Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Jungle Book is not a jolly musical tale with jazzy numbers such as The Bare Necessities. It doesn't have an ape character called ...

One of the great joys of life, as many parents can attest, is reading to one’s children. Entered upon with imaginative openness and sensitivity, and provided the book is good, this shared experience ...

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865, in the J. J. School of Arts, of which, his father, Lockwood Kipling, was then head. His birth home still stands on the campus of the J J School ...

Mumbai: One's childhood days would have rarely skipped the chapters from The Jungle Book. The author of this popular book, ...

Mowgli is lost in the jungle, raised by wolves and befriended by a bear and a panther. Mowgli groes up and encounters his childhood sweetheart. Her suitor takes offence to the boy and forces him to ...

Sarah Lonsdale is the author of The Journalist in British Fiction and Film, Bloomsbury, 2016. Sixteen-year-old Rudyard Kipling returned to India after a miserable childhood, and slightly less ...

Earlier this summer I was on a panel at a literary conference where I happened to say that Rudyard Kipling was a wonderful writer. Immediately, a number of people in the audience began to boo and hiss ...

The author of one of the best-known children’s books of all time had a house in Vermont that’s open for tours this month. British author Rudyard Kipling wrote his most-famous story, “The Jungle Book,” ...