This work also stays relevant in today's scenario as it is by crossing these kinds of man-made binaries that the world becomes a socially unified place to live in. Ruskin Bond A Flight of PigeonsAbout Book:Set in Shahjahanpur during the revolt of 1857, A Flight of Pigeons is Ruskin Bonds classic novella about the. Instead of creating native and the foreign as distinct insular spaces Ruskin Bond creates (by the presence of foreign in the native spaces) an overlap that connects them. This paper is aimed at highlighting these complexities of binaries in A Flight of Pigeons. These binaries are placed in such a way that they later become interlocked. East and West are considered conventionally as two opposites, but here this opposition becomes complex. A Flight of Pigeons lays before the readers an interaction between ethos ethos that are considered as binaries.

On the face of it, it begins by constructing the conventional stereotypes but the way these stereotypes are detailed, soon lead to their pounding. Ruskin Bond's novella A Flight of Pigeons not only challenges this stereotypical and dichotomous understanding of the East and the West, but it also reorients ones understanding of this dynamic through a nuanced portrayal of native-foreign overlap. In fact, it has become the common conventional wisdom. Various emotional, political and social dichotomies have become the hallmark of conventional colonizer-colonized relationship and have been theorized and represented as such. With the melange of creative and critical, this work becomes a brilliant example of the way in which binaries can be converted to harmonious symbiotic entities.

Ruskin Bond writes mainly from his experiences, however in the novella A Flight of Pigeons, his critical as well as creative circumferences of mind move away to the pre partition era of India.

A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond