Ruskin Bond's Desh: Celebrating Root and Defining Identity

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This book explores the dilemma of Bonds two selves and his existential search for an identity. This exploration, analysed across six chapters, is informed by a variety of postcolonial, historical, informational and critical texts on Bond and Anglo-Indians. Arup Pal focuses on four key literary works of BondThe Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons, Scenes from a Writers Life and A Handful of Nutsfrom the perspective of the authors developing sense of personal, national and cultural identity. He traces the journey that the author and his protagonists embark on in order to seek and ultimately define their sense of being.

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Arup Pals critical appreciation of Ruskin Bond furthers the research on Bondian scholarship by offering a unique point of view. -- Professor Meena G. Khorana

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Arup Pal is Assistant Professor of English at Asutosh College, University of Calcutta.