Ruskin Bond is one of India’s most well-known writers. Born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, he grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun and Shimla. In the course of a writing career spanning over seventy years, he has published over a hundred books, including short-story collections, poetry, novels, essays, memoirs and journals, edited anthologies and books for children. The Room on the Roof was his first novel, written when he was seventeen. It received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. He has also received many other awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Many of his stories and novellas including The Blue Umbrella, A Flight of Pigeons and Susanna’s Seven Husbands have been adapted into films. Ruskin lives in Landour, Mussoorie. His other books with HarperCollins include These are a Few of My Favourite Things, Koki’s Song, How to Be a Writer, The Enchanted Cottage and How to Live Your Life.
<p style="margin: 4.3pt 0in; line-height: 17.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">After the first two bestselling books in the How-to series, Ruskin Bond is back with another book filled with his wonderful nuggets of advice, thoughts and brilliant commentary on life. And this time it is on how to be happy! Through the bright, happy pages of this book, Ruskin gives us advice that is sage, doable, relatable and most of all from the heart and the pen of a man who has lived a truly brilliant life. You can’t buy happiness. You can’t get it wholesale or retail or online. It inhabits a small space in your mind, and you must look for it there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 4.3pt 0in; line-height: 17.1pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">This is a book that carries decades of experience on how to be contented, how to lead a fulfilling life, how to inhabit the delightful world of books and stories, and most of all on how to be happy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
