Synopsis Ruskin, Our Enduring Bond is the story of a charmed childhood spent in 'old towering palaces! Full of mystery and romance.' At the age of ten, Ruskin Bond lost his father, but by then Ruskin's father had already passed on to his little son, his love for old friends, old times, old manners, old books and old music. Ruskin was only seventeen when he first started writing to be published in 1951. Even as his first novel The Room on the Roof was being published in England, he returned 'home' to India in 1955. After a few years of wandering in the plains, he scampered up the foothills North of Dehra, and has spent the last forty years in Landour and Mussoorie, living close to nature, amongst good friends and those he loves. And this is where Ruskin--the icon of the mountains and its unsung tales--has written many of his finest stories, essays, poems, novels, and verse.