Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 and is an Indian author.
33 Facts About Ruskin Bond
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Ruskin Bond was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.
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Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.
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Ruskin Bond was born on 19th May 1934, in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India.
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Ruskin Bond's father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six.
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Later, Ruskin Bond's father joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and Ruskin Bond along with his mother and sister went to live at his maternal home at Dehradun.
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When Ruskin Bond was eight years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu, Hari.
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Ruskin Bond's father arranged for Ruskin to be brought to New Delhi where he was posted.
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Ruskin Bond was very close to his father and describes this period with his father as one of the happiest times of his life.
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Ruskin Bond was at his boarding school in Shimla and was informed about this tragedy by his teacher.
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Ruskin Bond did his schooling from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1951.
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Ruskin Bond won several writing competitions in the school including the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize.
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Ruskin Bond wrote one of his first short stories, "Untouchable", at the age of sixteen in 1951.
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Ruskin Bond moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching for a publisher.
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Ruskin Bond worked for a few years freelancing from Delhi and Dehradun.
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Ruskin Bond sustained himself financially by writing short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines.
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Ruskin Bond had written Vagrants in the Valley in 1956, as a sequel to The Room on the Roof.
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Ruskin Bond has published his autobiography: Scenes from a Writer's Life describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-India and a further autobiography, Lone Fox Dancing, was published in 2017.
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Ruskin Bond has a brother, William, who lives in Canada.
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Ruskin Bond said that while his autobiographical work, Rain in the Mountains, was about his years spent in Mussoorie, Scenes from a Writer's Life described his first 21 years.
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Ruskin Bond said his favourite genres are essays and short stories.
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Ruskin Bond considers himself a "visual writer" because for short stories, he first imagines it like a film and then notes it down.
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Ruskin Bond feels the unexpected there makes it more exciting.
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Ruskin Bond made his maiden big-screen appearance with ain Vishal Bhardwaj's film 7 Khoon Maaf in 2011, based on his short story Susanna's Seven Husbands.
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Ruskin Bond appears as a Bishop in the movie with Priyanka Chopra playing the title role.
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Ruskin Bond had earlier collaborated with Bharadwaj in The Blue Umbrella which was based on one of his works.
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Ruskin Bond starts living with his guardian Mr John Harrison, who is stern and harsh in his manners.
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Ruskin Bond feels helpless because he knows that if he disobeys Mr John, he will get caned.
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Ruskin Bond doesn't have any real friends and he finds himself very lonely in his guardian's house.
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Ruskin Bond makes friends with some Indian boys in the local marketplace.
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Rusty was created by Ruskin Bond to write stories about his own past.
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Ruskin Bond's first book, The Room on the Roof, which he wrote at the age of 17, was a semi-autobiographical story with Rusty being the protagonist.
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Ruskin Bond was deeply attached to Dehra and most of his stories are inspired by the hills and valleys of this region.