Ruskin Bond was at a book release function in (6 June 2012) Born ( 1934-05-19) May 19, 1934 (age 84),, Occupation Author, poet Nationality Indian Alma mater Period 1951 – present Notable works Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra ' Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. He lives with his adopted family in,, India. The Indian Council for Child Education has recognised his role in the growth of children's literature in India. He was awarded the in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, his novel in English. He was awarded the in 1999 and the in 2014. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Life and career Ruskin Bond was born to Edith Clarke and Aubrey Alexender Bond, in Kasauli,,. His father taught English to the princesses of Jamnagar palace and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six.

Rusty was created by Ruskin Bond to write stories about his own past. 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.

Later, Ruskin's father joined the in 1939 and Ruskin 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 Mussourie. When Bond was eight years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi Hindu, Hari. His father arranged for Ruskin to be brought to New Delhi where he was posted.

He was very close to his father and describes this period with his father as one of the happiest times of his life. When he was ten, his father died of malaria, while he was posted in Calcutta. Ruskin was at his boarding school in Shimla and was informed about this tragedy by his teacher. He was thoroughly heartbroken. Later, he was raised by his mother and stepfather who lived in Dehradun.

I've searched the boards and found a few good posts about performing a saveas function that increments the file name, but all posts show you how to save in the native directory and not in a separate directory. 1) Open workbook located in 'G: Original thisexcelfile.xls' 2) The workbook has links, so updatelinks:=false 3) Save the file in a different directory 'G: New.' Here's what I need. 4) Create a loop to save file with incremented numeral at the end 'G: New thisexcelfile1.xls' The next filename will be 'thisexcelfile2.xls' Honestly, the workbook doesn't even need to open, I just want to create a backup copy of the workbook first in case my macro does something weird to it, we can restore the file using a backup stored in another directory.

He did his schooling from in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1950. He won several writing competitions in the school 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 his high school education he went to his aunt's home in the () in 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years.

In London, he started writing his first novel,, the semi-autobiographical story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty; he did various jobs for a living. It won the, (1957) awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30.

He moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching for a publisher. After getting it published, Bond used the advance money to pay the sea passage to and settle in Dehradun. He worked for a few years freelancing from and Dehradun. He sustained himself financially by writing short stories and poems for newspapers and magazines. On his youth, he said, 'Sometimes I got lucky and some [work] 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.'

In 1963, he went to live in because besides liking the place, it was close to the editors and publishers in Delhi. He edited a magazine for four years. In the 1980s, set up in India and approached him to write some books. He had written Vagrants in the Valley in 1956, as a sequel to The Room on the Roof. These two novels were published in one volume by in 1993.

The following year a collection of his non-fiction writings, The Best Of Ruskin Bond was published by Penguin India. His 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, and more than 50 books for children. He has also published his autobiography: Scenes from a Writer's Life describes his formative years growing up in Anglo-India and very recently 'Lone Wolf Dancing'.