Ruskin Bond

Indian novelist and short story writer (born 1934)

Padmashri
Ruskin Bond

Bond in 2012

Born|  (1934-05-19) 19 May 1934 (age 91)
Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India
Occupation|

* Author
* poet

Language| English
Alma mater| Bishop Cotton School
Notable works| The Room on the Roof
Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
A Flight of Pigeons
The Blue Umbrella
Granny's Tree Climbing
Angry River
Notable awards| John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1957)
Sahitya Akademi Award (1992)
Padma Shri (1999)
Bal Sahitya Puraskar (2012)
Padma Bhushan (2014)

Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, published in 1956, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children.[1] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.[2]

## Life

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Bond's parents Aubrey Bond and Edith Clarke.

Bond was born on 19 May 1934 [3][4] in Kasauli, Punjab States Agency, British India. His father, Aubrey Alexander Bond,[5] who was British, was born in a military camp in Shahjahanpur, a small town in north India.[6] His mother, Edith Clarke,[5] was Anglo-Indian.

His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palachise, and Bond and his sister Eldlen lived there till he was six. Later, his father joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and Bond, along with his mother and sister, went to live at his maternal home at Dehradun. Shortly after that, he was sent to a boarding school in Mussoorie.

When Bond was eight years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu, Hari. His father arranged for Bond to be brought to New Delhi where he was posted. He was very close to his father and describes this period (1942–1944) with his father as one of the happiest times of his life. When he was ten, however, his father died due to malaria while posted in Calcutta[7] and was buried in the Bhowanipore War Cemetery in Calcutta.[6] At the time, Bond was at his boarding school in Shimla and when informed about this tragedy by his teacher, he was thoroughly heartbroken. Later, he was raised in Dehradun.

He attended Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, graduating in 1951. There he won several writing competitions, including the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize. He wrote one of his first short stories, "Untouchable", at the age of sixteen in 1951.

Following high school, he went to his aunt's home in the Channel Islands in 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years. In London when he was seventeen years old, he started writing his first novel, The Room on the Roof, the semi-autobiographical story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, (1957) awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. While searching for a publisher, he worked in a photo studio in London. After getting his novel published, he used the advance money to pay sea passage to return to India and settled in Dehradun.[8]

He worked for a few years freelancing from Delhi and Dehradun,[9] sustaining himself financially by writing short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. About his youth, he said, "Sometimes I got lucky and some [of my works] got selected and I earned a few hundred rupees. Since I was in my 20s and didn't have any responsibilities I was just happy to be doing what I loved doing best."[8]

In 1963, Bond went to live in Mussoorie, a town in the Himalayan foothills in Uttarakhand, because—besides his liking of the place—it was close to the editors and publishers in Delhi. He edited a magazine for four years. In the 1980s, Penguin set up in India and approached him to write some books. Penguin India published two novels: The Room on the Roof and Vagrants in the Valley, which Bond had written in 1956 as a sequel. These two novels were published in one volume by in 1993. The following year, Penguin India published a collection of his non-fiction writings, The Best of Bond Bond. Bond's interest in supernatural fiction led him to write popular titles such as Ghost Stories from the Raj, A Season of Ghosts, and A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings.

Since then, he has written over five hundred short stories, essays and novels, including The Blue Umbrella, Funny Side Up, A Flight of Pigeons(the Hindi film Junoon was based on this story), and more than 50 books for children. He also published his autobiography in what might be called two installments: Scenes from a Writer's Life, describing his formative years growing up in Anglo-India, and a further autobiography, Lone Fox Dancing. The Lamp is Lit is a collection of essays and episodes from his journal.

Ruskin Bond with his sister, Ellen. This photograph dates back to 1938.

Since 1963, Bond has lived as a freelance writer in Mussoorie, staying with his adoptive family in Landour, Mussoorie's Ivy Cottage, which has been his home since 1980.[10][11] Asked what he likes most about his life, he said, "That I have been able to write for so long. I started at the age of 17 or 18 and I am still writing. If I were not a professional writer who was getting published I would still write."[12]

His sister Ellen lived in Ludhiana with his stepsister until she died in 2014. He also has a brother, William, who lives in Canada.

## Literary career

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Most of Bond's works are influenced by life in the hill stations in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he spent his childhood. The Room on the Roof, was written when he was 17 and published when he was 22. It was partly based on the experiences of him and his friends in his small rented room on the roof in Dehradun. His earlier works were written without being meant for any particular readership.[12][13] The writing of his first children's book, Angry River, published in 1972, was toned down on a publisher's request for a children's story.[12] About writing for children, Bond said, "I had a pretty lonely childhood and it helps me to understand a child better."[14] His work reflects his Anglo-Indian experiences and the changing political, social and cultural aspects of India, having been through colonial, postcolonial and post-independence phases of India.[3]

Bond said that while his autobiographical work, Rain in the Mountains valley, was about his years spent in Mussoorie. Scenes from a Writer's Life described his first 21 years. Scenes from a Writer's Life focuses on Bond's trip to England, his struggle to find a publisher for his first book The Room on the Roof and his yearning to come back to India, particularly to Doon. "It also tells a lot about my parents", said Bond. "The book ends with the publication of my first novel and my decision to make writing my livelihood", he explained, adding: "Basically, it describes how I became a writer".[15][citation needed]

Being a writer for over 50 years, Bond experimented with different genres. His early works include fiction, short stories, and novellas with some being autobiographical; and later he tried out non-fiction, romance[8] and books for children. He said that his favourite writing genres are essays and short stories.[12] He considers himself a "visual writer" because for short stories, he first imagines them like a film and then notes them down. For an essay or travelogue, however, he finds such planning not needed because he feels the unexpected makes them more exciting.[12]

As for his own reading, Bond named Just William by Richmal Crompton, Billy Bunter by Charles Hamilton and classics such as Alice in Wonderland and works by Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.[12]

## Film career

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The 1978 Bollywood film Junoon is based on Bond's novel A Flight of Pigeons, about an episode during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It was produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Shyam Benegal.

The Rusty stories have been adapted into a Doordarshan TV series Ek Tha Rusty. Several stories have been incorporated into the Indian school curriculum, including The Night Train at Deoli, Time Stops at Shamli and Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.

In 2005, the Bollywood director Vishal Bhardwaj made a film based on Bond's popular novel for children, The Blue Umbrella. The movie went on to win the National Film Award for Best Children's Film.

Bond made his maiden big-screen appearance with Vishal Bhardwaj's film 7 Khoon Maaf in 2011, based on his short story Susanna's Seven Husbands. In the movie, Bond appears as a bishop with Priyanka Chopra playing the title role.[16] Earlier, he had collaborated with Bharadwaj in The Blue Umbrella, which was also based on one of his works.

Parchhayee: Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond, an Indian web series on Zee5 based on the ghost stories written by Bond, was also released.

## The Rusty character

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Rusty is a popular fictional character created by Bond: a 16-year-old orphaned Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun with no real family. Rusty's character offers a teenager's perspective on battling with confusions about life, relationship, happiness and love. He starts living with his guardian John Harrison, who is stern and harsh. Rusty is obliged to follow his guardian's rules and orders and doesn't dare disobey which makes him feel helpless because he knows that if he does, he will get caned. He has no real friends and finds himself very lonely in his guardian's house[17] in the European part of Dehradun. He wants to embrace Indian culture and lifestyle,[18] and so he makes friends with some Indian boys in the local marketplace, hiding this from Harrison, continuing to go on secret adventures with them. Soon he decides to run away from the captivity of Harrison and go to England.

The character of Rusty was based on Bond himself as a teenager. His first book, The Room on the Roof, which he wrote at the age of 17, was a semi-autobiographical story with Rusty being the protagonist.[19] It was based on his friends and the time he spent in a rented room in Dehradun.[20] Most of Rusty's initial years are set in the location of Dehradun, a scenic place in northern India. Bond was deeply attached to Dehra and most of his stories are inspired by the hills and valleys of this region.

Novels and short stories featuring Rusty include:

* The Room on the Roof
* Vagrants in the Valley (a sequel to The Room on the Roof)
* Rusty, the Boy from the Hills (collection of short stories)
* Rusty Runs Away (collection of short stories)
* Rusty and the Magic Mountain
* Rusty Goes to London
* Rusty Comes Home
* The Adventures of Rusty (collection of short stories)
* Delhi Is Not Far
* Rusty Plays Holi
* Rusty and the Leopard

## Bibliography

[edit]

### Novels

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* The Room on the Roof
* Vagrants in the Valley
* Rusty Runs Away
* A Flight of Pigeons
* The Sensualist
* The Panther's Moon
* Once Upon a Monsoon Time
* Delhi Is Not Far
* Angry River
* The Woman on Platform 8
* Strangers in the Night
* All Roads Lead to Ganga
* Tales of Fosterganj
* Maharani
* Leopard on the Mountain
* Grandfather's Private Zoo
* In Grandfather's Garden
* The Blue Umbrella
* Too Much Trouble
* When the Tiger Was King
* Cherry Tree
* The Great Train Journey
* Children of India
* Owls in the Family
* Dust on the Mountain
* The Adventures of Toto
* The House of Strange Stories'
* Big Business
* When the Night Falls
* "He said it with Arsenic"
* A Season of Ghosts

### Memories

[edit]

* Landour Days: A Writer's Journal
* Scenes from a Writer's Life
* With Love from the Hills
* Roads to Mussoorie
* Looking for the Rainbow
* Till the Clouds Roll By
* Coming Round the Mountain
* A Song of India
* All the Roads Lead to Ganga

### Non-fiction

[edit]

* It's a Wonderful Life: Roads to Happiness
* A Golf Story: Celebrating 125 Years of the Bangalore Golf Club
* Happy Birthday, World!

## See also

[edit]

* Children's literature portal

* List of Indian writers

## References

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1. ^ "Can't Run Out Of Stories In India": Ruskin Bond Celebrates 88th Birthday". NDTV.
2. ^ "Padma Awarded" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
3. ^ a b Khorana, Meena G. (2003). The life and works of Ruskin Bond. Praegar, Greenwood. p. 1–10. ISBN 9780313311857.
4. ^ Pant, Neha (19 May 2015). "At 81, Ruskin Bond's tryst with his tireless pen continues". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
5. ^ a b "The name is Bond, Ruskin Bond". Hindustan Times. 5 April 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
6. ^ a b "Ruskin's Daddy bond". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
7. ^ "A BOND THAT ENDURES". democraticworld.in. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
8. ^ a b c Mishra, Prachi Raturi (19 May 2014). "The name is Bond, Ruskin Bond". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
9. ^ Sinha, Arpita (18 May 2010). "The name is Bond, Ruskin Bond". Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
10. ^ Bond, Ruskin (24 November 2012). "Walk the Talk with Ruskin Bond" (Interview). Interviewed by Shekhar Gupta. Delhi: NDTV. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
11. ^ Dhir, L. Aruna (2 April 2018). "The interview that Ruskin Bond called his finest". DailyO.in. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
12. ^ a b c d e f Kumar, Ramendra (10 December 2010). "A Landour day with Ruskin Bond". Business Line. The Hindu. Archived from the original on 8 January 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
13. ^ Zachariah, Preeti (2 December 2019). "How Ruskin Bond keeps the magic of boyhood alive". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 13 January 2020. "Though 'Children's Author' is a tag that he is usually associated with, Bond began writing for children only in his forties. "I was always good at writing about children. But I wrote those stories without a reader in mind","
14. ^ "My writings reflect my lonely childhood: Ruskin Bond – Firstpost". Firstpost. 9 April 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
15. ^ Bond, Ruskin (29 August 2017). Scenes from a Writer's Life. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-81-8475-450-6.
16. ^ "Ruskin Bond to do a cameo in 'Saat Khoon..'". The Times of India. IANS. 24 January 2011. Archived from the original on 28 January 2011.
17. ^ Adya@Youngbookreporters (21 March 2016). "Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
18. ^ "The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond". The Hindu. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
19. ^ Singh, Tanaya (3 January 2016). "Ruskin Bond Brings Back Rusty. After More than a Decade". The Better India. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
20. ^ "5 popular books by Ruskin Bond you shouldn't miss : Art and Culture". India Today. 18 May 2016. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

## External links

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1960–1970|

* The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960)
* The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964)
* The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965)
* Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967)
* An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969)

1971–1980|

* Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971)
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* Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976)
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* Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978)
* Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979)
* On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980)

1981–1990|

* Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981)
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* Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983)
* The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984)
* Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985)
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* Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987)
* The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988)
* The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989)
* That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990)

1991–2000|

* The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991)
* Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992)
* After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993)
* Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994)
* Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996)
* Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998)
* The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999)
* Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)

2001–2010|

* Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001)
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* Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007)
* Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009)
* The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010)

2011–2020|

* India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011)
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* Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao (2013)
* Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014)
* Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015)
* Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto (2016)
* The Black Hill by Mamang Dai (2017)
* The Blind Lady's Descendants by Anees Salim (2018)
* An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor (2019)
* When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam (2020)

2021–present|

* Things to Leave Behind by Namita Gokhale (2021)
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2010|

* Satya Paul Agarwal
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* Aamir Khan
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* Kushal Pal Singh
* Bikash Sinha
* Balagangadharanatha Swamiji
* Narayanan Vaghul
* P. K. Warrier
* Fareed Zakaria

2011|

* S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
* Rajashree Birla
* M. N. Buch
* C. V. Chandrasekhar
* Ajai Chowdhry
* Yogesh Chander Deveshwar
* Satyadev Dubey
* T. J. S. George
* Shankha Ghosh
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* Keki Byramjee Grant
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* Krishen Khanna
* Khayyam
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* Kallam Anji Reddy
* Waheeda Rehman
* Shyam Saran
* Analjit Singh
* Arpita Singh
* Surendra Singh
* R. K. Srikantan
* Raghavan Thirumulpad

2012|

* Suresh H. Advani
* Shabana Azmi
* Homi K. Bhabha
* Shashikumar Chitre
* Khaled Choudhury
* Jatin Das
* Vidya Dehejia
* Dharmendra
* S. N. Goenka
* M. S. Gopalakrishnan
* T. V. Gopalakrishnan
* Buddhadev Das Gupta
* Sunil Janah
* Anish Kapoor
* S. B. Mujumdar
* B. Muthuraman
* Mira Nair
* Arvind Panagariya
* José Pereira
* Mata Prasad
* M. S. Raghunathan
* P. Chandrasekhara Rao
* Ronen Sen
* Devi Shetty
* M. V. Subbiah
* N. Vittal
* N. H. Wadia
* George Yeo

2013|

* Satya N. Atluri
* Maharaj Kishan Bhan
* Jaspal Bhatti
* Rahul Dravid
* Adi Godrej
* Abdul Rashid Khan
* Rajesh Khanna
* Mary Kom
* Nandkishore Shamrao Laud
* Mangesh Padgaonkar
* Hemendra Singh Panwar
* Jogesh Pati
* Shivajirao Girdhar Patil
* A. Sivathanu Pillai
* D. Ramanaidu
* Kanak Rele
* V. K. Saraswat
* Ashoke Sen
* Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
* B. N. Suresh
* Sharmila Tagore
* Ramamurthy Thyagarajan
* Saroja Vaidyanathan

2014|

* Anisuzzaman
* Mrityunjay Athreya
* Padmanabhan Balaram
* Dalveer Bhandari
* Ruskin Bond
* Anita Desai
* Pullela Gopichand
* Kamal Haasan
* Jyeshtharaj Joshi
* V. N. Kaul
* Neelam Kler
* M. Mahadevappa
* Leander Paes
* Koppillil Radhakrishnan
* Anumolu Ramakrishna
* Thirumalachari Ramasami
* Lloyd Rudolph
* Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
* Vinod Prakash Sharma
* Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
* Parween Sultana
* Dhirubhai Thaker
* Vairamuthu
* J. S. Verma
* T. H. Vinayakram

2015|

* Jahnu Barua
* Manjul Bhargava
* Vijay P. Bhatkar
* Swapan Dasgupta
* David Frawley
* Bill Gates
* Melinda French Gates
* Swami Satyamitranand
* N. Gopalaswami
* Subhash C. Kashyap
* Gokulotsavji Maharaj
* Saichiro Misumi
* Ambrish Mithal
* Sudha Ragunathan
* Harish Salve
* Ashok Seth
* Rajat Sharma
* Satpal Singh
* Shivakumara Swami
* Khadg Singh Valdiya

2016|

* Ravindra Chandra Bhargava
* Robert D. Blackwill
* Hafeez Contractor
* Indu Jain
* Heisnam Kanhailal
* Anupam Kher
* Sania Mirza
* Pallonji Mistry
* Udit Narayan
* Saina Nehwal
* Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad
* Vinod Rai
* N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya
* A. V. Rama Rao
* D. Nageshwara Reddy
* Dayananda Saraswati
* Barjinder Singh Hamdard
* Ram V. Sutar
* Tejomayananda

2017|

* Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
* Deviprasad Dwivedi
* Ratnasundarsuri
* Niranjanananda Saraswati
* Cho Ramaswamy
* Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
* Tehemton Erach Udwadia

2018|

* Pankaj Advani
* Philipose Mar Chrysostom
* Mahendra Singh Dhoni
* Alexander Kadakin
* Ramachandran Nagaswamy
* Laxman Pai
* Arvind Parikh
* Sharda Sinha

2019|

* John T. Chambers
* Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
* Pravin Gordhan
* Dharampal Gulati
* Darshan Lal Jain
* Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade
* Kariya Munda
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* Mohanlal
* Nambi Narayanan
* Kuldip Nayar
* Bachendri Pal
* V. K. Shunglu
* Hukmdev Narayan Yadav

# Posthumous conferral

* 1954–1959
* 1960–1969
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* 1980–1989
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Recipients of Padma Shri in Literature & Education

1950s|

* K. Shankar Pillai (1954)
* Krishna Kanta Handique (1955)
* Surya Kumar Bhuyan (1956)
* Sukhdev Pande (1956)
* Nalini Bala Devi (1957)
* S. R. Ranganathan (1957)
* Ram Chandra Varma (1958)
* Magan Lal Tribhuvandas Vyas (1958)
* K. S. Chandrasekharan (1958)

1960s|

* B. S. Kesavan (1960)
* Artaballabha Mohanty (1960)
* N. D. Sundaravadivelu (1961)
* Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (1961)
* Vishnukant Jha (1961)
* Jinvijay (1961)
* Evengeline Lazarus (1961)

1970s|

* Ananda Chandra Barua (1970)
* Sulabha Panandikar (1971)

1980s|

* Krishan Dutta Bharadwaj (1981)
* Abid Ali Khan (1981)
* Ram Panjwani (1981)
* Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1982)
* R. V. Pandit (1982)
* Sher Singh Sher (1982)
* Gaura Pant Shivani (1982)
* Ahalya Chari (1983)
* Amitabha Chaudhuri (1983)
* Saliha Abid Hussain (1983)
* Komal Kothari (1983)
* Hundraj Lial Ram Dukhayal Manik (1983)
* Raghuvir Sharan Mitra (1983)
* Attar Singh (1983)
* Mayangnokcha Ao (1984)
* Kshem Suman Chandra (1984)
* Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat (1984)
* Shanta Gandhi (1984)
* Sadhu Singh Hamdard (1984)
* Qurratulain Hyder (1984)
* Ganpatrao Jadhav (1984)
* Syed Abdul Malik (1984)
* John Arthur King Martyn (1984)
* Sooranad Kunjan Pillai (1984)
* Syed Hasan Askari (1985)
* Jamesh Dokhuma (1985)
* Kaka Hathrasi (1985)
* Bharat Mishra (1985)
* Harishankar Parsai (1985)
* Ashangbam Minaketan Singh (1985)
* Anil Agarwal (1986)
* Binod Kanungo (1986)
* Chitra Naik (1986)
* Abdur Rahman (1986)
* Nuchhungi Renthlei (1986)
* Raghunath Sharma (1986)
* Abdul Sattar (1987)
* Nazir Ahmed (1987)
* Vanaja Iyengar (1987)
* Khawlkungi (1987)
* Badri Narayan (1987)
* Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (1987)
* Sant Singh Sekhon (1987)
* N. Khelchandra Singh (1987)
* Madaram Brahma (1988)
* Nissim Ezekiel (1988)
* K. M. George (1988)
* Mario Miranda (1988)
* Vidya Niwas Mishra (1988)
* Ali Jawad Zaidi (1988)
* Kalim Aajiz (1989)
* Barsane Lal Chaturvedi (1989)
* Anita Desai (1989)
* Moti Lal Saqi (1989)
* Rongbong Terang (1989)
* V. Venkatachalam (1989)

1990s|

* M. Aram (1990)
* Vijay Kumar Chopra (1990)
* Behram Contractor (1990)
* Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1990)
* Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari (1990)
* Yashpal Jain (1990)
* Sharad Joshi (1990)
* Kanhiyalal Prabhakar Mishra (1990)
* Gopi Chand Narang (1990)
* Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1990)
* Nilmani Phookan Jr (1990)
* Shyam Singh Shashi (1990)
* Ram Nath Shastri (1990)
* Bharat Bhushan (yogi) (1991)
* Kapil Deva Dvivedi (1991)
* B. K. S. Iyengar (1991)
* Satish Chandra Kakati (1991)
* Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1991)
* Madan Lal Madhu (1991)
* Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor (1991)
* Keshav Malik (1991)
* Surendra Mohanty (1991)
* P. T. Narasimhachar (1991)
* V. G. Bhide (1992)
* Gulabdas Broker (1992)
* Krishna Chaithanya (1992)
* Rajammal P. Devadas (1992)
* Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1992)
* V. C. Kulandaiswamy (1992)
* R. S. Lugani (1992)
* Shovana Narayan (1992)
* Nisith Ranjan Ray (1992)
* Moirangthem Kirti Singh (1992)
* B. K. Thapar (1992)
* Mark Tully (1992)
* B. N. Goswamy (1998)
* O. N. V. Kurup (1998)
* Lalsangzuali Sailo (1998)
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* Narayan Gangaram Surve (1998)
* Ruskin Bond (1999)
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* G. P. Chopra (1999)
* Namdeo Dhasal (1999)
* Kanhaiya Lal Nandan (1999)
* Satya Vrat Shastri (1999)
* Rajkumar Jhalajit Singh (1999)

2000s|

* Grigoriy Lvovitch Bondarevsky (2000)
* P. S. Chawngthu (2000)
* Piloo Nowshir Jungalwalla (2000)
* Mandan Mishra (2000)
* Rehman Rahi (2000)
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* Bala V. Balachandran (2001)
* Jeelani Bano (2001)
* Manoj Das (2001)
* Javare Gowda (2001)
* Chandrashekhara Kambara (2001)
* Gnanananda Kavi (2001)
* Kumar Ketkar (2001)
* Ravindra Kumar (2001)
* Kalidas Gupta Riza (2001)
* Padma Sachdev (2001)
* Bhabendra Nath Saikia (2001)
* Vachnesh Tripathi (2001)
* Munirathna Anandakrishnan (2002)
* Gopal Chhotray (2002)
* Gyan Chand Jain (2002)
* Madhu Mangesh Karnik (2002)
* Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar (2002)
* V. K. Madhavan Kutty (2002)
* Turlapaty Kutumba Rao (2002)
* Kim Yang-shik (2002)
* Manzoor Ahtesham (2003)
* Jagdish Chaturvedi (2003)
* Motilal Jotwani (2003)
* Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad (2003)
* Tekkatte Narayan Shanbhag (2003)
* Shailendra Nath Shrivastava (2003)
* Pritam Singh (2003)
* Vairamuthu (2003)
* Hamlet Bareh (2004)
* Kumarpal Desai (2004)
* Tatyana Elizarenkova (2004)
* Anil Kumar Gupta (2004)
* Gowri Ishwaran (2004)
* Leeladhar Jagudi (2004)
* Sunita Jain (2004)
* Prithvi Nath Kaula (2004)
* Ayyappa Paniker (2004)
* P. Parameswaran (2004)
* Bal Samant (2004)
* Kanhaiyalal Sethia (2004)
* Ramesh Chandra Shah (2004)
* Heinrich von Stietencron (2004)
* Sudhir Tailang (2004)
* Dalip Kaur Tiwana (2004)
* Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2005)
* Shobhana Bhartia (2005)
* Manas Chaudhuri (2005)
* Darchhawna (2005)
* J. S. Grewal (2005)
* Amin Kamil (2005)
* Gadul Singh Lama (2005)
* Mammen Mathew (2005)
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* Sucheta Dalal (2006)
* Laltluangliana Khiangte (2006)
* Lothar Lutze (2006)
* Mrinal Pande (2006)
* Sugathakumari (2006)
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* Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia (2007)
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* Shekhar Pathak (2007)
* Pratibha Ray (2007)
* Rostislav Rybakov (2007)
* Vikram Seth (2007)
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* A. Sankara Reddy
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* Ram Shankar Tripathi

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* Lalzuia Colney (2010)
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* Barun Mazumder (2011)
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* Geeta Dharmarajan (2012)
* Eberhard Fischer (2012)
* Kedar Gurung (2012)
* Surjit Patar (2012)
* Sachchidanand Sahai (2012)
* Allan Sealy (2012)
* Pepita Seth (2012)
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* Ralte L. Thanmawia (2012)
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* Devendra Patel (2013)
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* Anant Agarwal (2017)
* Eli Ahmed (2017)
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* Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri (2017)
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* Vishnu Pandya (2017)
* V. G. Patel (2017)
* H. R. Shah (2017)
* Chamu Krishna Shastry (2017)
* Bhawana Somaaya (2017)
* Punam Suri (2017)
* Harihar Kripalu Tripathi (2017)
* G. Venkatasubbiah (2017)
* Prafulla Govinda Baruah (2018)
* Shyamlal Chaturvedi (2018)
* Arup Kumar Dutta (2018)
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* Vagish Shastri (2018)
* Maharao Raghuveer Singh (2018)
* A Zakia (2018)
* Narsingh Dev Jamwal (2019)
* Nagindas Sanghavi (2019)
* Mohammed Hanif Khan Shastri (2019)
* Devendra Swarup (2019)
* Kailash Madbaiya (2019)

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* Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra (2020)
* Binapani Mohanty (2020)
* Damayanti Beshra (2020)
* H. M. Desai (2020)
* Lil Bahadur Chettri (2020)
* Meenakshi Jain (2020)
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* Robert Thurman (2020)
* S. P. Kothari (2020)
* Shahabuddin Rathod (2020)
* Sudharma (2020)
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* Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (2020)
* Yogesh Praveen (2020)
* Benichandra Jamatia (2020)
* Carlos G. Vallés (2021)
* Dadudan Gadhvi (2021)
* Imran Shah (2021)
* Mangal Singh Hazowary (2021)
* Mridula Sinha (2021)
* Namdeo Kamble (2021)
* Rangasami L. Kashyap (2021)
* Srikant Datar (2021)
* Solomon Pappaiah (2021)
* Asavadi Prakasarao (2021)
* Lalbiakthanga Pachuau (2021)
* Najma Akhtar (2022)
* T Senka Ao (2022)
* J K Bajaj (2022)
* Sirpi Balasubramaniam (2022)
* Akhone Asgar Ali Basharat (2022)
* Harmohinder Singh Bedi (2022)
* Maria Christopher Byrski (2022)
* Khalil Dhantejvi (Posthumous) (2022)
* Dhaneswar Engti (2022)
* Narasimha Rao Garikapati (2022)
* Girdhari Ram Gonjhu (Posthumous) (2022)
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* Rutger Kortenhorst (2022)
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* V L Nghaka  (2022)
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* Radha Charan Gupta (2023)
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