PORTRAYAL OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS DECENCY IN SELECTED TEXTS OF RUSKIN BOND

Abstract

The study of Human relationships in the writings of Ruskin Bond does not only develop interesting avenues to understand human nature but also ensures a retrospection and self-evaluation of one’s own relationship with the others. At some point or the other we identify with one or the other characters or one or the other situations in his writings. This is the magic of a Bondian text. His approach to human relationships educate every human being to examine his/her own self in order to understand the different levels of human life across the world and in the context of a better human society. No study on human relationships in literary works would be complete without delving deep into the authors’ relationship with life in general. Our attitude towards life and our broad relationship with human life affects all other relationships and shapes the way we view and appraise our relationships with others. Bond’s relationship with life is full of extreme passion. It is the passion that keeps a relationship throbbing and active. It is the passion or intense drive that sustains a human relationship. In the case of Bond this passion is his vocation of writing. This paper profiles inherent qualities and readers’ binding found in the writings of Bond wherein he has portrayed the decency of human relationships in a more unique way as compared to other Indian authors. This paper concludes that the Bondian literature might be partially dominated by hill folk and simple-minded common people, still relationshipvarieties and colorations portrayed have a universal and generalized appeal.  It is a matter of myopic criticism if Bond is segregated as a writer of children’s literature or as often demarcated, as an author of the  young adults. It would be unfair to restrict thewide range of relationships in his works to merely a child or an adolescent