Till now he has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novels and over thirty children’s books. His essays and articles were published in numerous magazines, such as The Pioneer, The Leader, The Tribune and The Telegraph. Later, he relocated to a town in the Himalayan foothills, Mussoorie, where he pursued freelance writing since 1963. Subsequently, he returned to India and worked as a journalist in Delhi and Dehradun for a few years. Its success gave him an impetus to write its sequel Vagrants in the Valley. He was awarded John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial prize for his first novel. It was not published until he was twenty-one. The book has a strong autobiographical element as it’s based on his actual experiences living in a small rented room on the roof in Dehradun.

He runs away to live with his friends as he escapes the tyranny of his strict guardian. The novel charts the life of an orphaned Anglo-Indian teenager. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë and Rudyard Kipling.Īt the age of 17 in London, he began to write his first novel, The Room on the Roof. Therefore, he found solace in reading books that habit was also inculcated in him by his father.

He chose the path of becoming an earnest writer that his father wished him to follow. Despite his suffering and lonely childhood, Bond developed an optimistic outlook on life. The first twenty years of his life groomed him to be a good writer as it developed his personality in such a way.

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