Ruskin Bond’s latest book is a homage to his beloved India – Times of India
Released on January 24, 20222 and published by Penguin Random House India (PRHI), the book is an amalgamation of the “physical and spiritual” attributes of India. It promises to take readers on a journey filled with nostalgia and devotion.
“This little book does not claim to be a political or historical analysis of events, although I have dwelt on the highlights of the last 75 years of India’s progress to maturity as a nation. It is a record of some of my memories and impressions of this unique land — of its rivers and forests, literature and culture, sights, sounds, and colors — an amalgamation of the physical and spiritual,” wrote the 87-year-old author in the introduction of the book.
Commenting on this little but a “great book”, Premanka Goswami, associate publisher at PRHI, said they feel “privileged” to publish the latest work of the famous children’s author.
“From its landscape to its people, culture, flora, and fauna, among others, through this little but a great book Ruskin Bond pays homage to his beloved India on the 75th year of its Independence. We feel privileged to publish this work,” Goswami told news agency PTI.
Born in Mussoorie in 1934, Bond studied at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla. His first novel, ‘The Room on the Roof’, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for ‘Our Trees Still Grow in the Dehra’, his novel in English. Bond has written hundreds of short stories, essays, novels, and books for children. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.
With inputs from PTI
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