SynopsisRuskin bond, india’s most loved author, is known for his innumerable stories, essays, poems and novels. A wordsmith, his life, work and philosophy open a window to a myriad world where solitude sits by tranquillity to ruminate time now and then. in The Beauty of All My Days, ruskin opens a window to his relationships: his friends, his love—unsaid and unrequited, his parents’ difficult marriage, his passage to england, his meeting with diana Athill and the making of his first book The Room on the Roof and many other journeys—real as well as imaginary—that continue to remain untold and therefore unknown. oneiric and candid, this memoir—with the rarest of photographs—is going to be one of the most sought-after books of our times
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About the author
Ruskin Bond 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.
He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.
In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature.
He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.
