OR. Weite dialogue between you & Ruskin Bond য়
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Question 1 – How did your passion for writing begin?
Answer 1(Mr. Ruskin Bond) – In school actually, I was found of reading, so gradually it started and I wanted to emulate my favorite authors and become a writer and by the time I left school , I was writing and getting published too and my first novel came out when I was 17.
Question 2 – You have been writing for quite a long time, what you think about the upcoming young authors?
Answer 2 – Even though there are so many now, in different genres of writing with fresh ideas, it’s good to see them being serious about writing. Most of them will get establishes and some maybe not, so it’s also a matter of chance that plays a part and of course talent matters.
Question 3 – Nature is a widely covered part of your writing, why so?
Answer 3 – Yes nature is a topic which I write about a lot , flower and fauna especially up in the hills; living in the hills for so long has made nature a part of my life and its thus it gets reflected in my writing.
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Where have you been so long”, Bond asked me, before I could settle down. “I was thinking of doing a story when you called me up the other day. Somebody phoned after five or six years and I thought it had been a long time. He would come and see me tomorrow. And then tomorrow comes right now. Then the bell rings. I get up, go up to the door. There’s nobody there. I come back. There comes another knock on the door. I get up, open it. Nobody there again. Like Walter de La Mare stuff. He comes and becomes invisible! I just made it up!” I asked Souromi, my daughter, to take random notes as the conversation was being recorded in my Android.
But often Ruskin, with his great sense of humour, had both of us in splits, and, as a consequence, she missed the boat frequently, laughing as she did to her heart’s content.
When our conversation came to an end after one and a half hours, he called Rakesh, son of Prem with whom he first took occupation of Ivy Cottage, “Baba, please give us some water, tea and juice.