Show KIPLING KILLING AS SEEN THROUGH HINDU EYES What a a. pity that Kipling docs does not describe describe de de- scribe scriba mo more e scenes that ho he has witnessed ltd He could have described scenes of ot Indian life Ufe that continually continually- passed under his notice nolice He might have ha entered the massive massive mas mas- sive palaces of ot pompous rajahs and the humble humbIe home of ot the poverty tr pea peasant nt and told us In his wonderful language language lan lan- guage what he saw there Instead he lie has spoken Indifferently of or what he the heard Kipling had such mh great opportunities For Instance take lake the story of Kim The character ot Kim Aim has been heen treated In Ina ina a a. similar wa way to that of ot Hamlet According According According Ac Ac- cording to Mr l Lord the editor of oC a Dar- Dar Darjeeling newspaper the Pall Mall Hall Kim Is no other than Tim Doolan Jr Shortly after the so 60 called Indian mutiny of 1857 1851 a company of British soldiers were garrisoned gar sar- garrisoned on the dreary sunless s heights of a 0 peak of the Himalayas not far tar from Darjeeling There Thero th the sun shines on an average of or three days ys a a. year ear and anel there a romantic Irish sergeant fell In love with a beautiful Tibetan girl Tho The sergeants sergeant's name namo was as Tim Doolan He eloped with the Tibetan beauty cauty and crossed the frontier to live live- with her people people peo peo- pIe ion on the borderland Nothing more was heard of Doolan for another twenty years cars when his hisson son Tim Tiro Doolan Jr was arrested In the market place in Darjeeling for tor murder Young Doolan wa was very fair in complexion with blue bile Irish eyes and red hair although he spoke ani only Tibetan The British authorities looked him over ove suspiciously suspiciously- and wondered wondered wondered won won- dered at nt the Irish type and arid Irish name Later papers b belonging longing to Tim Doolan the sergeant establishing the tho origin and Identity of ot the son were found on In the then n accused used who like Uke Kim valued tho the papers papers pa pa- pers as 85 a n. charm The sergeants sergeant's rifle rUlo and aid side arms were ere also aleo found afterward in Doolans Doolan's hut The half bait casto caste son was waR executed for tor murder The story Is well known all over India an and 1 from such trail tall material Kipling cr created crated Kim But Kipling is hi not an authority on In India In- In dia or things Indian He la Is only onh a writer of the life of of ot foreigners In riot not India not ot of or Indian life A. A. A R R. Roy Sarath-Roy In the February number of ot the tho North Korth American Revl Review eo |