about the author RUSKIN BOND

RUSKIN BOND WAS BORN IN KASAULI HIMACHAL PRADESH, IN 1934. HE WAS BOUGHT UP AT DIFFERENT PLACESS THAT INCLUDED JAMNAGAR, DEHRADUN AND SHIMLA. HE WROTE HIS FIRST NOVEL ROOM ON THE ROOF WHEN HE WAS JUST 17 YEARS OLD FOR WHICH HE RECEIVED THE JOHN LIEWELLYN RHYS MEMORTIAL PRIZE IN 1957RUSKIN BOND HAS NOW BEEN WRITTING FOR MORE THAN SIX DECADED.HIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES----THE NIGHT 

TRIAN AT DEOLI, TIME STOPS AT SHAMLI 

AND OUR TREES STILL GROW IN DEHRA ARE

WORTH READING. REPLETE WITH 

UNASSUMING  HUMOUR AND QUIET WISDOM

HIS STORIES MANIFEST A DEEP LOVE FOR 

NATURE AND PEOPLE.