“The Eyes Are Not Here” by Ruskin Bond
“The Eyes Are Not Here” by Ruskin Bond Analysis About Author: Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. He lives with his adopted family in Landour , in Mussoorie , India. The Indian Council for Child Education has recognized his role in the growth of children's literature in India. He got the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra , for his published work in English. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Theme of the story "The Eyes Are Not Here" Ruskin Bond’s short story “The Eyes Are Not Here” is very brief but is also intriguingly complex. Although most worthwhile stories cannot be easily paraphrased or reduced to a single theme, this story definitely seems to deal with issues of human perception . In this tale, three people, at least, prove to be imperceptive in various ways: the unnamed man on the train, the unnamed woman on the train, the