RUSKIN BOND

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BORN- 19 MAY 1934 PUNJAB, BRITISH INDIA
OCCUPATION-WRITER
NATIONALITY- INDIAN
PERIOD- 1951 - PRESENT
 RUSKIN BOND WAS BORN IN KASAULI, HIMACHAL
PRADESH, IN 1934, AND GREW UP IN JAMNAGAR
(GUJRAT), DEHRADUN, AND SHIMLA. IN COURSE OF A
WRITING CAREER SPANNING FORTY YEARS, HE HAS
WRITTEN OVER A HUNDRED SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS,
NOVELS, AND MORE THAN THIRTY BOOKS OF
CHILDREN. THREE COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES, THE
NIGHT TRAIN AT DEOLI, TIME STOPS AT SHAMLI,
AND OUR TREES STILL GROW IN DEHRA HAVE BEEN
PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN INDIA. HE HAS ALSO EDITED
TWO ANTHOLOGIES, THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN
GHOST STORIES, AND THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN
RAILWAY STORIES.
 Personal life
BOND WAS BORN TO EDITH CLERKE AND AUBREY BOND.
EDITH CLERKE WAS WORKING WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
THAT TIME. AT THE AGE OF 4, BOND`S MOTHER AUBREY
BOND REMARRIED A PUNJABI-HINDU CALLED HARI AND
BOND WENT TO LIVE WITH HIS NEW FATHER, SPENDING HIS
CHILDHOOD IN JAMNAGAR AND SHIMLA.
TEN, FOR A FEW YEARS, BOND WENT TO LIVE WITH HIS
GRANDMOTHER IN DEHRADUN, AFTER THE SUDDEN DEATH
OF HIS FATHER DUE TO MALARIA. HE DID MOST OF HIS
SCHOOLING FROM THE BISHOP COTTON SCHOOL, SHIMLA.
DURING THIS TIME, HE WON MANY ACCOLADES IN WRITING
LIKE THE IRWIN DIVINITY PRIZE AND THE HAILEY LITERATURE
PRIZE.
 family

FATHER- AUBREY BOND

MOTHER- EDITH CLERKE
BROTHER- WILLIAM BOND
SISTER- ELLEN BOND
HIS FATHER DIED OF MALARIA IN 1944, AT
WHICH POINT BOND WENT TO LIVE WITH HIS
GRANDMOTHER IN DEHRADUN, INDIA. FOR
THE REST OF HIS CHILDHOOD, HE WAS
RAISED BY HIS MOTHER AND STEPFATHER.
 WORK AND CAREER

BOND STARTED DISPLAYING HIS LITERARY TALENT IN

ENGLAND. HE WROTE HIS FIRST NOVEL NAMED ROOM ON
THE ROOF WHEN HE WAS ALL OF 17 YEARS. THE BOOK
MADE HIM WIN PRESTIGIOUS JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE
THAT IS AWARDED TO BRITISH COMMONWEALTH WRITERS
WHO ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 30. THE BOOK WAS
PRIMARILY BASED IN AND AROUND HIMALAYAS AND WAS
SUCCESSFUL IN CAPTURING ITS BEAUTY AND ETHOS IN A
MANNER THAT WAS NEVER TRIED BEFORE. THE INSPIRATION
OF HIS WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE HILL STATIONS AT THE
FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS. IT WAS WHERE HE SPENT
MOST OF HIS CHILDHOOD. HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK
CALLED RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS MAJORLY INCLUDES HIS
LIFE SPENT IN MUSSOORIE.
 AWARDS

JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE IN 1957

SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD IN 1992
PADMA SHRI IN 1999
PADMA BHUSHAN IN 2014
 Novels and stories

WITH LOVE FROM HILLS, THE ROOM ON THE ROOF,

VAGRANTS IN THE VALLEY, RUSTY RUNS AWAY, THE
BLUE UMBRELLA, DELHI IS NOT FAR, ANIMAL
STORIES, FUNNY SIDE UP, ANGRY RIVER, TIME
STOPS AT SHAMLI, A TIGER IN THE HOUSE, FOUR
FEATHERS, SCHOOL DAYS, THE TIGER IN THE
TUNNEL, MR. OLIVER'S DIARY.
ALL ARE THOSE STORIES WHICH BOND GOT
SOMETHING ACHIEVING.
 filmography
1978 HINDI FILM JUNOON IS BASED ON BOND'S HISTORICAL
NOVELLA A FLIGHT OF PIGEONS. THE RUSTY STORIES HAVE BEEN
ADAPTED INTO A DOORDARSHAN TV SERIES "EK THA RUSTY".
SEVERAL STORIES HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED IN THE SCHOOL
CURRICULUM IN INDIA, INCLUDING "THE NIGHT TRAIN AT DEOLI",
"TIME STOPS AT SHAMLI" AND OUR TREES STILL GROW IN DEHRA.
IN 2007, THE BOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR VISHAL BHARDWAJ MADE
A FILM BASED ON HIS POPULAR NOVEL FOR CHILDREN, THE
BLUE UMBRELLA.
BOND MADE HIS MAIDEN BIG SCREEN APPEARANCE WITH A
CAMEO IN A FILM 7 KHOON MAAF, BASED ON HIS SHORT
STORY SUSANNA'S SEVEN HUSBANDS. BOND APPEARS AS A
BISHOP IN THE MOVIE WITH PRIYANKA CHOPRA PLAYING THE
TITLE ROLE. BOND HAD EARLIER COLLABORATED WITH HIM IN
THE THE BLUE UMBRELLA WHICH WAS ALSO BASED ON ONE OF
HIS WORKS.