The recurring themes in his novels and short stories are travelling, adventure, exploring, alienation, loneliness, homelessness, running away from home, human relationships, infatuation, physical attraction, love, friendship, family and parental failure, separation, the pain and pleasure of growing up. He is an intelligent observer of human life and displays the maturity, sophistication, and remarkable ease of a storyteller. Sometimes, one doesn't even notice the simple yet most special things in life which he has the knack of immortalising through his pen. Today, “his tryst with his tireless pen appears to be turning more feisty with each passing day.”1 He expanded the limits of imagination to find something extraordinary in the ordinary. Recognising his pioneering role in the growth of children’s literature, the Indian Council for Child Education and the Sahitya Academy, India’s National Academy of Literature awarded him the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992. He has made a solid contribution to children’s literature in India. In the history of contemporary Indian English writers Ruskin Bond (1934-) has occupied an outstanding position as a novelist and also as a master storyteller.
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