Rudyard Kipling
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Kipling’s Panchayat of the Gods
The lines certainly smack of racism along with Kipling’s advice to the then American president that America had a ‘moral duty’ in the Philippines.
Of Kipling, modern monarchy ruling the UK and women taking over the world
When the poem If was painting over, we were reminded of what Kipling actually stood for.
Erasing ‘If’ won’t affect Kipling’s work
The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don’t want to see on the walls of what is their building.
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Johnson replied “good stuff” and then started to take photographs of the scene with his telephone camera.
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If the British feel any remorse about their plunder, it is not made explicit in the arrangement of such objects.
Culture & the Raj: A look back
Rudyard’s fame has overshadowed the career and contribution of his father, so the exhibition is a welcome reminder.