<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, where a little girl, Binya, trades her old leopard claw necklace for a pretty, frilly blue umbrella . In the village the shopkeeper (Ram Bharosa) keeps an old ruined shop and sells warm Coca Cola bottles due to no refrigerator and sells sweets to the school going kids as a credit and regains his money as an axe and an earing etc...For him an umbrella is a precious thing to have . The people in the village become very fond of her umbrella . Soon the shopkeeper becomes envious of the umbrella and tries to buy it from Binya but she refuses . </P> <P> As time passes by, Ram Bharosa's desire to get the umbrella also increases . The schools get closed due to the arrival of the monsoon and Ram Bharosa employs a boy from the next village named Rajaram to work at the shop . When Rajaram comes to know about his master's desire to own the umbrella, he offers to steal it for him . The shopkeeper unable to gain control on his craving, accepts it . Rajaram makes an attempt to steal the umbrella but fails and on being caught, he gives Ram Bharosa's name . Now everyone stopped coming to Ram Bharosa's shop . However, Binya realizes her mistake and that she shouldn't have shown off her umbrella because for now, due to it, Ram Bharosa was suffering . In the end, Binya gives the umbrella to Ram Bharosa, who returns her favor in future by gifting her a necklace with a bear's claw . </P>

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