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Untraced for 30 long years, Ruskin Bond transcript that became Bestseller

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Untraced for 30 long years, Ruskin Bond transcript that became Bestseller
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For words are all that is magic for a writer, they are life changer for a legendary writer who finds them after decades. Taking the audience by a storm, Ruskin Bond has always been a humble and a loved writer. A gap in the foothills, shadows of lychee trees, long walks in the narrow lanes of Dalanwala in Dehradun, and sojourns in the jungle which open ways to hidden treasures of books is usually what we discover in his books. But this one is a special one, a book found after 30 years! The manuscript of Ruskin Bond’s novella was written in 1956 that remained untraced for 30 long years. The script was later published and went on to become a bestseller. His new book ‘Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas’ published by Aleph brings together some of the finest works of Bond’s over five-decade illustrious writing career. Untraced for 30 long years, Ruskin Bond transcript that became Bestseller “I wrote ‘Time Stops at Shamli’ in 1956, shortly after ‘The Room on the Roof’ was published, and I couldn’t find anyone to publish it. Twenty thousand words long just wasn’t the right length. My typescript was finally lost in the post, but a carbon copy (there were no Xerox machines in those days) had found its way into P Lal’s Writers Workshop in Calcutta, and he put it away and forgot about it too,” says Ruskin Bond. “About thirty years later, when he was cleaning out his office, he came across my transcript and very kindly sent it back to me.” “This must be a record of sorts for a manuscript to be ‘under consideration’,” Ruskin Bond added. In 1987, a publication asked Bond to send over some of his works he sent them hundreds of stories, short and long, including the unpublished ‘Shamli’. It later went on and got published as ‘Time Stops at Shamli’ and remains one of his most successful books in history. “So much for my novella,” says Bond. ‘Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas’ includes stories like ‘Time Stops at Shamli’ (written in 1956 and published for the first time in 1987), ‘The Blue Umbrella’, which has been a bestseller for last 40 years, ‘Angry River’, which was a longer work when it was first written, ‘Bus Stop, Pipalnagar’, ‘Night of the Leopard’, ‘The Last Tiger’ and ‘Tales of Fosterganj’, his latest novella, which was published in 2013.-
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