A prep (junior) school in Oxford, known improbably as the Dragon, had since the 1920s named one of its boarding houses Gunga Din after the character in Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem. Last month the ...

"Kipling's poem was of its time and it is no longer appropriate to continue using the name Gunga Din." Kipling’s poem, published in 1890, is written from the point of view of a British soldier in ...

In 1947, a V-twin Vincent with a clapped-out, rattling engine was turned over to the British motorcycle company's development department to serve as a test hack for go-faster bits, which rolled open ...

Three generations of our family were served well by a non-human member. He was named Gunga Din after a faithful servant in a Rudyard Kipling tale. Gunga, a 1931 Model A Ford Roadster, was a gift to my ...

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Oscar-winning sound designer, editor and mixer Ben Burtt (“Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”) and Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Craig Barron (“The Curious ...

Directed by George Stevens, “Gunga Din” was a major hit in a year full of some of Hollywood’s greatest motion pictures, including “Gone With the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz.” It was the most expensive ...