Rudyard Kipling’s versatile and luminous narrative

Don’t spend your time looking for something you want that can’t be found.
-Baloo (from The Jungle Book)

It’s impossible that as a child you never came across The Jungle book!

Be it a comic, poster, movie, or tv cartoon adaption. Everyone has something to remember from the popular story of a little boy who is brought up in the jungle by a pack of wolves, a black panther, and a chubby bear penned by the Anglo-Indian author Joseph Rudyard Kipling. 

Even today it is still adapted into movies with different styles & multiple sects. 

But did you ever wonder where the idea of writing about animals came from?

Well, it comes from Panchtantra & Jataka stories.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 & worked as an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which became a great inspiration for many of his works. Many of Kipling's earlier printings of books feature a ‘swastika’ and an image of an elephant holding a lotus blossom emblazoned on the cover, showing how he was influenced by Indian culture. The Sanskrit phrase for "lucky" or "well-being" and the Indian sun sign that bestows luck served as the foundation for Kipling's use of the "Swastika."

In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas, and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.  A critic describes Kipling’s works as a “versatile and luminous narrative.”

    If you are looking to start with children’s classics, Kipling is a good choice or you can pick him up to relive your childhood. You can pick his works like The Jungle Book, and The Man Who Would Be King or his poems like Mandalay, Gunga Din, The White Man's Burden & many more.    

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