{"id":4185,"date":"2019-12-18T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2019-12-18T08:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:48:15","slug":"ruskin-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/ruskin-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruskin Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unlike other kids, my childhood had no love for reading.  I was happy roaming in nature, playing cricket or fighting. A somber version of Huckleberry Finn. Off late I have got into the habit of reading  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruskin_Bond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ruskin Bond (opens in a new tab)\">Ruskin Bond<\/a> and have been enjoying it. A few of my friends told me Ruskin books are for toddlers.  What I liked about Ruskin Bond&#8217;s writing is simplicity. I put him in the same category as Roald Dahl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have not been to Nainital, Dehradoon or places Ruskin Bond mentions in his book but makes me feel I am there, walking on the streets or in the wild via him. His writing takes me back to my childhood, makes me think and feel my past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some other Indian writers like Khuswant Singh, R K Narayan, and Satyajit Ray follows the same style. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One requires complete idleness to craft a masterpiece. We need to look back to our past, dream and imagine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike other kids, my childhood had no love for reading. I was happy roaming in nature, playing cricket or fighting. A somber version of Huckleberry Finn. Off late I have got into the habit of reading Ruskin Bond and have been enjoying it. A few of my friends told me Ruskin books are for toddlers. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/ruskin-bond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruskin Bond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,100],"tags":[804],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}