Kipling's India

Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)

                                                         

An English poet,Rudyard kipling was born on  December 30, 1865 at Bombay, India. His father John Lockwood Kipling, himself an artist, was principal of the Jeejeebyhoy Art School.His early years in India, until he reached the age of six, seem to have been idyllic, but in 1871 the Kipling family returned to England. After six months John and Alice Kipling returned to India, leaving six-year old Rudyard and his three-year-old sister as boarders with the Holloway family in Southsea. During his five years in this foster home he was bullied and physically mistreated, and the experience left him with deep psychological scars and a sense of betrayal.


    His book " The Jungle Book " was published in 1894 based on his imaginations on Indian Jungles. 
His stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned 'man cub' Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler.....