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.
Today, Ruskin Bond remains one of the most sought after Indian authors, writing in the English language. His works describe…
Author Ruskin Bond, who has been enthralling readers for 60 long years with over a hundred novellas, short story collections,…
Beloved children’s author Ruskin Bond’s autobiography, “Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography” has been awarded this year’s Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival…
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