Rudyard Kipling

You don't mess with Dhoni's fans

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is currently the blue-eyed boy of Indian cricket. The World Twenty20 win last year, the eye-popping IPL salary, the victory against world-beating Australia in the recent Test series - it seems he can do no...

Cigars In Hip-Hop Culture (Ann Knapp)

The association between smoking and creativity is an old one, almost stereotypical. In the nineteenth century the painter Edouard Manet, for example, used the upward drift of cigar smoke in his famous portrait of the celebrated...

When old soldiers were forgotten

This week large crowds watched Henry Allingham, Harry Patch and Bill Stone lay wreaths at the Cenotaph to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War. They are the conflict's last British veterans.

Library for HIV-hit children

VIJAYAWADA: It was an unusual gift for HIV positive children. Parents of the children studying in Bloomingdale Play School, the most expensive playschool in the city, along with the school staff, have given these...

The extraordinary childhood of the girl who grew up with African animals

Book cover via Amazon Tippi Degre grew up amongst some of the country’s most dangerous animals, echoing the adventures of Rudyard Kipling’s fictional character in The Jungle Book. For 10 years her “brother” was an elephant, her...

Expat life in Singapore: Sitting comfortably?

At a new exhibition in Singapore, Rosie Milne learns the Victorians' secrets of a successful photograph. Have your say Read comments Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand...

Ernest Partridge: A Man for the Season

Three times they met, face to face. The 72 year-old military and political veteran, and the 46 year-old “rookie.” And after the final debate, there was little doubt in the minds of most of the sixty million Americans who...

Cricket club fights to save ground where Rudyard Kipling played

A cricket club is fighting to save an historic 120-year-old ground where Rudyard Kipling used to play. Bideford Cricket Club in Devon is battling desperately to keep open the Victorian field ground at Westward Ho! Cricket has...

The Choice

The New Hampshire Union Leader regularly runs war poems on Veterans Day and Memorial Day. This 1917 poem, by Rudyard Kipling, is a reminder of the sacrifices this nation and its people have made to preserve their liberty.

The undisputed king of serpents

By Our Correspondent If this snake could stand on the tip of its tail, it would be able to look a grown man in the eye. What’s more, its venom is the most poisonous amongst all the venomous snakes — it can inject so much into a...

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