This is a man who was born in India and spoke Hindi before he spoke English, who encountered London as a foreign city, flirted with the idea of taking US citizenship- and only finally put down roots- in Sussex- in middle age.
You should read Jane Gardam's Old Filth (2004), if you have not already. Aside from being a really terrific novel, it's a story about Raj orphans and partly a fantasia on Kipling's "Baa Baa, Black Sheep," therefore on the life of Kipling himself.
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Date: 2010-02-14 05:36 pm (UTC)You should read Jane Gardam's Old Filth (2004), if you have not already. Aside from being a really terrific novel, it's a story about Raj orphans and partly a fantasia on Kipling's "Baa Baa, Black Sheep," therefore on the life of Kipling himself.