Ruskin Bond is understood across the world as certainly one of India's such a lot prolific writers in English for kids, teenagers, and adults. This literary biography analyzes the impression of private, social, geographical, political, and literary affects on Bond's worldview, aesthetic rules, and writings. Connecting the advance of Bond's writing occupation during the last 50 years to the evolution of the publishing in India, Khorana info the author's pioneering paintings within the box of kid's and younger grownup literature, and his contribution to diasporic and postcolonial/post-independence literatures. She concludes that it really is Bond's flexible, unique, and stylish writing in quite a few genres that proceed to endear him to readers round the world.

According to the writer, regardless of Bond's British historical past, he doesn't write approximately India from a Eurocentric standpoint. Having lived the vast majority of his lifestyles in India, he understands the rustic as an insider, writing with an authenticity and emotional engagement in regards to the land and the folks of the Himalayas and small-town India. Khorana analyzes his novels and brief shops, and highlights his juxtaposition of his protagonists' person dramas opposed to better social, ethical, and metaphysical matters. additionally, she finds how the autobiographical and neighborhood components in Bond's paintings supply perception into common issues resembling the strain among previous and current, urban existence as opposed to rural values, the consideration of standard people, upkeep of our environment, and residing in concord with nature.