Fears of a storm of belated anti-British Raj feeling have scuppered plans to erect a new shrine to Rudyard Kipling in part of the Mumbai house where his father once lived. Would Kipling care? Almost certainly not. Firstly, Kipling was a man who felt he... Full Article at Times of India

“Never give up trying.” The play was created from a class assignment Albero’s class did on Rudyard Kipling’s animal stories. The study sparked the writing of student stories about how animals may have gotten one of their body parts or personality traits. Full Article at Naples Daily News

Oh goody! Another insufferable movie about the tragic, but treatable failings of the people of color who can be saved by the loving benevolence of the white folks. Rudyard Kipling, eat your heart out. As long as there’s humans, Thers, you’ll have a... Full Article at Firedoglake

Ross, as we all know, went on to win a Nobel Prize for the breakthrough. The duo also meet a bright but opinionated young journalist called Rudyard Kipling who is gathering material for what would become Kim, considered his best novel. The rest of the... Full Article at India Today

But on Saturday, Gloucester will host its first Captains Courageous Festival, honoring both Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel, "Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks," and Gloucester's cultural heritage. Kipling's novel features Harvey Cheyne Jr.... Full Article at The Salem News, MA

Light me another Cuba — I hold to my first-sworn vows. If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no Maggie for Spouse! See Wikisource for the full text of Departmental Ditties; and The New Readers' Guide to the works of Rudyard Kipling, a superb... Full Article at JSBlog

Well it was a fun place (probably like Las Vegas is viewed today), as they said in those days - The presence of many bachelors and unattached men, as well as the many women passing the hot weather there, gave Simla a reputation for adultery, and at... Full Article at DesiPundit

I nod and look out the window, soaking up the strangeness of it all. A rush of excitement replaces any anxiety I had about  visiting the country with the world’s longest-running military dictatorship. Burma, Rudyard Kipling once wrote, is “quite... Full Article at Globe and Mail

Scottish performance crashed in mid-air on the final roller with the winner’s enclosure in sight. A Scottish victory would have been one of the finest in the modern era against a team including no less than eleven 2009 Lions, but it wasn’t to be. The... Full Article at STV

His first vivid memories were of an early childhood in Bombay, ‘light and colour and golden and purple fruits’ in the market with his ayah, or visits with his bearer to little Hindu temples where ‘I held his hand and looked at the dimly-seen, friendly... Full Article at Spectator Magazine

The other supporting actor nominees are Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds", Matt Damon ("Invictus"), Stanley Tucci ("The Lovely Bones") and Woody Harrelson ("The Messenger"). On film, Plummer has brought audiences iconic people such as... Full Article at Backstage

“We understand the public outrage about the number of tenders Malema has procured, but we urge South Africans to re-visit Rudyard Kipling’s sketch about the Limpopo in The Elephant’s Child”. “Limpopo has always been a troubled part of the country;... Full Article at Thought Leader

A paean to the then-burgeoning colonial project, it was truly a product of its time. The days of colonialism are past; however, the mentality that motivated it — that the West is morally obligated to bring its “light” to uncultured non-Westerners — is... Full Article at Cornell Daily Sun

Plans for a museum in Rudyard Kipling's Mumbai home commemorating the writer have been shelved following concerns that a memorial to the renowned imperialist and chronicler of the British Raj would be politically unpalatable. But is it time for Indians... Full Article at History News Network

It's part of the pledge originally written by Rudyard Kipling in "The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer". Legend has it that the iron was taken from the scraps of a bridge in the province of Quebec that, due to shoddy work on the part of the... Full Article at AutoblogGreen

But is it time for Indians to reappraise him? Nearly 75 years after his death, the poet and author Rudyard Kipling remains as celebrated and controversial as ever. The man who created the popular image - or myth - of the British Raj, has gone through... Full Article at BBC News

The most famous classic poems pose a question for us. Why them? Of the plethora of poems from centuries of rhyming thought, why have these emerged as the best loved, best remembered? There is no single common denominator to the most famous classic poems Full Article at Associated Content

I just wanted to go to that building, which used to be my first home (certainly not second) during 1971-76, and sit in the quietness of its lawn on a certain bench and gaze at the old Bodhi tree in front of what used to be the Institute of Chemistry in... Full Article at The News

It had spiked to 104 degrees and brought with it seizures, spasms of movement that terrified her parents. They called 911. Leonard Pitts Jr.But paramedics could not reach their door; the epic blizzard raking greater Washington had rendered their... Full Article at Oregon Live