Rudyard Kipling and the Indian Press

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Rudyard Kipling1865-1936

Childhood

Education

Journalist

Writer

Nobel Prize

“If..”

Interesiting factsBack to India



•Borned in Bombay, India, 30 december 1865.

Childhood, family



Education, first job



Back to India,The Civil and Military Gazette

•The Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, the newspaper which Kipling was to call "mistressand most true love", appeared six days a week throughout the year, except for one-daybreaks for Christmas and Easter.

•Stephen Wheeler, the editor, worked Kipling hard, but Kipling's need to write wasunstoppable. In 1886, he published his first collection of verse, Departmental Ditties. Thatyear also brought a change of editors at the newspaper; Kay Robinson, the new editor,

allowed more creative freedom and Kipling was asked to contribute short stories to thenewspaper.

• In an article printed in the Chums boys' annual, an ex-colleague of Kipling's stated that ..."henever knew such a fellow for ink - he simply reveled in it, filling up his pen viciously, and thenthrowing the contents all over the office, so that it was almost dangerous to approach him".

•The anecdote continues: "In the hot weather, when he (Kipling) wore only whitetrousers and a thin vest, he is said to have resembled a Dalmatian dog more than ahuman being, for he was spotted all over with ink in every direction."



Writer career,marriage

LahoreRailwayStation



Writer career,marriage

The JungleBook, firstedition



If …

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If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

IVIf you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

•Rudyard Kipling's inspirational poem “If”, first appeared in his collection “Rewards and Fairies” in 1909. Thepoem 'If' is inspirational, motivational,and a set of rules for “grown-up” living. Kipling's “If” contains mottos

and maxims for life, and the poem isalso a blueprint for personal integrity,behavior and self-development.

• “If” is perhaps even more relevanttoday than when Kipling wrote it, as anethos and a personal philosophy. Linesfrom Kipling's 'If' appear over theplayer's entrance to Wimbledon'sCentre Court - a poignant reflection ofthe poem's timeless and inspiringquality.



Nobel Prize for Literature

•In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize forLiterature. The prize citation said: "Inconsideration of the power of observation,originality of imagination, virility of ideasand remarkable talent for narration which

characterize the creations of this world-famous author."

•Nobel prizes had been established in 1901and Kipling was the first English-languagerecipient. At the award ceremonyin Stockholm on 10 December 1907, the

Permanent Secretary of the SwedishAcademy, Carl David af Wirsén, praised bothKipling and three centuries of Englishliterature.



Work as a journalist

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In 1882, assistant editor at The Civil andMilitary Gazette.

•Gradually he was allowed to report localevents himself - village festivals, riots,murder trials, the lot; and he was glad thathe had learned shorthand.

•In 1884 he was sent by the CMG to report

the Viceroy's visit to the native state ofPatiala, and scooped his rivals by riding 30miles at night to send back a dispatch,earning the congratulations of theproprietors.

•In 1885 Kipling was sent to Rawalpindi asthe CMG special correspondent to reportthe new Viceroy's ceremonial reception of

the Amir of Afghanistan - and was shot atby a tribesman while visiting the KhyberPass.

•He then went to Simla (the lively andfashionable hill-station which was thesummer seat of the Viceroy's Government)for six months as the CMG's specialcorrespondent there.

•In Simla he produced editorial notes, reviews,articles, and letters describing the social scene.

•Kipling had for some time been contributingwitty verses to the CMG satirising the ways ofGovernment officials and the Anglo-Indiancommunity. A collection of these was published(at first anonymously) with the title DepartmentalDitties; and was enthusiastically read all over

India. By the end of 1886 the name of Kiplinghad become widely known in the sub-continentas that of a gifted young writer.

•In 1887 he was transferred from (Islamic)Lahore to (Hindu) Allahabad as a special reporterfor the Pioneer, a paper which circulatedthroughout India.

•In 1888, there were published (in a series called

"The Railway Library") six paperback volumes(Soldiers Three , The Story of the Gadsbys , InBlack and White, Under the Deodars , ThePhantom Rickshaw , and Wee Willie Winkie



•In March 1889 RudyardKipling left India, aged 23, witha commission to write a seriesof travel articles for the Pioneeron his journey home via Burma,Singapore, Hong Kong, Japanand the USA. These were laterre-published in From Sea toSea .He was never to return toIndia except for a short visit tohis parents in Lahore in 1891.

•In 1915 during World War IKipling visited the Western

Front as reporter and wrote “France at War” .

Work as a journalist



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