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Detailed explanation-1: -Coming Round the Mountain: Ruskin Bond’s memoir, ‘Coming Round the Mountain’, out on author’s 85th birthday - The Economic Times.

Detailed explanation-2: -India’s beloved children’s author Ruskin Bond is celebrating his 85th birthday today, May 19 with the release of a new memoir set against the backdrop of the partition.

Detailed explanation-3: -The original song was published in Old Plantation Hymns in 1899. It ostensibly refers to the Second Coming of Christ and subsequent Rapture, with the she referring to the chariot that the returning Christ is depicted as driving.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from three years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India, and now lives in Mussoorie with his adopted family.

Detailed explanation-5: -The song was originally published in Old Plantation Hymns in 1899. All of these point to the Second Coming, or the return of Jesus Christ to the known world. In this way, the “she” in the song is actually the chariot, not a person, and Christ is the one in the driver’s position.