Is Ruskin Bond was Indian?

Ruskin Bond was born to a British father, Aubrey Alexander Bond, and a supposedly Anglo-Indian mother, Edith Dorothy, at Kasauli Military Hospital in Himachal Pradesh, India on 19 May 1934.

Is Ruskin Bond alive now?

He returned to India in 1955. He now lives in Landour, Mussoorie with his adopted family. At the age of eight, Bond escaped his jail-like boarding school in the hills and went on to live with his father in Delhi.

Who is Ruskin Bond’s adopted family?

Yet the author remains popular. Bond’s latest is his memoir, Lone Fox Dancing. “Even a fox needs a family,” he says, dedicating the book to Rakesh and Beena, the pahari couple whose family he now lives with and has adopted as his own.

Where did Ruskin Bond grow up?

Ruskin Bond, one of India’s best-loved storytellers, was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, and grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, Shimla and Delhi. Since the early 1960s, he has lived in Landour, Mussoorie.