However, despite many obstacles, it appears that college and university students in India are still fighting to make space for books in their lives, exhibiting a wide range of reading preferences, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama.
Apart from the satisfaction of being in conversation with writers and artists, I sometimes, as a happy bonus, had a walk or two with the likes of novelist I Allan Sealy and travel writer Bill Aitken after the interview was over.
Talking about the heavily illustrated book, Bond says that they are vital for a children's storybook. "I have always been fortunate to have excellent illustrators." The illustrations in the latest one are by Kashmira Sarode.
"A Song of India marks 70 years of my long writing career which began when I was sixteen. In these seven decades, I have written hundreds of stories for children and just as many for adults too, and I am still continuing to do so.
The 8-day-long festival not only featured some of India’s most beloved authors of children’s books as speakers, but it also enjoyed a viewership of over 1 million on YouTube.
The annual education conference at Bengal Chamber of Commerce witnessed a creative exchange on redefining education to address modern challenges.
I usually do most of my writing in the morning before breakfast. After breakfast, I get drowsy and take a pre-lunch nap.
Digital era to some extent has robbed the children of their innocence and drew them apart from nature, says the writer famous for his writings for children
Tharoor is a bestselling author of 18 books and has a proven track record of producing literary works, both in fiction and non-fiction, that have lasting relevance.
Ruskin Bond according to the publisher’s jacket cover is “one of India’s greatest writers.” Born in 1934, he has written…
