: Book readers were in a minority even six-seven decades ago, but now their numbers have grown, celebrated author Ruskin Bond said here on Friday.
Recalling his days in school, the 80-year-old author said there were no televisions, no internet or video games, which we blame now for the absence of reading habit, but even then out of 35 boys in his class only two to three were actually fond of reading books.
“Actually the reading habit is not absent, its always been a minority pastime,” he said after the inauguration of the Kolkata Literary Meet at the Victoria Memorial here.
“We had a good library. We had no distractions. Once in a while we went to cinemas, but reading was always limited to a few people,” said the author.
PTI
