Delighted, says Ruskin Bond on joining Twitter

January 23, 2016 14:32

Noted author Ruskin Bond, who has kept himself aloof from social networking sites like Facebook, has finally opened an account on Twitter.

"Hello world, Delighted to be on Twitter," wrote the 81-year-old writer in his first tweet.

Bond, who has written over 500 short stories, essays and novellas and more than 40 books for children, has said most of his initial stories were fictional narratives of actual experiences.

"A lot of my earlier stories are actual experiences, characters, experiences and situations, which I then turned into fictional narratives," he said earlier at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival.

Bond is an author associated with publisher Penguin Random House, who announced at the literary festival, its partnership with Twitter India to introduce its Twitter Books vertical in the country.

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