Ruskin Bond Books – An All time Books-Seller’s Delight

He is an acclaimed Indian author of British descent currently residing in Landour, a picturesque hill station near Mussorie in the foothills of Himalayas with his extended family. An exemplary novelist, short story writer and children’s author of repute with a writing career spanning forty years! This literary genius is aptly honored as the ‘William Wordsworth’ of India.

Yes! You got it right! Our own and the illustrious Ruskin Bond needs no further introduction. For all of us who love reading have sometime or the other gone through his enchanting writings and then wanted to read more of it ...suitably justifying our title ‘An All time Books-Seller’s Delight’. His short-stories constantly find their place in secondary school level English text-books prescribed by all educational boards in India besides of course the college/university books. Bond picks ideas he hits upon from his Himalayan surroundings. Most of his books are enriched with elements of this awe-inspiring mountain abound with its fascinating flora and fauna, thrilling landscapes and cool life. The works are complete with wisdom of simplicity, unassuming humor and love for the people. Bond has undoubtedly established an intimate connection with the mighty Himalayas as well as the common people; he lifts flashes of inspiration from these themes and weaves them into fabulous thoughts spread in his story-books. Often his writings delve deeper while reflecting upon his own life while looking outside the window of his home.

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Ruskin Bond has been writing since his teens. His maiden creative work is The Room On the Top which he wrote when he was just seventeen. The book won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, awarded to a writer less than thirty years of age from the commonwealth countries for a work of exceptional literary merit. Of his other outstanding books ‘The Flight of Pigeons’ (1978) set at the backdrop of Indian Mutiny of 1857 was translated into a Bollywood movie Junoon directed by Shyam Benegal. Another short story has been lifted for the making of Bollywood movie ‘The Blue Umbrella’ (2005) directed by Vishal Bharadwaj. Ruskin Bond is the recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award (1992) and the exalted Padma Shri (1999) for English writing in India. This icon of the Indian literary scene will always be venerated for his stupendous contributions to English literature in India.

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