![]() ![]() (The building Kipling was born in is now the Dean’s residence on the campus of the Sir J.J. ![]() ![]() The couple had moved to India earlier that year, and had met each other two years before at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England - so overwhelmed by the beauty of the lake that they named their first and only son, Rudyard. Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 to Alice Kipling (MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling, then a professor of architectural sculpture at the newly founded Jejeebhoy School of Art and Industry in Bombay. Third, Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 (now one hundred years ago), the first English writer (and also the youngest one ever) to win this award, partly because of his masterpiece, Kim (the subject matter of this article) which is intimately linked with Himalayan mountains, foothills, rivers, towns, plains and peoples. Second, some of Kipling’s best-known literary works are related to the Indian subcontinent, thus depicting this important part of our planet during an important period of world history. ![]() First, Rudyard Kipling, a pioneer of the short story in English and dubbed by some critics as the British Empire’s poet, was born (and lived the first six years of his life) in Bombay (Mumbai - the headquarters of the Himalayan Club). There are several reasons to share this article with the readers of Himalayan Journal. Thou must learn how to make pictures of roads and mountains and rivers - to carry these pictures in thine eyes till a suitable time comes to set them down upon paper. ![]()
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