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1 month ago

Samantha Ruth Prabhu posts poem by Rudyard Kipling; Arjun Kapoor calls it ‘inspiration’

Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu posted a poem by Rudyard Kipling on her Instagram, claiming the poem has been a ‘guiding light’ for her. Samantha Ruth Prabhu called If by Rudyard Kipling her 'guiding light' and Arjun Kapoor agreed. Samantha on If— by Rudyard Kipling Samantha posted two pages of If— by Rudyard Kipling on her Instagram, writing, “This poem has …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles

Associated Press

DETROIT — Just before 2 a.m. on a chilly April night in Seattle, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup stopped at an electric vehicle charging station on the edge of a shopping center parking lot. Two years ago, according to Electrify America, which runs the nation’s second-largest network of direct-current fast chargers, a cable might be cut perhaps every six months at …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Mr Kipling owner Premier Foods’ profits soar despite price cuts

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Mr Kipling owner Premier Foods …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Six books you didn’t know were propaganda

Hindustan Times

“ALL ART is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell in 1940, “but not all propaganda is art.” Few people would argue with the second part of that aphorism. Many readers have admired what one critic called Kipling’s “positive, detailed and non-stereotypic portrait” of Indian people. “Reading Lolita in Tehran” was an instant hit in America, spending 117 weeks on the New York …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The 100 greatest children's books: Who voted?

BBC

The 100 greatest children's books: Who voted? Ich bin wie der Fluss Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp – Literary translator and children's book consultant, United Kingdom 1. Le temps des secrets Dr Melanie Ramdarshan Bold – Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom 1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Chris Smith – Children's author and broadcaster, United Kingdom …

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3 years ago

Rudyard Kipling’s original Jungle Book manuscript out in 1,000 copies

Hindustan Times

Rachel Lopez HT Image [email protected] In Rudyard Kipling’s own mind, The Jungle Book wasn’t quite a cute Disney story. Kipling’s original manuscript, archived in the British Library since 1940s, was thus far accessible only to researchers. The manuscript, covering 173 sheets and released on November 25, contains stories from both The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. The book …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Kishwar Desai | Question, not cancel, Kipling; murky twist to Diana plot claim

Deccan Chronicle

Rudyard Kipling’s racism has been the worst kept secret in India — and possibly in the UK too, where, undoubtedly, his poetry and literature continue to be read. Thus English Heritage may have done the wise thing by not removing the blue plaque it had placed for controversial authors like him and Enid Blyton on the streets where they lived …

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3 years, 8 months ago

The squire from Tikli Bottom

The Hindu

There is nothing more poignant in a faraway land than stumbling across a remnant of your native culture, marooned thousands of miles away. My host, Martin Howard, was an ‘exuberant, Kipling-quoting, salty-humored old India hand’, who, with his elegant wife, Annie, lived here, at the delightfully-named Tikli Bottom. Annie, breezy in turquoise block print and beaming welcome, thrust some tinsel …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Farrukh Dhondy | The politics of erasing Gunga Din