India Plans Museum for Rudyard Kipling India is planning its first museum celebrating the writer Rudyard Kipling. A bungalow in Bombay, where Kipling was born and lived until he was nearly 6, is being restored to house a hoped-for collection of associated memorabilia.

India Plans Museum for Rudyard Kipling

India Plans Museum for Rudyard Kipling

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India is planning its first museum celebrating the writer Rudyard Kipling.

Although Kipling loved India, his poems express a belief in the British imperialism of the past two centuries. Despite that, a bungalow in Bombay, where Kipling was born and lived until he was nearly 6, is being restored to house a hoped-for collection of associated memorabilia.