many people come to his home for

introduction

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His introduction

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