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About the Author

• Ruskin bond is an Indian author of

British origin. a recipient of many prestigious awards including: Sahitya Academy,

Padma shri andPadma Bhushan . The Indian Council for Child Education has
recognised his role in the growth of children's literature in India

• He is a master story teller who wins everyone’s hearts with his genuine concern for
human beings. Simplicity of narration and characterization is the hallmark of

Ruskin Bond’s creativity.

• Bond is a writer of common man with his delights and sorrows and his ordinary

hopes and aspirations.

• It has been rightly commented: Bond fabricates a simple unambitious, innocent

world where man does not cut each other’s throat for his advancement.

• His characters struggle hard for their survival but the ‘weariness, fever and fret’

have not disillusioned them. The plots of his novels and stories emerge from the

silent sympathies of human soul which he has stored up in his consciousness.

• Ruskin Bond, through his creative writings tries to assert strongly that human

beings, inspite of their weaknesses and limitations, are the fantastic creation of God.

• True love, faith and trust have the potential to bring about radical change in the life

of even an incorrigible criminal. The present story focuses on the gradual
transformation in the personality of a thief.