Rudyard Kipling

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Devi Kar | How Amartya’s memoirs hold some valuable lessons for life

The great advantage is that Prof. Sen writes lucidly about a stupendous range of topics and ideas that a general reader can relate to

23 Sep 2021 12:40 AM

Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | The politics of erasing Gunga Din

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19 Sep 2020 4:41 PM

Picture from a previous tour in front of Kipling cottage

Walking the line

A historical tour in Mumbai takes one through familiar places but offers unfamiliar stories.

28 Feb 2019 7:28 AM

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.

17 Aug 2018 12:23 AM

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.

23 Jul 2018 12:27 AM

The fact that Manchester University’s student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kipling’s works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)

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.

21 Jul 2018 12:33 AM

'Not appropriate,' envoy tells Britain's Boris over Kipling poem in Myanmar

Johnson replied “good stuff” and then started to take photographs of the scene with his telephone camera.

01 Oct 2017 4:17 PM

British Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AP)

UK a welfare state... Really?

In the UK, the maintenance and improvement of it has taken central political ground.

03 Jun 2017 6:45 AM

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, center, poses for a picture following the presentation of the Guidon to the Royal Lancers by Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. (Photo: AP)

For Britain, lessons from the empire as it exits EU?

If the British feel any remorse about their plunder, it is not made explicit in the arrangement of such objects.

06 Apr 2017 3:50 AM

The "Kipling Bungalow" is one of several mansions in Mumbai, once associated with famous residents but now in ruin. (Photo: AFP)

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.

18 Feb 2017 6:33 AM

SOAS, University of London (Photo: soas.ac.uk)

Can we ‘decolonise’ our minds?

Their “school” was set up in colonial times by British imperialists working through London university to train personnel in oriental.

14 Jan 2017 5:19 AM

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