Mumbai: One's childhood days would have rarely skipped the chapters from The Jungle Book. The author of this popular book, Rudyard Kipling, was born in Mumbai on December 30, 1865. December 30, 2025, ...

The King is said to be selective when it comes to what technology THE King is stepping into a new TV frontier as his Christmas Day speech will be available in virtual reality. The annual festive ...

While the New York mayor-elect is constantly smiling in the face of his detractors, having a perma-grin didn’t come so easily to me As a big fan of citizen science, I have spent the past month ...

Throughout English-speaking history, up until about 50 years ago, there had always been men famous in their day for writing beautiful poetry, from William Shakespeare, to Lord Byron, to Robert Frost.

There is a disjunction at the heart of children’s literature. It is that the placing of words and brushstrokes, the arranging of every publishing deal and the selling and buying of every book, is ...

The British painter William Nicholson (1872-1949) has featured in several exhibitions at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, in recent years. His complicated, much misunderstood, ...

Ohio State is the model to follow. Not Indiana. Not Colorado. Not Oregon. Since expanding to 10-game seasons in 1968, Ohio State has been remarkably consistent — winning eight or more games in every ...

Oct 18, 2025; Iowa City, Iowa, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions interim head coach Terry Smith enters Kinnick Stadium before the game against the Iowa Hawkeyes. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn ...

The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun. By Brian Seibert Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American ...

The late English writer Rudyard Kipling’s 1896 Dummerston horse barn is set to become a short-term apartment rental. Photo courtesy of Landmark Trust USA DUMMERSTON — The nonprofit Landmark Trust USA ...

A new “Great Game” is unfolding in the Caucasus and Central Asia, echoing the nineteenth-century rivalry between empires, with a modern, multipolar twist. The term “Great Game” refers to the ...

A Victorian home in Tisbury, England, where author Rudyard Kipling and artist Paul Hardy once lived has hit the market for £3.6 million (US$4.9 million). Known as the Arundell House, the home dates to ...