3. BORN AND DIED
Ruskin Bond Sarojini Naidu
Born:19 May 1934 (age 77)
Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India
Born: Sarojini Chattopadhyaya
13 February 1879
Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, India
Died: March 2, 1949
4. FATHER AND
MOTHER
RUSKIN BOND
SAROJINI NAIDU
RUSKIN BOND'S MOTHER'S
NAME WAS ELIZABETH BOND
AND FATHER'S NAME WAS
AUBREY BOND
HER FATHER’S NAME WAS
AGHORNATH
CHATTOPADHYAYA A
SCIENTIST-PHILOSOPHER AND
HER FATHER WAS THE
FOUNDER OF THE NIZAM
COLLEGE,
HER MATHER’S NAME WAS
BARADA SUNDARI DEVI, A
POETESS.
NIZAM COLLAGE
5. EDUCATION
RUSKIN BOND
HE STUDIED AT BISHOP
COTTON SCHOOL IN
SHIMLA.
SAROJINI NAIDU
SHE ATTAINED NATIONAL
FAME FOR ENTERING MADRAS
UNIVERSITY AT THE AGE OF
TWELVE. AT SIXTEEN, SHE
TRAVELLED TO ENGLAND TO
STUDY FIRST AT KING'S
COLLEGE, LONDON, AND
GIRTON COLLEGE.
KING'COLLEGE
6. LIFE HISTORY
RUSKIN BOND
Born In Pre-independence India,
Ruskin Bond Is The Quintessential
Indian Writer In English And A Lifelong
Lover Of India. He Came Into This
World In A Military Hospital In Kasauli
To Edith Clerke Aubrey Alexander
Bond. Ruskin’s Love For Books And
Writing Had Come Early To Him, Since
Father Always Surrounded Him With
Books And Encouraged Him To Write
Little Descriptions Of The Nature, As
He Took Rusty On Hikes Around The
Hills. It Was After School, That He
Began To Carve Out A Niche As A
Writer. When He Was Seventeen Years
Old He Wrote His First Book.
SAROJINI NAIDU
Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 March 2, 1949) Was Known As
Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale
Of India) And Was A Child
Prodigy, Freedom Fighter And Poet.
Naidu Was The First Indian
Woman To Become The President
Of The Indian National Congress
And The First Woman To Become
The Governor Of A State In India.
Her Favorite Poet Was P.B. Shelley .
7. POEMS
Ruskin Bond
1. LEOPARD ON THE
MOUNTAIN
2. COLLECTED FICTION
Sarojini Naidu
1. WONDERING SINGERS
2. TO MY CHILDREN
3. TO INDIA
8. BOOKS
RUSKIN BOND
1. THE LAMP IS LIT
2 . T H E RO O M O N T H E RO O F
SAROJINI NAIDU
1. THE GOLDEN
THRESHOLD
2. SCEPTRED FLUTE
9. ACHIEVEMENTS
RUSKIN BOND
SAROJINI NAIDU
HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED
‘ROOM ON THE ROOF’ AND
HE WAS AWARDED 'JOHH
LLEWELLYN RHYS’
PRIZE THAT IS AWARDED TO
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
WRITERS WHO ARE UNDER THE
AGE OF 30.
SAROJINI NAIDU BECAME THE
GOVERNOR OF UTTAR
PRADESH. SHE WAS INDIA'S
FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR.
SAROJINI NAIDU DIED IN
OFFICE ON MARCH 2 ,1949.
