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Ruskin Bond occupies an outstanding position among the contemporary Indian English writers. Bond's world is the world of the poor and the middle class people. Bond's greatness can be seen in the originality and naturalness of these characters. He is the only Indian writer in English to establish a reputation mainly on the basis of his achievement as a short story writer. He is not happy to describe the things as they happened. He examines his characters from the inside and analyses how their minds work. He is a front ranking fiction writer of Indian English writing. In course of a writing career spanning over five decades. He has written more than a hundred short stories, two full-length novels, three novellas and a number of essays. He has got many awards during his writing career. He is considered a pioneer of children literature in India. He came close to children's literature. Since Ruskin Bond liked his boyhood very much there for all his children stories whether autobiographical expressed his longing for a happy childhood. He likes children because they are more frank, open minded and emotional.