There's a 'Kipling Society' in England devoted to keeping his name alive and looking after the house where he lived in England. How about getting in touch with them about saving Kipling's bungalow in Allahabad?. Of course, they may already be aware of the state of affairs. Anyway, I'll do a bit of scouting around and see if the Kipling Society would be interested in helping. His home in England is called "Bateman's". Hazel Craig

I used to be a member of this Society once upon a time. They are quite nice folks, but like all such fan clubs all over the world, they are perpetually in need of the coin of the realm - cash, the moolah, dough! No harm in trying, though. OTOH, diehard Kipling-bashers, specially in India, are likely to feel far from gruntled, if such a plan does materialize ... --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar ----- Original Message ----- from Hazel Craig There's a 'Kipling Society' in England devoted to keeping his name alive and looking after the house where he lived in England. How about getting in touch with them about saving Kipling's bungalow in Allahabad? Of course, they may already be aware of the state of affairs. Anyway, I'll do a bit of scouting around and see if the Kipling Society would be interested in helping. --- ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: > <snip> they are perpetually in need of the coin of the > realm - cash, the moolah, dough! <snip> > Aren't we all? > OTOH, diehard Kipling-bashers, specially in India, are likely > to feel far from gruntled, if such a plan does materialize ... True enough, but however hard they may be they seem to be a dying, (or at least a shrinking), breed. It now appears less fashionable to bash his works; people are now accepting that he portrays the feelings of his times - however unacceptable some of them seem today. His: When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brain An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. suddenly took on a new relevance some few years ago. Yours Aye Andrew Sellon. A just and necessary war costs this country about one hundred pounds a minute; whipcord fifteen thousand pounds; red tape seven thousand pounds; lace for drummers and fifers, nineteen thousand pounds; a pension to one man who has broken his head at the Pole; to another who has shattered his leg on the Equator; subsidies to Persia; secret service money to Thibet; an annuity to Lady Henry Somebody and her seven daughters – the husband being shot at some place where we never ought to have had any soldiers at all. Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.

Kipling-bashers will certainly not approve of any Indian Govt or even general Indian help in preserving his heritage. Mandeep On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar < bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > I used to be a member of this Society once upon a time. > They are quite nice folks, but like all such fan clubs all over > the world, they are perpetually in need of the coin of the > realm - cash, the moolah, dough! No harm in trying, though. > > OTOH, diehard Kipling-bashers, specially in India, are likely > to feel far from gruntled, if such a plan does materialize ... > > --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > ----- Original Message ----- from Hazel Craig > > There's a 'Kipling Society' in England devoted to keeping his name alive > and looking after the house where he lived in England. How about getting > in touch with them about saving Kipling's bungalow in Allahabad? Of course, > they may already be aware of the state of affairs. Anyway, I'll do a bit > of > scouting around and see if the Kipling Society would be interested in > helping. > --- > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >