If you read Kim, in the beginning they go into the museum his father was curator, and there is a character base don his father.
If you read Kim, in the beginning they go into the museum his father was curator, and there is a character base don his father.
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Indeed, Kim is my favorite of Kiplings works, and the most Indian.
The article is interesting but the end is mistaken. There should not have been a bit of disagreement between Lockwood and Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling certainly had a keen appreciation and affection for India and Indians, Kim is proof of that.
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Nice spot! Thanks!
Fonder of the Rud, sorry.
And Rudyard could tap deep into the Britsh nostalgia for Imperial India.
Here a British limey remembers the old days from his job in a London bank ("Mandalay").
But that's all shove be'ind me -
Long ago an' fur away,
An' there ain't no 'busses runnin'
From the Bank to Mandalay;
An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London
What the ten-year soldier tells:
"If you've 'eard the East a-callin',
You won't never 'eed naught else."
No! you won't 'eed nothin' else
But them spicy garlic smells,
An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees
An' the tinkly temple-bells;
On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder
Outer China 'crost the Bay!
His art is fairly nice to look at, there is a lot going on and much to see if you take the time to look.
I love those types of detailed drawings.