The Best of Ruskin Bond
A collection of best Short Stories selected by himself
You might have herd about Ruskin Bond , but have you ever read any of his book or short story before? If not then here is a book to start reading his amazing stories.
They are very close to our nostalgic and lovely feeling of nature , childhood. Careful, some expressions might make your eyes wet or you might even shed few tears though that will not be tears of sadness
Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (born May 19, 1934) is an Indian author of British descent and the father of James Bond, one of the most famous fictional characters in literary history.
He has written many inspiring children's
books and has been recognised by the Indian Council for Child Education
for his role in the growth of children's literature in India. The
Sahitya Akademi Prize is awarded to a literary work for its contribution
to the development of children's and youth literature. He was also
awarded the Sahitiesa Academy Award for "The Trees Still Growing in
Dehra" and received the Sahityanath Kalyan Award, India's highest
literary award, in 2006.
Born on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, India,
he is the son of Edith Clarke and Aubrey Bond, the eldest of four
children of the famous Bond family.
His father served in the Royal Air Force
and frequently traveled from place to place with his son, and he did
various jobs to make a living. After a high school education, he went to
London, stayed there for two years and then returned to India. While in
London, he began to write a novel about an orphaned Anglo-Indian boy
named Rusty.
He wrote his first novel at the age of
19 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, which is awarded to authors
under 30 from the British Commonwealth. The following year, 1957, H.E.
won his second prize for his novel and his third prize in 1958.
Ruskin Bond, best known as a children's
author, has had his works filmed in films such as Junoon, directed by
Shyam Benegal, as well as in the film adaptation of his novels.
Amrita Bose chatted with the author
about his life, his children's books and the film version of Junoon.
Ruskin Bond was born Aubrey Bond, son of the late Sir John Bond and his
wife Elizabeth Bond.
His father joined the Royal Air Force in
1939 and taught English at the Princess's Jamnagar Palace. Ruskin moved
with his mother and sister to his family home in Dehradun, where he
lived with his sister Ellen until he was six. Edith Clarke Aubrey Bond
was born in London to Sir John Bond and Elizabeth Bond, daughter of the
late Sir James Bond.
When Bond was eight, his mother
separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu, Hari, who
separated from her father. Ruskin lived with his sister Ellen in his
grandmother's house in Dehradun until he was six years old.
The first five chapters of Khorana's
book follow the lives of Ruskin and Bond, followed by the second five
and then the last five in the first half of the book. We see how the
young Ruskins return to the foothills of the Himalayas, where they have
remained more or less ever since.
Bond's work reflects the changing
political, social, and cultural aspects of India, whether it was the
rise of the Hindu nationalist movement in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries or the emergence of a mixed Anglo-Indian identity
and the way they dealt with it and persisted in their tireless efforts
to survive as writers.
Bond said that while his
autobiographical work "Rains in the Mountains" is about his years in
Mussoorie, "Behind the Scenes of a Writer's Life" describes his first 21
years in India.
At the center are Bond's attempts to
find his place in the world and his desire to return to India,
especially Doon. Ruskin Bond was born in British India as the son of
Edith Clarke and Aubrey Alexander Bond and completed his schooling at
the Royal College of Art in London and subsequently at Oxford
University. Padma Bhushan, "Behind the Scenes of a Writer's Life," is
the first biography of an Indian author of British descent who began
weaving stories at the age of 17.
After moving to the UK for a few years
after leaving school, he returned to India and eventually settled in
Dehradun. Rusty spent most of his early years in his Indian hometown of
Calcutta, a small town in the heart of the country.
Ruskin Bond is deeply connected to Dehra
and most of his stories are inspired by the hills and valleys of the
region. Although the children's book author is the day he is usually
associated with, Bond didn't start writing for children until he was in
his 40s. Whether you want to write for adults or children depends
entirely on your mood, but I did not start writing about children in my
forts until the late 1970s.
Ruskin Bond's relationship with
Bollywood began when spirited feminist author Ismat Chughtai recommended
his novella "The Flight of the Doves" to film director Shyam Benegal.
In 1978 Benegal made the book the basis for his film "Bhagat Singh," the
first film in the Bond series.
In 2005, Bollywood director Vishal
Bhardwaj made his first film, "The Blue Umbrella," based on Ruskin's
novella "Bond and the Seven Husbands," a story about Bond's relationship
with Susanna, the protagonist's wife. He then made a film with the same
name as "Blue rebrella" and later made the Bond story "Susanna and
Seven Husbands." In 2010 Ruskin's Bond made his first appearance in the
film adaptation of "Virgin Bond," based on the novel by his friend and
co-author Shashi Tharoor.
The Book
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Here is the book cover total length is 490 pages. And has short lovely stories minimum of three pages. Its so easy to read and understand. Best book for new readers
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