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Ruskin, the Delhi walla
Hindustan Times Noida
|May 23, 2025
On the legendary writer's 91st birthday
Ruskin Bond, the writer who lives in the Himalayan foothills, turned 91 this week. Here are 9+1 nuggets on his connections with our Delhi.
1. Although Ruskin's literature is mostly set in the Dehradun-Mussoorie foothills, his childhood was briefly spent in Delhi, during the war years, from 1942 to 44.
2. Following the separation of his parents, little Ruskin moved to the capital to be with his beloved stamp-collector father, who worked in the Codes and Cyphers section at the Air Headquarters of the Royal Air Force. His office was near India Gate.
This story is from the May 23, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Noida.
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