“It is only when one reads what men wrote long ago that one realises how absolutely modern the best of the old things are.”
About Rudyard Kipling
30 December 1865–18 January 1936
Rudyard Kipling was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in the bustling colonial port of Bombay, British India, a city that would forever pulse through his veins like the monsoon rains and the clamor of its streets. He died on January 18, 1936, in London, England, at the age of seventy, his body laid to…