“There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer, born in British India

Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer, born in British India. He is remembered for writing across several forms, with a body of work shaped in part by the place of his birth. Kipling wrote journalism, fiction, and poetry, and British India left a clear mark on his imagination and themes. His work often reflects imperial settings and the world he knew from early life, which gave his writing a distinctive historical and geographic texture.