30 Facts About Ruskin Bond

1. Ruskin Bond never got married and lives with his adopted family in Mussoorie.

2. Ruskin Bond has written more than five hundred short stories, novels, and essays.

3. Ruskin Bond started his career by working in a photo studio.

4. Ruskin Bond lives in the European part of Dehradun, but wants to embrace Indian culture and lifestyle.

5. Ruskin Bond was born to Aubrey Bond and Edith Clarke and has a brother named William and a sister named Ellen.

6. Ruskin Bond has celebrated the total number of 84 birthdays till date.

7. Ruskin Bond is an eminent contemporary Indian writer of British descent.

8. Ruskin Bond hides the fact from Mr John and continues to go on secret adventures with them.

9. Ruskin Bond makes friends with some Indian boys in the local marketplace.

10. Ruskin Bond feels helpless because he knows that if he disobeys Mr John, he will get caned.

11. Ruskin Bond starts living with his guardian Mr John Harrison, who is stern and harsh in his manners.

12. Ruskin Bond feels the unexpected there makes it more exciting.

13. Ruskin Bond said his favourite genres are essays and short stories.

14. Ruskin Bond has a brother, William who lives in Canada.

15. Ruskin Bond has published his autobiography: Scenes from a Writer's Life describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-India and very recently "Lone Wolf Dancing".

16. Ruskin Bond had written Vagrants in the Valley in 1956, as a sequel to The Room on the Roof.

17. Ruskin Bond sustained himself financially by writing short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines.

18. Ruskin Bond worked for a few years freelancing from Delhi and Dehradun.

19. Ruskin Bond moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching for a publisher.

20. Ruskin Bond wrote one of his first short stories, "Untouchable", at the age of sixteen in 1951.

21. Ruskin Bond was at his boarding school in Shimla and was informed about this tragedy by his teacher.

22. Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.

23. Ruskin Bond was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, his novel in English.

24. Ruskin Bond lives with his adopted family in Landour, Mussoorie, India.

25. Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 and is an Indian author of British descent.

26. Ruskin Bond was deeply attached to Dehra and most of his stories are inspired by the hills and valleys of this region.

27. Ruskin Bond had earlier collaborated with Bharadwaj in The Blue Umbrella which was based on one of his works.

28. Ruskin Bond appears as a Bishop in the movie with Priyanka Chopra playing the title role.

29. Ruskin Bond made his maiden big screen appearance with a cameo in Vishal Bhardwaj's film 7 Khoon Maaf in 2011, based on his short story Susanna's Seven Husbands.

30. Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent.