“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”

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.