<P> The Blue Umbrella is a 1980 Indian novel written by Ruskin Bond . It was adapted into 2005 Hindi film by the same name, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which later won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film . In 2012, the novel was adapted into a comic by Amar Chitra Katha publications, titled, The Blue Umbrella--Stories by Ruskin Bond, and included another story, Angry River . This story appeared in Bond's collection of short stories, Children's Omnibus . </P> <P> In a small village of Himachal Pradesh, there lived a little girl, Binya . In the village the shopkeeper keeps an old ruined shop and sells warm Coca Cola bottles and sweets to the school going kids . Binya has been given a beautiful blue umbrella by Japanese tourists in exchange of her leopard claw pendant . The people in the village of Himachal Pradesh become very fond of her umbrella . Soon the shopkeeper becomes envious of the umbrella and tries to buy it from Binya by telling her that this is a' fancy umbrella' small girls should not have it, he tried his best to buy the umbrella but Binya refuses by saying that, "This is not for sale ." </P>

Short story of ruskin bond the blue umbrella