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character sketch of ram bharose in the blue umbrella.

Answer 1

Ruskin Bond, a popular Anglo-Indian writer for children catches the spirit of Himalayan splendour, the beauty of valleys in Uttranchal in a short story entitled "Binya''s Blue Umbrella" (1995). Written with wit, sensitivity and deep empathy with the people of the hills, the story is about a young girl called Binya who is enchanted by a blue umbrella of a city lady. The lady reflects a typical upper class attitude in her supercilious glance as she sizes up Binya even as she gets tempted by her tiger claw necklace. Binya exchanges her "totem" for the blue silk umbrella that makes her feel like a queen in the village! A small time tea shop owner Ram Bharose is quite a mercenary when it comes to children who que outside his shop to buy biscuits and sweets. The story is full of adventures with this magical umbrella that becomes the source of envy and delight for the village folk. Binya can''t afford to loose sight of her umbrella that is coloured with depths of skies, her dreams take flight as she holds it, even as Ram Bharose lures her with money. The surprise ending has a humane note without an explicitly stated moral. The story was adapted as a film "The Blue Umbrella" in Hindi by famous director Vishaal Bhardwaj in 2007 winning the best children''s film award this year. Bond''s gentle unobtrusive humour, touch of satire, playfulness and easy language makes the story a must read for children in any age group.Dipti Dwivedi · 3 years ago

Answer 2

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n the novel ‘The Blue Umbrella’ by Ruskin Bond we see that Binya obtains a beautiful blue umbrella by exchanging her leopard’s claw with some city picnickers. Her blue umbrella is so beautiful that almost everyone in the village is jealous of her. They say that this kind of stuff is often carried by Mem-Sahibs, and it does not suit to a village girl like Binya.

Coming to Ram Bharosa, his name means ‘Ram the trustworthy’. He is a shopkeeper, probably middle-aged, not very old. He runs a tea shop on Tehri road, but he also sells curd, soft-drinks, toffees and so on, mainly food items. Once a day, a bus halts by his shop and passengers drink tea or slurp curd. By all means, he is the richest man in the village. However, at the same time he is greedy too. He often let people or students take items on credit and at the time of calculation, he charges them extra and when they can’t pay he snatches some of their valuable stuff for his personal use or to sell at his shop.

However Binya and her brother Bijju do not fall prey to his antics. They are cautious of him. Ram Bharosa is greedy for the blue umbrella, he wants to have it; thus he offers a price of twelve rupees to Binya but to no avail. Whenever he sees Binya passes by the shop, he tries to lure her but to no avail. He becomes sad upon his status. Soon after monsoon he keeps a boy named Rajaram from a neighboring village as an assistant at is shop. Rajaram being extra-smart promises him to steal the umbrella for him at the cost of three rupees. To this Ram Bharosa, agrees hesitatingly.