Question: Which Indian author of British descent wrote the fictional novella "A Flight of Pigeons"?
Context: Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author.  She is best known for her novel "The God of Small Things" (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.  This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author.  She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. British Nigerian is a term sometimes used to describe British people of Nigerian descent, or Nigerian people of British descent. Truly Madly Deeply... Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!  is a romance novel written by Indian author Faraaz Kazi.  It was first published in 2010 by Cedar publishers.  The book was republished again in October 2012 and went on to become a national award-winning title apart from becoming the first book by an Indian author to win the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut (Romance).  It remains the only Indian book in the Top 100 YA Global Fiction list. British Uruguayan is a Uruguayan citizen of British descent or a British-born person residing in Uruguay.  The British community in Uruguay is small but historically significant; it numbers c. 690 British expatriates and thousands of people of British descent. British Peruviana are Peruvians of British descent.  The phrase may refer to someone born in Peru of British descent.  Among European Peruvians, the British were the fifth largest group of immigrants to settle in the country after the Spanish, Germans, Italians, the Swiss or/and the French. Junoon (Hindi: जुनून, translation: "The Obsession") is a 1978 Indian Hindi language film produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Shyam Benegal.  The film is based on Ruskin Bond's fictional novella, "A Flight of Pigeons", set around the Indian Rebellion of 1857.  The film's soundtrac was composed by Vanraj Bhatia, and cinematography by Govind Nihalani. The term Anglo-Indians can refer to at least two groups of people: those with mixed Indian and British Isles ancestry, and people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent.  The latter sense is now mainly historical, but confusions can arise.  The Oxford Dictionary, for example, gives three possibilities: "Of mixed British and Indian parentage, of Indian descent but born or living in Britain, or (chiefly historical) of British descent or birth but living or having lived long in India".  People fitting the middle definition are more usually known as British Asian or British Indian.  This article focuses primarily on the modern definition, a distinct minority community of mixed Eurasian ancestry, whose native language is English. Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author of British descent.  He lives with his adopted family in Landour, in Mussoorie, India.  The Indian Council for Child Education has recognised his role in the growth of children's literature in India.  He got the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", for his published work in English.  He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon is a 1928 children's novel by Dhan Gopal Mukerji that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1928.  It deals with the life of Gay-Neck, a prized Indian pigeon.  Mukerji wrote that "the message implicit in the book is that man and winged animals are brothers."  He stated that much of the book is based on his boyhood experiences with a flock of forty pigeons and their leader, as the boy in the book is Mukerji himself.  He did have to draw from the experiences of others for some parts of the book, such as those who trained messenger pigeons in the war.  The book offers an insight into the life of a boy of high caste during the early 1900s and also into the training of pigeons.  Several chapters are told from Gay-Neck's perspective, with the pigeon speaking in first person.  Elizabeth Seeger writes in a biographical note about Mukerji that, "Gay-Neck was written in Brittany, where every afternoon he read to the children gathered about him on the beach the chapter he had written in the morning."  In an article in the children’s literature journal "The Lion and the Unicorn", Meena G. Khorana calls the novel one of the few children’s novels from Western or Indian authors to explore the Himalayas in a meaningful way (rather than simply using them as a setting), and notes the way Mukerji recalls their “grandeur and spiritual power”. A Flight of Pigeons is a book by Indian author, Ruskin Bond.  The story is set in 1857, 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 a mix of fiction and non fiction and was adapted into a film in 1978 called "Junoon" by Shyam Benegal, starring Shashi Kapoor, his wife Jennifer Kendal, and Nafisa Ali.
Answer: Ruskin Bond