Image of North India in Ruskin Bond

The book comprises the study of Image of India, Indianness in general and the image of North India in particular, in the select works of Ruskin Bond. "I am as Indian as the dust of plains or the grass of a mountain meadow." (Ruskin Bond).Nothing can express the love for a country in a better way than these words by Ruskin Bond. We find various images of India by different writers in the realm of Anglo-Indian English literature and have presented contradictory facets of Indian plethora. It has been a common practice among Indian English writers that their fiction comes from the urban society. For Bond, India has never been just a piece of land. It has meant love, simplicity, unity and acceptance. As Bond has always selected north India as the background for his works, one can very clearly see that north India merges in the end into an Indian spirit. Bond himself considers India as a living organism. He writes, "To love it through the friends, I made and through the mountains, valleys, fields and forests which have made an indelible impressions on my mind. For India is an atmosphere as much as it is a land".