Ruskin Bond’s in his short story ‘The Room of Many Colours’ is a mysterious figure, sometimes preening, sometimes petulant. As with any Ruskin Bond story, the prose is simple and charming. Bond’s. It’s a slender reminder that while Indian society and politics have been male-dominated, every now and then a powerful female figure comes along. As the introduction tells us, the word ‘queen’ is used loosely, and includes “all women who were rulers of royal birth—empresses, queens, regents, princesses, begums and so on”.
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