Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (1934- ) Ruskin bond is an Indian author of British descent. The Indian Council of Child Education, has recognized his role in the growth of children’s literature in India. He got Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1992, for “Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra”, his published works in English. It contains 14 stories. He was awarded Padma Shree Award in the year 1999 and Padma Bhusan in 2014. Bond said: “The past is always with us, for it feeds the present”. Bond’s “A Fight of Pigeons” novel set in 1857 about Ruth Labadoor and her family of Hindus and Muslims is adapted into film “Junoon”. Important Works of Ruskin Bond The Room of the Roof (1956) The Blue Umbrella (1974) The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories (1988) The Best of Ruskin Bond (2000 A Flight of Pigeons (2003) Out Trees still Grow in Dehra (1991) Out of Darkness (Lyrical Poem).