Question

Answer the questions after reading the text.

I first discovered Ruskin Bond on a hot afternoon in Agartala. My mother, sister, and I were spending the summer with my father, an army officer, who was stationed there.

There wasn’t much to do for a young teen in the army cantonment, so I spent most of my days at the library, which had a modest collection of books. I casually picked up Bond’s Delhi Is Not Far on one such day and was immediately drawn into his gentle, unassuming, non-judgmental world.

Since that day, I’ve searched for and devoured every one of Ruskin Bond’s works. Like me, he was shy and dreamy and enjoyed the company of the written word above that of people.

Bond’s father died suddenly of malaria at 46 when Bond was just 10—a cruel blow for the young boy. It’s remarkable how Bond writes about his father’s

Untimely death with quiet dignity.

Moved as I was by Bond’s memories of his father, little did I know that I would soon be experiencing his pain first- hand. When I was 21, my father too suddenly passed away after a brief illness. Looking back at the time immediately after my father’s passing, all I remember is a feeling of utter disbelief, of thinking, This is temporary. Soon it’ll be over and he’ll be back.

Only it didn’t. He didn’t return. Slowly, the permanence of my loss started sinking in. I sought refuge in my beloved books, and no other author gave me as much relief as did my beloved Ruskin Bond.

I read and re-read Bond’s memories of his father, of his feelings post his demise. One day, on a whim, I decided to write to him. I felt he was one of the very few people who really understood what I was going through, and I wanted to reach out to him. So I penned a brief letter expressing my gratitude to him for seeing me through by far the most difficult time in my life and sent it off simply addressed to 'Ruskin Bond, Mussoorie '.

Imagine my surprise and delight when, a few weeks later, a letter arrived from him, addressed to me! It said:

Dear Radhika,

Thank you for your letter. I can well imagine what a difficult time you have undergone and am glad my writing has afforded you some measure of solace. Take heart in knowing that you will always have your father’s memories— something that neither time nor space can take away from you.

I wish I could write to you at greater length but time presses and unfinished tasks loom large.


Take care and all my best wishes, Ruskin Bond,

Ivy Cottage, Landour


Q1.)Write two similarities the writer thinks Ruskin Bond and he have.

Q2.). Do you agree with the advice given by Ruskin Bond to the writer in the letter? Why?
I will mark him as brainliest answer

Answer 1

A.1

Two similarities where...

Both their father died from diseases.

Ruskin's father too worked for the army.

A.2

Yes, This is because it gives hope about him for his father.