Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond‚ born 19 May 1934 in Kasauli Distt Solan‚ is an Indian author of Britishdescent.[1] He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children’s authors and a top novelist.In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing‚ for his short stories collection‚ "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra"‚ by the Sahitya Academy‚ India’s National Academy of Literature[2]. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children’s literature. He now lives with
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|Ruskin Bond | |[pic] | |Ruskin Bond in a Meet the Author program at Sharjah International Book Fair‚ | |23 November 2011 | |Born |19 May 1934 (age 78) | | |Kasauli‚ Solan Himachal Pradesh‚ India | |Occupation
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Introduction A lot has been written about Ruskin Bond‚ our very own Indian writer‚ whose writing s span over 50 years. His versatile‚ original and elegant style of writing has made him a favourite to readers around the world. Despite Bond’s British background‚ he writes about India as an insider’s perspective. Having lived the majority of his life in India‚ he knows the country well and writes an authenticity and emotional engagement about the land and the people of the Himalayas and small-town India
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River By Abha Sirohi Research Scholar‚ A.K.P. G. College‚ Hapur (Ghaziabad) .................................................................................................................................................................. Ruskin Bond attempts to analyze human psychology in his short stories; He deals with the elemental and impulsive life of man. He tells the stories objectively and beyond all these things his stories shows goodness of man’s heart and his faith in the Supreme
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Life and career Ruskin Bond was born in a military hospital in [Kasauli] to Edith Clerke and Aubrey Bond. His siblings were Ellen and William. Ruskin’s father was with the Royal Air Force. When Bond was four years old‚ his mother was separated from his father and married a Punjabi-Hindu‚ Mr. Hari‚ who himself had been married once. Bond spent his early childhood in Jamnagar and Shimla. At the age of ten Ruskin went to live at his grandmother’s house in Dehradun after his father’s sudden death in
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The Eyes Have It (also known as The Girl on the Train & The Eyes Are Not Here) is a short story by Ruskin Bond that was originally published in Contemporary Indian English Stories. The narrator of this story‚ a blind man whose eyes were sensitive only to light and darkness‚ was going to Dehradun by train when he met a girl and had a chit-chat with her. It was only after she left and another passenger came into the compartment that the narrator realizes the girl was blind. Up to Rohana‚ the narrator
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The Room On The Roof written by Ruskin Bond The Room On The Roof Top is a story about a 16yr old boy-Rusty. Who himself is English but lives with his caretaker in DehraDun. His caretaker being a typical strict and shrewd guardian‚imposes forced discipline on him. Somehow Rusty meets a bunch of Indian boys who become friends with him and together they explore the streets of Dehra. Living in a very enclosed environment‚ when Rusty gets involved in Indian festivals like HOLI and Diwali....he feels
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Positive liberty[edit] "is involved in the answer to the question ’What‚ or who‚ is the source of control or interference that can determine someone to do‚ or be‚ this rather than that?’ The two questions are clearly different‚ even though the answers to them may overlap."[6] Positive liberty may be understood as self-mastery‚ and includes one’s having a role in choosing who governs the society of which one is a part.[citation needed] Berlin traced positive liberty from Aristotle’s definition of
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CASE STUDY AL RUSKIN PRESENTED BY (GROUP 2) TOULICK KEBBA VIJAY CHANTHY Synopsis Al Ruskin‚ a Harvard Business School graduate who passed out 3 years earlier‚ drops in one Sunday afternoon to see one of his professors. He works for Amalgamated Industries for the last 3 years‚ albeit in various positions and departments. He is currently working in the Market Research Division for the company. He is here to discuss with his professor about his job and the situations and issues that he is facing at
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(Delivered before the Working Men’s Institute‚ at Camberwell.) MY FRIENDS‚ — I have not come among you to-night to endeavour to give you an entertaining lecture; but to tell you a few plain facts‚ and ask you some plain‚ but necessary‚ questions. I have seen and known too much of the struggle for life among our labouring population‚ to feel at ease‚ even under any circumstances‚ in inviting them to dwell on the trivialities of my own studies; but‚ much more‚ as I meet to-night‚ for the first time
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