Show I KIPLING REPUDIATED In la his poems and nd novels on In In- In Indin India din dla Kipling did much to brIng the people of that ancient to the attention of ot the tho outside world but the ho he natives es do dc donot not think or of o Kipling as their friend Inot land and one of ot them a Calcutta liter literary ary at critic nukes make this thit Ihl comment I Kipling has a wide vogue ogue but bul buthis buthIs his Indian heroes and heroines are I most wicked Ho lIo ne never neer er identifIed ed himself with aith Indias India's cause He was wai wasa a 11 mere Journalist on the staff ol ot olMi nn Mi Anglo Indian daIly and I am an afraid like most Anglo Indian jour jour- journalists cr ac Ie or cultivated the ao ac- ac acquaintance of or leading Indian Nat Nat- Naturally his tales lales are not true truo pic plc mIca es ot of o Hindu life as the re ret review l wl era ers ot of his books boos would have the public belle believe It will III be news to many that he III is very ver- much dis- dis II tell cod b by the Indians generally his books arc not read largely by the Ibe I Indus Hindus and amI who ho ho loa look upon him as a writer who has been beyond be ond his worth orth 1 Kipling gh gives gies es the white mana view ot of the tho Indians and ho to present the better side of ot the nath es ot or India and therefore b ht I repudiated by them But Kip Ilp Kipling ling should have had an Intimate understanding of or the people for tor hn hA lived among them the th tb greater grealer part ot or his life |