“This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.”

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.