GREAT WRITER -RUSKIN BOND

Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. ... The Indian Council for Child Education has recognised his role in the growth of children's literature in India. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, his novel in English.
Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 in Kasauli, Punjab, British India, to a British couple, Edith Clarke and Aubrey Bond. His father served with the Royal Air Force from 1939 to 1944. His parents separated when he was young and his mother soon remarried a Punjabi man.
He is an eminent contemporary Indian writer of British descent. He prolifically authored inspiring children's books and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award to honor his work of literature.
Besides , he was honoured with the padam shri in 1999.Awarded the Padam Bhushan in 2014.

Ruskin Bond’s writing career spans over five decades over the course of which he experimented with different genres including fiction, essays, autobiographical, non-fiction, romance, and books for children. He has authored over 500 short stories, essays and novels, more than 50 books for children, and two volumes of autobiography, ‘Scenes from a Writer's Life’ and ‘The Lamp is Lit’.
Some of his works have been adapted for the television and films. Bollywood director Vishal Bhardwaj made a film based on his novel for children, ‘The Blue Umbrella’ in 2007. The movie won the National Award for Best Children's film. The Hindi film ‘7 Khoon Maaf’, is based on Bond’s short story ‘Susanna's Seven Husbands’.

Ruskin Bond has been living in Landour, a British India-era cantonment town just above Mussoorie, since 1964. Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Macondo was a constructed place. But Landour is an important part of Bond's stories.

Best short stories by Ruskin Bond