All That Could Have Been
About the AuthorRuskin Bond has written novels, memoirs, short story collections and books of essays and poetry. His books include the popular classicsroom on the roof(Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize),A Flight of Pigeons,The Blue Umbrella,Time Stops at Shamli,Night Train at Deoli,Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (Winner of the Sahitya Akademi award) andRain in the Mountains. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
