There couldn't be a more perfect person to tell us how to be what we want to be than Ruskin Bond! Ruskin Bond followed his passion for writing, and did he wanted to and became what he wanted to be - a writer!" I was determined to be a writer. It was the thing I did best. And shouldn't our lives be directed towards doing what we do best?"
Ruskin Bond is one of India's most well-known writers. Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, he grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun and Shimla. In the course of a writing career spanning over seventy years, he has published over a hundred books, including short-story collections, poetry, novels, essays, memoirs and journals.