SSC MTS 2019 PYQ — Question 41

Novel ‘The room on the roof’:

• The Room on the Roof is a novel written by Ruskin Bond.
• It was Bond's first literary venture. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.
• The novel revolves around Rusty, an orphaned seventeen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun.

Ruskin Bond:

• Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent.
• He lives with his adopted family in Landour, Mussoorie, India.
• He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, his novel in English.
• He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.