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Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for his novel Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He has also received other honors like the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Bond received his education in boarding schools in Mussoorie and Shimla. He published his first novel The Room on the Roof in 1956 and moved to London to pursue writing. After its success, he used the proceeds to return to India and settle in Dehradun. Some of Bond's other notable works include Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, The Blue Umbrella, and The Night Train at Deoli.

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Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for his novel Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He has also received other honors like the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Bond received his education in boarding schools in Mussoorie and Shimla. He published his first novel The Room on the Roof in 1956 and moved to London to pursue writing. After its success, he used the proceeds to return to India and settle in Dehradun. Some of Bond's other notable works include Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, The Blue Umbrella, and The Night Train at Deoli.

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Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934).

He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in


1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, his novel in English. He was awarded
the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.[1]

EDUCATION
Ruskin's father joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and Ruskin along with his mother
and sister went to live at his maternal home at Dehradun.
Shortly after that he was sent to a boarding school in Mussourie. When Bond was
eight years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu,
Hari. His father arranged for Ruskin to be brought to New Delhi where he was
posted. He was very close to his father and describes this period with his father as
one of the happiest times of his life. When he was ten, his father died of malaria,
while he was posted in Calcutta. Ruskin was at his boarding school in Shimla and
was informed about this tragedy by his teacher. He was thoroughly heartbroken.
Later, he was raised by his mother and stepfather who lived in Dehradun.
He did his schooling from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated
in 1950. He won several writing competitions in the school including the Irwin Divinity
Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize. He wrote one of his first short stories,
"Untouchable", at the age of sixteen in 1951.
Following his high school education he went to his aunt's home in the Channel
Islands (U.K.) in 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years. In London,
he started writing his first novel, The Room on the Roof, the semi-autobiographical
story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty; he did various jobs for a living.
It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, (1957) awarded to a British Commonwealth
writer under 30. He moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching
for a publisher. After getting it published, Bond used the advance money to pay the
sea passage to Bombay and settle in Dehradun.[4]
BOOKS WRITTEN

The Room on the Roof

2 The Blue Umbrella

3 Time Stops at Shamli Ruskin Bond

4 Roads to Mussoorie

5 The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories

6 Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas


7 Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra

8 A Book of Simple Living

9 Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

10 Getting Granny's Glasses

Five notable works

1 .The room on the roof

2. Our trees still grow in Dehra

3. The blue umbrella

4. A flight of pigeons

5. The night train at Deoli

6.A Handful of Nuts


7. Rusty, the Boy from the Hills

QUOTES
1 “and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”

2 “To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”

3 “People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are
alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.

Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers
toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is
easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.”

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