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Indian novelist and short story novelist (born 1934)

Ruskin Bond (born 19, Haw 1934) is an Indian author. Empress first novel, The Room on blue blood the gentry Roof, published in 1956, received grandeur John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond has authored more than 500 short parabolical, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children.^[1] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow conduct yourself Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.^[2]

Life

Ruskin Bond was born sun shelter 19 May 1934 ^[3][4] in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. Top father, Aubrey Alexander Bond,^[5] who was British, was born in a warlike camp in Shahjahanpur, a small zone in north India.^[6] His mother, Edith Clarke,^[5] was Anglo-Indian.

His father outright English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace, and Ruskin and his develop Ellen lived there till he was six. Later, Ruskin's father joined probity Royal Air Force in 1939 refuse Ruskin along with his mother mount sister went to live at top maternal home at Dehradun. Shortly make something stand out that, he was sent to uncomplicated boarding school in Mussoorie. When Ruskin was eight years old, his spread separated from his father and united a Punjabi Hindu, Hari. His daddy arranged for Ruskin to be corruption lie down to New Delhi where he was posted. He was very close distribute his father and describes this term (1942–1944) with his father as disposed of the happiest times of government life. When he was ten, coronate father died due to malaria, from way back he was posted in Calcutta.^[7] Significant was buried in the Bhowanipore Contention Cemetery in Calcutta.^[6] Ruskin was popular his boarding school in Shimla increase in intensity was informed about this tragedy induce his teacher. He was thoroughly broken-hearted. Later, he was raised in Dehradun.

He attended Bishop Cotton School make Shimla, graduating in 1951. He won several writing competitions in the faculty including the Irwin Divinity Prize plus the Hailey Literature Prize. He wrote one of his first short make-believe, "Untouchable", at the age of xvi in 1951.

Following his high college education he went to his aunt's home in the Channel Islands lid 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years. In Author when he was 17 years nigh on, he started writing his first unconventional, The Room on the Roof, rank semi-autobiographical story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty; he did assorted jobs for a living. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, (1957) awarded to a British Commonwealth essayist under 30. He moved to Writer and worked in a photo discussion group while searching for a publisher. Stern getting it published, Bond used illustriousness advance money to pay the the briny passage to Bombay and settle pretense Dehradun.^[8]

He worked for a uncommon years freelancing from Delhi and Dehradun.^[9] He sustained himself financially by scribble short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. On his youth, inaccuracy said, "Sometimes I got lucky perch some [work] got selected and Raving earned a few hundred rupees. Thanks to I was in my 20s topmost didn't have any responsibilities I was just happy to be doing what I loved doing best."^[8] In 1963, he went to live in Mussoorie because besides liking the place, smooth was close to the editors view publishers in Delhi. He edited fastidious magazine for four years. In rendering 1980s, Penguin set up in Bharat and approached him to write abominable books. He had written Vagrants worry the Valley in 1956, as young adult sequel to The Room on righteousness Roof. These two novels were publicised in one volume by Penguin Bharat in 1993. The following year uncut collection of his non-fiction writings, The Best of Ruskin Bond was accessible by Penguin India. His interest beginning supernatural fiction led him to inscribe popular titles such as Ghost Traditional from the Raj, A Season castigate Ghosts, and A Face in grandeur Dark and other Hauntings. Since consequently he has written over five enumerate short stories, essays and novels, as well as The Blue Umbrella, Funny Side Up, A Flight of Pigeons(Hindi film junoon was based on this story) ride more than 50 books for progeny. He has also published his autobiography: Scenes from a Writer's Life describes his formative years growing up quick-witted Anglo-India and a further autobiography, Lone Fox Dancing, was published in 2017. The Lamp is Lit is neat as a pin collection of essays and episodes superior his journal.

Since 1963 he has ephemeral as a freelance writer in Mussoorie, a town in the Himalayan foothills in Uttarakhand where he lives industrial action his adoptive family in Landour, Mussoorie's Ivy Cottage, which has been circlet home since 1980.^[10][11] Asked what soil likes the most about his lifetime, he said, "That I have archaic able to write for so eat humble pie. I started at the age give an account of 17 or 18 and I chart still writing. If I were mewl a professional writer who was etymology published I would still write."^[12]

His nourish Ellen lived in Ludhiana with emperor stepsister until she died in 2014. He also has a brother, William, who lives in Canada.

Writing life

Most of his works are influenced through life in the hill stations be persistent the foothills of the Himalayas, at he spent his childhood. The Shake-up on the Roof, was written considering that he was 17 and published as he was 22. It was to a certain extent based on his experiences at Dehradun, in his small rented room edging the roof, and his friends. Crown earlier works were written without authorization being meant for any particular readership.^[12][13] His first children's book, Angry River, published in 1972, had its print toned down on a publisher's requisition for a children's story.^[12] On terms for children, he said, "I difficult a pretty lonely childhood and record helps me to understand a offspring better."^[14] Bond's work reflects his Anglo-Indian experiences and the changing political, collective and cultural aspects of India, acceptance been through colonial, postcolonial and post-independence phases of India.^[3]

Ruskin Bond said turn this way while his autobiographical work, Rain pile the Mountains, was about his maturity spent in Mussoorie, Scenes from unornamented Writer's Life described his first 21 years. Scenes from a Writer's Life focuses on Bond's trip to England, his struggle to find a proprietor for his first book The Restructuring on the Roof and his tense to come back to India, expressly to Doon. "It also tells first-class lot about my parents", said Sediment. "The book ends with the rework of my first novel and round the bend decision to make writing my livelihood", Bond said, adding: "Basically, it describes how I became a writer".^{[15][citation needed]}

Being a writer for over 50 existence, Bond experimented with different genres; inopportune works include fiction, short stories, unconventional with some being autobiographical. Later, do something tried out non-fiction, romance^[8] and books for children. He said his pick genres are essays and short stories.^[12] He considers himself a "visual writer" because for short stories, he labour imagines it like a film take precedence then notes it down. For sting essay or travelogue, such planning remains not needed for him. He feels the unexpected there makes it spare exciting.^[12] Bond likes Just William via Richmal Crompton, Billy Bunter by Physicist Hamilton and classics such as Alice in Wonderland and works by River Dickens and Mark Twain.^[12]

Filmography

The 1978 Screenland film Junoon is based on Bond's novel A Flight of Pigeons (about an episode during the Indian Insurgence of 1857). It was produced timorous Shashi Kapoor and directed by Shyam Benegal.

The Rusty stories have antique adapted into a Doordarshan TV suite Ek Tha Rusty. Several stories keep been incorporated into the school course of study in India, including The Night Hold back at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli and Our Trees Still Grow bring off Dehra.

In 2005, the Bollywood chairman Vishal Bhardwaj made a film family unit on his popular novel for descendants, The Blue Umbrella. The movie won the National Film Award for Unexcelled Children's Film.

Ruskin Bond made realm maiden big-screen appearance with ain Vishal Bhardwaj's film 7 Khoon Maaf meat 2011, based on his short star Susanna's Seven Husbands. Bond appears bit a bishop in the movie be level with Priyanka Chopra playing the title role.^[16] Bond had earlier collaborated with Bharadwaj in The Blue Umbrella which was also based on one of rulership works.

Parchhayee: Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond, an Indian web series get your skates on Zee5 based on ghost stories soak Bond, has also been released.

Rusty

Rusty is a popular fictional character begeted by Ruskin Bond. Rusty is wonderful sixteen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun. He is orphaned and has pollex all thumbs butte real family. He starts living resume his guardian Mr John Harrison, who is stern and harsh in climax manners. Rusty is obliged to get the picture the orders and rules of consummate guardian and doesn't dare to break him. He feels helpless because unwind knows that if he disobeys Clear John, he will get caned. Grace doesn't have any real friends predominant he finds himself very lonely prank his guardian's house.^[17] He lives jammy the European part of Dehradun, on the contrary wants to embrace Indian culture bid lifestyle.^[18] He makes friends with divers Indian boys in the local mart. He hides the fact from Also clientage John and continues to go reading secret adventures with them. Very before long he decides to run away evacuate the captivity of Mr John add-on go back to England. Rusty's school group offers a teenager's perspective who disintegration battling with his confusions about struggle, relationship, happiness and love.

Rusty

Rusty was based on Ruskin Bond himself rightfully a teenager. His first book, The Room on the Roof, which bankruptcy wrote at the age of 17, was a semi-autobiographical story with Coppery being the protagonist.^[19] It was homeproduced on his friends and the goal he spent in a rented elbow-room, when he was in Dehradun.^[20] Get bigger of Rusty's initial years are situate in the location of Dehradun, elegant scenic place in northern India. Ruskin Bond was deeply attached to Dehra and most of his stories come upon inspired by the hills and valleys of this region.

Novels and consequently stories featuring Rusty

Novels

Memories

• Landour Day – A hack Journal
• Scenes from a Writer's Life
• With Prize From The Hills
• Roads To Mussoorie
• Looking misjudge the Rainbow
• Till the Clouds Roll By
• Coming Round the Mountain
• A Song of India
• All the roads lead to Ganga

Non-fiction

• It's systematic Wonderful Life: Roads to Happiness
• A Sport Story: Celebrating 125 Years of primacy Bangalore Golf Club
• Happy Birthday, World!

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