Ruskin Bond

Author : Deshna Surana

Ruskin bondwas born in 1934 kausauali India. He wrote his first novel -The cherry the roomof roof. The umbrella etc. He was a 17years old and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for it. He has written over a hundred short stories poems and essays and about thirty books for children. A few of his well known works are. Panther moon and time stops at shamuli. He has received sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India.

Ruskin Bond is one of India's most loved children's writer. In a writing career spanning over six decades, he has written over 500 short stories and novels including the much-acclaimed 'Room on the Roof', and 'Vagrants in the Valley'. His stories 'The Blue Umbrella', 'A Flight of Pigeons' and 'Susanna's Seven Husbands' have also been adapted into successful Bollywood films. He received the Sahitya Academy Award in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

Only a child can marvel at the colours of a butterfly, or at the pearl-like droplets of dew on fresh green leaves, in a way that no adult can. A child's ears can pick the chirp of a cricket in the middle of a thunderstorm, and can see the beauty of a lily blooming in the middle of a murky pond. With a mind that is not clouded by facts accrued from knowledge of the world around it, a child finds delight and astonishment in the tiniest fragments of nature, which an educated adult might routinely find mundane.

But rarely, you come across an adult, who still has an inquisitive streak, who still finds delight in the small pleasures of life and who can marvel at Nature's mystical ways, much like a child. And if that adult is blessed with the power to translate his musings to magically-spun stories, he must be Ruskin Bond.