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The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond (Hardcover, New)
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The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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