Indian Author Ruskin Bond Celebrates 90th Birthday With New Book | SoSouth

Celebrated Indian author Ruskin Bond turned 90 on Sunday, May 19. Since his debut novel "The Room on the Roof" in 1956, Bond has authored over 500 short stories, essays and novellas and several books for children. Bond has received numerous awards and honours, including Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in 1992, Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. #literature #indianliterature #indianauthor #indianauthors #ruskin_bond #ruskinbond #childrensbooks #author #padmashri #padmabhushan #authorvlog
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[@divyanandini6683]

Confused we are, so much so that we term Rishi Sunak as an Indian and Ruskin Bond as a foreigner. Best wishes to you Sir.

[@locusstandi8329]

Many famous Brits were born in India. Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell etc. It doesn't make them Indian. Even the Brits who were born brought up and died in India have a separate exclusive graveyards and cemeteries only for Brits.

[@siddharthshekhar909]

I am a big fan of yours , sir. I own many great books written by you. My wish is to meet you one day, even for five minutes. Pray 🙏 for a long life for you.

[@AKAMASTRIXX]

stay happy ruskin bond sir great to have you such a nice person hope to meet you someday for a cup of tea and for little chit chat

[@Himarius]

Truly a legend...

[@pritishpadhy2603]

Long life to you Sir🙏🏼

[@maneeshahooja]

Happy birthday!

[@ramamurthykamaraju6952]

Happy birthday sir😬❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@user-qx4ky3kv9h]

...........❤

[@locusstandi8329]

Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell and many famous Brits were born in India but it doesn't make them Indian.

[@siddharthshekhar909]

He has lived in India all his life. He understands the essence of India , the Indian pysche and Indian society. He is not like other British writers you mentioned. You can see his love for this land in his books which I'm sure you have not read.

[@locusstandi8329]

​@@siddharthshekhar909 Ruskin Bond's stories were part of both ICSE and CBSE curricullum in my time. If he loved this country he'd be incorporating Indian culture and history in his writing with truly Indian characters instead of portraying India through an Anglican and Anglicized lens. with Anglo-Indian characters. Many of his books and stories make one feel the British Raj never ended and the British never left India. He's lived in a 'hill station' built by the British for the British for 50 plus years. Nothing Indian about him. Dale Kennedy observes about the Indian context, "the hill station (...) was seen as an exclusive British preserve: here it was possible to render the Indian into an outsider" the British "sought further distance from what they saw as a disease-ridden land by [escaping] to the Himalayas in the north". Other factors included anxieties about the dangers of life in India, among them "fear of degeneration brought on by too long residence in a debilitating land". The hill stations were meant to reproduce the home country, illustrated in Lord Lytton's statement about Ootacamund in the 1870s as having "such beautiful English rain, such delicious English mud."

[@jintugoswami477]

@@siddharthshekhar909Very true

[@locusstandi8329]

If you're Indian why do Brits who were born, brought up and died in India have have separate exclusive graveyards and cemeteries only for Brits.

[@knc2111]

I am a diehard BJP supporter and I like Ruskin Bond because he is a fabulous author.I hate Gandhi & Nehru for being british stooges.Period.

[@manoharmenon1869]

Please get rid of this awful soundtrack