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The Blue Umbrella by [Ruskin Bond]

The Blue Umbrella

About Author:

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Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. He lives with his adopted family in Landour, Mussoorie, India. The Indian Council for Child Education has recognised his role in the growth of children's literature in 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.

Summary of book:

The story is about a small village in Uttrakhand, India. In this village kindest heart girl Binya live with his brother Bijju and their mother. They have 2 cows- Neelu and Gori and some land on which they do farming. One day when she was returning home with Neelu and Gori she saw a group of picnickers. One of them was carrying a beautiful blue coloured umbrella which took Binya’s attention. A lady came nearby Binya and asked her I want to buy locket which Binya was wearing, these lockets made of tiger’s nail, these tiger’s claw pendants are considered as good luck in village. Binya told her okay I will give you this pendent but I would like to have that blue umbrella in exchange, Binya was very happy and went home that night singing and dancing. She loved that umbrella, she takes it everywhere with her, after sometime this umbrella got famous because it was so beautiful and no one in was having that kind of beautiful umbrella in village till now. Everyone praise umbrella and ask Binya to borrow it for some time.

            Monsoon came and Binya started roaming day and night with her umbrella and because of change in season and time colour of umbrella started to fade but love for umbrella never fade and villager’s wrong intensions to get that umbrella. There was a shopkeeper in that village- Rambharose, he also loved that umbrella and even asked Binya to sell him for some cash but Binya denied as she don’t want to sell his umbrella. A help boy from Rambharose’s shop know that Rambharose want to have that umbrella so he came up with a deal that if he will bring that umbrella, he want three rupee in exchange, Rambharose accepted that offer. One day that help boy stole that umbrella and run with it but was unsuccessful as Bijju saw him while returning from school  and caught him and had a fight where Bijju came out to be victorious. Every villager came there and asked help boy why you stole that umbrella then that cleaver boy told Rambharose pushed him to do this and also threaten him if he will not do this task then you will have to leave this shop, everyone thought help boy is right so they started boycotting Rambharose by not buying any item from his shop due to which Rambharose’s financial condition started to decline. Whenever Binya with Bijju pass from his shop she feel very sad because condition in which he was today was because of that umbrella and she thought relationship matters more that the materialistic things. One day when Binya came to shop to buy some toffee and left her umbrella intentionally and when Rambharose saw that he called her name loudly- “Binya you left your umbrella”, Binya replied I don’t want that umbrella you keep it, and Rambharose said this is one of beautiful umbrella in whole village why you don’t want it? Binya replied very softly umbrella is not the only thing in life and went away. Rambharose was very happy after he got that umbrella and villagers saw that he is having this so they asked how did you got this, he replied Binya have gifted me this Umbrella after this incident villagers started to buy from his shop and Rambharose’s financial condition also started to get stabled.

            One day in night a bear came outside Rambharose’s house and saw a plant with food on asbestos of house and started to climb and during this climbing his nail dropped on ground which was considered as good luck in village more that tiger’s pendant. He asked goldsmith to craft this nail in silver locket with a chain which was looking so beautiful. When Binya was returning with his two cows them he called him and gifted her that pendant and she was very happy.

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         By this story we came to know that how much humanity and relationship is important in our life, she loved that umbrella but she gave that umbrella to Rambharose due to which villagers again stared to have trust in him and he came out of from hard time of his life. We should always think and do well for other and you will get the same return.



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