______ is a Sahitya Akademi Award winner and Padma Bhushan recipient. He wrote famous works like 'The Room on the Roof' and 'Vagrants in the Valley' focusing on a character named 'Rusty'.
Ruskin Bond
The clue combines a Sahitya Akademi Award, a Padma Bhushan and a set of well-known works featuring a central character named "Rusty". The Rusty stories are a semi-autobiographical set of novels and short stories set in the hill towns of North India.
Their author is Ruskin Bond, an English-language Indian writer based in Mussoorie. He wrote "The Room on the Roof" in his teens (Rusty's debut) and later "Vagrants in the Valley", both centred on the young boy Rusty. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra" and the Padma Bhushan in 2014, matching every biographical detail in the stem.
The other options do not fit: Aniruddha Bahal is a journalist-novelist known for "Bunker 13", Salman Rushdie writes very different novels such as "Midnight's Children", and Chetan Bhagat is a contemporary popular novelist with no Rusty character.
Hence, Ruskin Bond.
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