HOW TO BE YOU
Kuhusu kitabu pepe hiki
There couldn't be a more perfect person to tell us how to be what we want to be than Ruskin Bond! Ruskin Bond followed his passion for writing, and did he wanted to and became what he wanted to be - a writer!
"I was determined to be a writer. It was the thing I did best. And shouldn't our lives be directed towards doing what we do best?"
After over 70 years of being a successful, celebrated author, he is here with valuable advice and brilliant nuggets of wisdom on how we can also be what we want to be.
- "You know best where you want to go, what you want to do in life."
- "Be a traveller, a citizen of the world. You can't spend all your life in your village or hometown. Experience life to the full. You can always come home again."
This beautiful book is filled with simple truths, practical observations and easy-to-follow advice on finding your passion and being you!
Ruskin Bond's life is a true example of living your dream and he's here to advise you on how to live yours!
Kuhusu mwandishi
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.
