RUSKIN BOND

[*AdiTi*]

Ruskin Bond is known internationally as one of India's most prolific writers in English for children, young adults, and adults. This literary biography analyzes the impact of personal, social, geographical, political, and literary influences on Bond's worldview, aesthetic principles, and writings. Connecting the development of Bond's writing career over the past 50 years to the evolution of the publishing industry in India, Khorana details the author's pioneering work in the field of children's and young adult literature, and his contribution to diasporic and postcolonial/post-independence literatures. She concludes that it is Bond's versatile, original, and elegant writing in a variety of genres that continue to endear him to readers around the world.
 
According to the author, despite Bond's British background, he does not write about India from a Eurocentric perspective. Having lived the majority of his life in India, he knows the country as an insider, writing with an authenticity and emotional engagement about the land and the people of the Himalayas and small-town India. Khorana analyzes his novels and short stores, and highlights his juxtaposition of his protagonists' individual dramas against larger social, moral, and metaphysical issues. In addition, she reveals how the autobiographical and regional elements in Bond's work provide insight into universal themes such as the tension between past and present, city life versus rural values, the dignity of ordinary folk, preservation of the environment, and living in harmony with nature.
 
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Children of the British Raj
At "Home" in England? A Postcolonial Dilemma
Back in Dehra: "The People and Places I Have Known"
The Transitional Years: 1959-1963
"The Great Escape to the Mountains"
A Long Summer Afternoon: The Charmed World of Childhood
The Duality of Nature; Poems and Stories for Children
The Mountains Are Kind to Writers

[*AdiTi*]

this is Mr. Ruskin Bond

[*AdiTi*]

his writng style is very good. it gives a flight to our imagination....
most of his stories are filled with the chilling cold, hilly regions of lush green, trains moving from between the mountains.......

[*AdiTi*]

some of the most popular stories wriiten by him are:
the eyes have it
the thief
the night train at deoli
the photograph
my first love
a guardian angel
the kitemaker
my fathers trees in dehra
the leopard
the man who was kipling
the last time i saw delhi
from small beginnings
would astley return
the funeral
the room of many colors
the girl from copenhegan
tribute to a dead friend
a job well done
the trouble with jinns
he said it with arsenic
hanging at the mangotope
a face in the dark

[*AdiTi*]

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if u like Mr.Ruskin Bond

[MaxX]

interesting, good posts 

[♥♥‎ prinCess_oFhartz ♥♥]

interestingly done aditi...
good post...!
 

[sakura♥]

i loved his story 'the cherry tree'

[JUBIN]

I've read "The Leopard" & "A face in the dark".

nice post 

[*ANGEL*]

  ...and he's such a darling