In his latest book entitled ‘Small Indian Book: Celebrating 75 Years of Independence’, the author of Ruskin Ruskin Bonds, while utilizing the memory and impression of India itself, paying respect for the country who has been his home for more than eight decades.
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Released on January 24, 20222 and published by Indian Random House Penguin (PRHI), this book is a merging of Indian “physical and spiritual” attributes.
This promised to bring readers on a trip filled with nostalgia and devotion.
“This little book does not claim to be a political or historical analysis of events, even though I have lived in the highlights of the last 75 years of Indian progress to maturity as a nation.
This is a note about some of my memories and impressions about this unique land – from rivers and forests , literature and culture, scenery, sound, and color – physical and spiritual merging, “87-year-old writer in the introduction of this book.
Commenting this is a bit but the “big book”, Pradada Goswami, an associate publisher in Prhi, said they felt “special” to publish the latest famous children’s writers.
“From the landscape with its people, culture, flora, and fauna, among others, through this little but the big book Ruskin bonds paid homage to her favorite India in the 75th year of independence.
We are honored to publish this work,” Goswami told the news agency PTI.
Born in Mussoorie in 1934, bonds studied at the cotton bishop school in Shimla.
His first novel, ‘room on the roof’, received a prize of John Llewellyn Rhys in 1957.
He was awarded the Award of Sahitya Academy in 1992 because our trees were still growing in Dehra ‘, his novel in English.
Bond has written hundreds of short stories, essays, novels, and books for children.
He was awarded Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014.
With input from pti
The new book Ruskin Bond is a tribute to India
