Mumbai: One's childhood days would have rarely skipped the chapters from The Jungle Book. The author of this popular book, ...

Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

Star Wars is back. After the long drought post Revenge of the Sith, fans have been blessed with the Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. With a Han Solo movie on the horizon, it's time to get your ...

Kipling is associated with sentimental children’s fiction or tub-thumping racism, but his best fiction captures the horrors of empire, acted out by colonisers and subjects alike. By Andrew Glazzard ...

STUDENTS at Manchester University have painted over a wall mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, replacing it with “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The incident took place in the University’s Student ...

John Kipling went missing in action at the Battle of Loos, in northern France, one hundred years ago, on September 27, 1915. The eighteen-year-old lieutenant was likely the most widely searched-for ...

Letters dating back to 1915 have been discovered which show author Rudyard Kipling appealing for information about his son, who went missing on the Western Front during World War One. The writer and ...

Posterity, it appears, still can't quite make up its mind about Rudyard Kipling. As Christopher Hitchens reminded us in his essay in the June 2002 Atlantic, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions," few ...

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Letters sent by author Rudyard Kipling appealing for information about his son, who went missing on the Western Front during World War One, have sold for more than £1,200 at auction. The letters date ...