Sunday, 12 March 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Acclaimed author Ruskin Bond said that deep love for animals and nature is essential to being happy and suggested that children must connect with small pets like a dog or a cat or even a squirrel, like he once had. He was speaking after releasing the book ‘What Makes Us Happy?’ by noted French writers Marie-Agnes Gaudrat and Carme Sole Vendrell, in his cottage in Landour, Mussoorie on Saturday. He also recommended the book published by Natraj Publishers, Dehradun, to parents who often find themselves struggling with their children with post Covid issues.
The book offers suggestions to make them happy and understand the world around them. He further added that there was a need to practice a sense of joy and happiness in families and it was becoming increasingly essential for parents to indulge their children in a regular practice of gratitude among other activities. Bond also stressed on the fact that the young must be led correctly in order to build a healthy society. If not, they will lead themselves on to the incorrect and untrue track making them materialistic, selfish and competitive. The book is joyful, practical and poetic that will help adults and children talk and reflect on what makes us truly happy. It is a must read for those who feel that their personal gross happiness index needs a refill.
Psychotherapist Aditi Arora and members of Bond’s adopted family Rakesh and Beena were also present on the occasion.
