THE FIRST of the Ruskin Bond International School (RBIS), a venture founded by the author along with his grandson Siddharth Bond, will open on Sunday in partnership with Vadodara-based lawyer Kunal Sharma and Chartered Accountant-educationist Utpal Shah.

The celebrated author’s granddaughter Shristi will inaugurate the pre-school with an interactive storytelling session to welcome the students who will begin classes from November 3, after the Diwali break. Along with the pre-primary school, the founders are also launching the Ruskin Bond Book Club in Vadodara, which will be open to all, for scheduled book reading sessions every second Saturday.

The RBIS brand was launched in January this year in Mussoorie to mark the author’s 91st birthday year.

Ruskin Bond spent six growing up years of

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