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DB Students Bond with Ruskin
By C. M. Paul
Kolkata, Nov. 17. Some 650 students of DB Park Circus had the privilege of interacting with the legendary author Ruskin Bond on his visit to Kolkata. Students of class 6-8 gave the author a standing ovation as he took stage escorted by Rector Fr Siby and Vice-principal Fr John.
``I see intelligence pouring forth,`` exclaimed 75 year old Bond looking around the packed auditorium. ``It is only hard work and talent,`` said Bond revealing the secret formula for his success. After reading a couple of his poems, he fielded questions from some 100 eager students who flanked the side isles of the auditorium during the hour-long session. Starmark Kolkata facilitated the event making Bond books available for sale. Students grabbed the opportunity to collect priced Bond autographs.
[Clockwise] Bond reading poetry; students grab a Bond book; Bond with Principal and vice-principal; Bond mobbed by autograph seekers. Photo by C. M. Paul
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Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934, is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children`s authors and a top novelist. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children`s literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Mussoorie, India.

Bond Unfolding
Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh). His father was Aubrey Alexander Bond who served in the RAF during World War II. He had one sister and brother - Ellen and William Bond. When the writer was 8, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi-Hindu Mr. Hari who himself was married once. At the age of ten Ruskin went to his grandmother`s in Dehra because of his father`s sudden death due to frequent bouts of malaria and jaundice. He has lived in Landour since the 1960s, having previously also lived, as a child and young man, in Shimla, Jamnagar, Mussoorie, Dehradun, and London.
Bond studied in Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, one of the oldest boarding schools in Asia. The school has produced several writers. Bond was one of the most successful writer`s.

Bond Books
Most of his writings show a strong influence from the social life in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. His first novel was ``The Room On the Roof``, written when he was 17 and published when he was 21 was partly based on the experiences at Dehra in his small rented room on the roof and his friends. The ``Room On the Roof`` brought him the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novellas (including Vagrants in The Valley and The Flight of Pigeons) and more than 30 books for children. He has also published two volumes of autobiography. Scenes from a Writer`s Life, which describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-India, and The Lamp is Lit, a collection of essays and episodes from his journal.

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