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| Author | Ruskin Bond |
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| Original title | ahilan |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novella |
| Published | 1978 |
| Publication place | India |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 144 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-670-04927-1 (Penguin edition, hardcover) |
A Flight of Pigeons is a novella by Indian author Ruskin Bond. The story is set in 1857,[1] and is about Ruth Labadoor and her family (who are British) who take help of Hindus and Muslims to reach their relatives when the family's patriarch is killed in a church by the Indian rebels. The novella is an adaptation of the novel Mariam: A Story of the Indian Mutiny (1896) by J. F. Fanthome[2] and is a mix of fiction and non fiction and was adapted into a film in 1978 called Junoon[3] by Shyam Benegal, starring Shashi Kapoor, his wife Jennifer Kendal, and Nafisa Ali.[4][5]
- ^ "A flight of pigeons: Ruskin Bond - The Statesman". The Statesman. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
- ^ "Saga of the Fanthomes". The Hindu. 2013-04-07. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ^ "Penguin Books India". Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Sen, Raja (25 August 2005). "Revisiting 1857: Benegal's Junoon". Rediff.com. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ Lokapally, Vijay (10 July 2014). "Blast from the Past: Junoon (1978)". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 September 2017.