Rusty and his Life : Lone Fox Dancing
Ruskin Bond, the reclusive writer living in Dhera Dun, is among India's best loved writers in English. In today's identity conscious age when projection of fractured and imagined historical injustice, is the stuff of post colonial literature, it is refreshing to find a writer whose transparent prose stands testimony to a life well lived and with with absolutely no bitterness real or imagined against the people he has encountered in his life. This itself is a marked change from the vain self congratulatory autobiographies that flood the market. Indian bureaucrats who lived through the terrible UPA years have become autobiographers par excellence in order perhaps to exculpate the sins of omission and commission. Ruskin Bond stands out as one who has reflected on his life, learned fromit and gets ready for the inevitable, he has found peace within him. All this is amply clear from the Lone Fox Dancing Ruskin Bond was born to English parents ...