Born on December 30
Rudyard Kipling's Birthday
Mowgli, Kim and the Just So Stories.
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Where it comes from
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, now Mumbai, on 30 December 1865, and this Story marks his birthday. Sent to relatives in England at six, he returned to India at 17 to work for newspapers in Lahore and Allahabad, and India filled his writing, from Plain Tales from the Hills to Kim, the story of a boy's adventures…
How it's celebrated
There is no organised observance. It is a good evening to read one of the Just So Stories (1902) aloud at bedtime, or to set The Jungle Book beside Disney's 1967 film and see how much the two stories differ.
Did you know
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 at the age of 41, he is still the youngest literature laureate.
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Star sign
Capricorn · December 22 – January 19 · Earth sign
Patient and ambitious, climbing steadily to the top.