Ruskin Bond's Desh
Ruskin Bond's Desh

Author: Arup Pal

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9389812631

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This book explores the dilemma of Bond's 'two selves' and his existential search for an identity. This exploration, analysed across six chapters, is informed by a variety of postcolonial, historical, informational and critical texts on Bond and Anglo-Indians. Arup Pal focuses on four key literary works of Bond-The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, Scenes from a Writer's Life and A Handful of Nuts-from the perspective of the author's developing sense of personal, national and cultural identity. He traces the journey that the author and his protagonists embark on in order to seek and ultimately define their sense of being.

Ruskin Bond's World
Ruskin Bond's World

Author: Gulnaz Fatma

Publisher: Loving Healing Press

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1615991999

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ÿRuskin Bond has won the hearts of millions of readers with his countless charming short stories and introspective novels. From biographical tales about acting as a grandfather to children, to tales of unrequited love, the cross-cultural dimensions of Indian society, and the power and beauty of nature, Bond's more than forty novels and short story collections have made him an internationally acclaimed author.ÿ InÿRuskin Bond's World, Indian scholar Gulnaz Fatma, Ph.D. sheds light on one of her country's greatest and most beloved storytellers, tracing the influences in his stories from a childhood in colonial India through his time spent in Britain and his life today among India's hills and mountains. She explores the biographical as well as the imaginary elements of his fiction and explores in detail the themes of nature, children, love, and animals in his novels and short stories. Throughout these pages is revealed Bond's love for humanity in all its variety, from honorable rogues to proud beggars, heartbroken lovers, and wise old men and women.ÿ "Gulnaz has successfully traced major themes in Bond's prolific work under the lenses of her careful examination, proving he is the product of his environment...a sincere study of Ruskin Bond."ÿ --Stephen Gill, Ph.D., author and poet laureate of Ansted Universityÿ "I welcome this long overdue study of one of India's literary shining lights. Ruskin Bond's World opens the door to a deeper understanding of one author's imagination and deepest wisdom."ÿ --Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and award-winning author ofÿThe Gothic Wandererÿ Literary Criticism: Asian - Indicÿ www.ModernHistoryPress.comÿ

The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond
The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond

Author: Meena Khorana

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-05-30

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0313093652

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Ruskin Bond is known internationally as one of India's most prolific writers in English for children, young adults, and adults. This literary biography analyzes the impact of personal, social, geographical, political, and literary influences on Bond's worldview, aesthetic principles, and writings. Connecting the development of Bond's writing career over the past 50 years to the evolution of the publishing industry in India, Khorana details the author's pioneering work in the field of children's and young adult literature, and his contribution to diasporic and postcolonial/post-independence literatures. She concludes that it is Bond's versatile, original, and elegant writing in a variety of genres that continue to endear him to readers around the world. According to the author, despite Bond's British background, he does not write about India from a Eurocentric perspective. Having lived the majority of his life in India, he knows the country as an insider, writing with an authenticity and emotional engagement about the land and the people of the Himalayas and small-town India. Khorana analyzes his novels and short stores, and highlights his juxtaposition of his protagonists' individual dramas against larger social, moral, and metaphysical issues. In addition, she reveals how the autobiographical and regional elements in Bond's work provide insight into universal themes such as the tension between past and present, city life versus rural values, the dignity of ordinary folk, preservation of the environment, and living in harmony with nature.

The Encyclopedic Vision of Ruskin Bond
The Encyclopedic Vision of Ruskin Bond

Author: Ishrat Ali Lalljee

Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers

Published: 2022-05-16

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13:

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The book reviews a range of the writings of Ruskin Bond spanning over six decades, from his debut making novella, The Room on the Roof in 1956 to A Little Book about India in 2022. It provides a bird’s eye view of Mr. Bond’s compendious vision as a Nature Mystic, Metaphysic, Romantic, Environmentalist, Humanist, Historian, Biographer and Raconteur, among others. It also incorporates vignettes of the life and experiences of the author, besides his beliefs and philosophy. The book is an enhanced and enriched adaptation of a Doctoral Research which contains substantial inputs from Ruskin Bond himself and these augment the authenticity and depth of the book and gives it a first person feel.

Bond's Bonding With Mother Nature
Bond's Bonding With Mother Nature

Author: Rajshree Naidu

Publisher: BFC Publications

Published: 2022-12-17

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 935632350X

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Dr. Rajshree Naidu is born on 23rd Oct. 1971. She is an HOD of English Department in a renowned Chhattisgarh University. She did B.Sc. (Bio) & M.A. English literature. She has done her Ph.D., English literature on Ruskin Bond. From the very childhood her inclination was to be with mother nature so she started planting tree and watching them grow. Being a bioscience student the authoress became very much closer to nature. It inspired her towards the creation, so she started penning down her experiences in poems, write ups articles in local news Hindi, English paper. She says she learnt a lot from mother nature. She is an excellent oratoer and work with Akashwani Raipur Radio as a guest speaker. She conducts cultural and traditional programmes for varios department of Chhatisgarh govt. She is a versatile personality, she not only enjoys the writing but inspire others through her distinctive style of admiration towards Mother Nature. She chose to do work on Ruskin Bond the true son of Mother Nature; she expressed ample of inspiration through the stories of Ruskin Bond. Dr. Rajshree Naidu believes in the value of colours in life. She says “Life is the best friend and nature is the best teacher to play and learn with. According to her find a right path of the life is an ultimate goal. Live the life at its fullest but not alone ---- enjoy its noblest form along with others and for the sake of the universe. This is the definition of humanity it preaches the nobility, humility to young generation and takes blessings from our elders. “Be sensible & screne like Mother Nature.

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author: Eugene Benson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 2597

ISBN-13: 1134468474

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Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.