Ruskin Bond Conferred Lifetime Achievement Award

    • Publish Date: Nov 28 2016 11:39AM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 28 2016 11:48AM
Ruskin Bond Conferred Lifetime Achievement Award

Author Ruskin Bond was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution in the field of literature on the opening day of the Times Lit Fest here on Saturday. In the course of a conversation with writer Paro Anand immediately after receiving the award, he reminded his young readers of climate change. "Nature has been really kind to me. So I think I can give back to nature by celebrating it. I am not an activist but I can celebrate it in my writings," he said and paused to think.

"For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we should try and save the planet," he said. Ruskin Bond, whose stories have shaped many chidhoods, today said that storytelling is a "blend of factual fiction" and all his stories have been "genuine lies". "All my stories are genuine lies. A story is often a blend of fiction and non-fiction. In order to tell an interesting story, you have to churn things around, like change time sequences. So, storytelling becomes a blend of factual fiction," he said.

For Bond, who was speaking at the Times LitFest here, no subject is as intriguing as a living person and his surroundings, vindicating the recurrence of both in nearly all his stories. "People are the stories. People and nature give me beautiful thoughts and I put those thoughts in my work. If you look for 'beautiful' in life you will find it very often," he said. Bond was also felicitated with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the literary event. Having spent most of his life in the lap of the Himalayas in a quaint cottage in Landour, the 82-year-old writer has been in close proximity with nature, which he said has been rapidly degrading, thanks to the development drives carried out by human beings.

"Nature has always inspired me to write, and I have responded to it in my stories. God has created beautiful things but has put human beings in-charge. But, unfortunately we have not done a really good job in preserving it. "The urban spaces are apparent everywhere and all this combines to take away the charm of the surroundings," he said. According to Bond, who recently came out with a series of eight murder mysteries, social media has changed the way people read, even though reading continues to remain a "minority past-time".

"Social media is changing the way people read. Even though a vast majority still prefers the natural book, younger people are also reading e-books. And as far as number of readers go, I think they are far more today. "In my schooldays, though we had a very good library, there were just two or three boys who were fond of reading. Reading has always been a minority past-time and it still is, but since the minority has grown, the number of readers has also increased," he said. - Agencies

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Aadrit Banerjee Apeejay School Salt Lake

I like Ruskin Bond''s stories the best. I cherish them reading for they finely delineate life''s little miracles and sorrow. His power to describe things is so great that often I feel that I am a part of the story. I like his ghost stories the best. Truly Bond''s ghosts are a class apart.

Prakash.B Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

He just deserves it...

Aman.kumar Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

Ruskin Bond your stories are best in the world

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