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  Ruskin Bond 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. 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  Padma Bhushan  in 2014. Life: Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934  in  Kasauli ,  Punjab States Agency ,  British India . His father, Aubrey Alexander Bond, who was British, was born in a military camp in Shahjahanpur, a small town in north India. His mother, Edith Clarke, was  Anglo-Indian . His father taught English to the princesses of  Jamnagar palace , and Ruskin and his sister Ellen lived there till he was six. Later, Ruskin's father joined the  Royal Air Force  i...

  Francis Bacon ( British author, philosopher, and statesman ) Francis Bacon , ( /ˈbeɪkən/ ; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as  Attorney General  and  Lord Chancellor of England  under  King James I . Bacon argued the importance of  natural philosophy , guided by  scientific method , and his works remained influential throughout the  Scientific Revolution . Bacon has been called the father of  empiricism . He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon  inductive reasoning  and careful observation of events in  nature . He believed that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the  Baconian method , did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance an...