POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON , RUSKIN BOND.

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Ruskin Bond. Man in a polo shirt. Ruskin Bond was born on 19th May 1934 in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Later, Ruskin's father joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and Ruskin along with his mother and sister went to live at his maternal home at Dehradun. Shortly after that, he was sent to a boarding school in Mussoorie. When Ruskin was eight years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu, Hari..

abstract. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER. He did his schooling from Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1951. He won several writing competitions in the school including the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize. He wrote one of his first short stories, "Untouchable", at the age of sixteen in 1951. Following his high school education he went to his aunt's home in the Channel Islands ( U.K. ) in 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years. He worked for a few years freelancing from Delhi and Dehradun. He sustained himself financially by writing short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. On his youth, he said, "Sometimes I got lucky and some [work] got selected and I earned a few hundred rupees. Since I was in my 20s and didn't have any responsibilities I was just happy to be doing what I loved doing best”. In 1963, he went to live in Mussoorie because besides liking the place, it was close to the editors and publishers in Delhi..

Since 1963 he has lived as a freelance writer in Mussoorie, a town in the Himalayan foothills in Uttarakhand where he lives with his adoptive family in Landour , Mussoorie's Ivy Cottage, which has been his home since 1980. [7 Asked what he likes the most about his life, he said, "That I have been able to write for so long. I started at the age of 17 or 18 and I am still writing. If I were not a professional writer who was getting published I would still write." In his essay, "Scenes from a Writer's Life" , he explains his Indian identity, "Race did not make me one. Religion did not make me one. But history did. And in the long run, it's history that counts.”.