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Why ruskin bond says'this world would be nicer than most'?

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The pen is always mightier for Ruskin Bond who has used it all his life and finds a typewriter tedious.In this age of laptops and tablets, the compulsive writer still prefers the pen and paper."I've used it all my life. I used to write with a typewriter once, but now that's tedious. I enjoy writing by hand," he told PTI in an interview.For the versatile writer that 78-year-old Sahitya Akademi Award winner is, writing over the years has been almost a compulsion."More like something I had to do. Regardless of whether I was getting published or not, I would still be writing. I've been writing regularly over the past 60 years, so it's just a part of who I am," he says.Very often, he incorporates real life incidents and characters in his stories."Some stories are almost true, while others have been based on real people or incidents and fictionalised to a certain extent. A mixture you might say."The Mussoorie resident, who has just come out with his new book of poems Hip-Hop Nature Boy and Other Poems, is now working on a novel called Maharani.He may have written novels and short stories for adults but Bond says "I'm better known as a kids' writer."And on writing poems, he says, "I don't write them regularly, but every once in a while I get into a poetic frame of mind and write a few verses or a poem." Of late, his books have been adapted into several films in Bollywood and he also featured in Vishal Bharadwaj's 7 Khoon Maaf but Bond does not have any plan to write a script for a movie."I don't have any plans to write a script. At least not in the near future. Even the stories that have been made into films were stories that I wrote without cinema in mind," he says.Beautiful, poignant and funny, Hip-Hop Nature Boy and Other Poems deals with nature, love, friends, school and books. This is also