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Inside the War Chant That Took Over Boyle’s Zombie Flick: 28 Years Later

28 years later: Truth behind the haunting 110-year-old World War I chant; how a soldier’s breakdown became a modern horror anthem

June 21, 2025 7:20 am

A 110-year-old recording of Rudyard Kipling’s “Boots” gives 28 Years Later its most haunting moment, turning a soldier’s mental breakdown into a chilling war cry for the apocalypse.

Golliwogs, Mudbloods and fair princesses: The pervasive symbols of race and gender oppressions in children’s literature

May 30, 2024 9:15 am

Among the ones who have been accused of upholding power structures and portraying marginalised identities in a problematic manner are some of the biggest names, starting from Roald Dahl to J K Rowling, Enid Blyton and Hergé.

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New books to tell classic children's stories

January 21, 2021 2:16 pm

The contributors in these two anthologies are some of the world's finest and most-loved authors including the likes of Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy.

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Stephen Alter: “Kipling’s stories had a much darker side which Disney erased"

December 05, 2020 8:34 pm

The writer on taking forward Mowgli’s story in his latest book, Feral Dreams and recapturing the shadows and fears of the original Jungle Books

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Phantom of the Forest

February 21, 2020 6:16 pm

In a new film, wildlife filmmaker Shaaz Jung follows the only black panther in Kabini

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Kipling Bungalow: Restoration on track, likely to open to public next year

January 31, 2019 4:29 am

In 2015, state Education and Cultural Affairs Minister Vinod Tawde proposed turning the bungalow into a tourist attraction.

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Scrubbing out a poem

December 19, 2018 1:25 pm

Literature forewarns of pitfalls of easy judgements. Manchester University protests against Kipling miss the point.

How the author of The Jungle Book inspired a sauce and cocktails

April 27, 2016 5:11 pm

Rudyard Kipling may be inextricably linked with Anglo-Indian restaurants today, but back in the 1900s, his poem ‘Mandalay’ spurred the creation of exotic condiments and cocktails.

Kipling’s Burma and Myanmar’s Kipling

April 25, 2016 12:02 am

He knew little about the country, but colonised the West’s imagination about it

Babes in the Woods: Was Mowgli real? Could The Jungle Book be based on a true story?

April 25, 2016 4:20 pm

The man-cub of the Seonee wolf pack and his battle with Shere Khan continues to fascinate us. But was Mowgli real? Could Rudyard Kipling’s timeless story have been based on a real-life incident?

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The picturesque Pench and its Jungle Book connection

July 01, 2014 6:30 pm

Amodgarh in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh is the place that has apparently inspired Rudyard Kipling to pen The Jungle Book. Check out the snapshots.