Rajasthan

Kipling left the strong light and darkness of India aged just five, but fortunately for his future readers, returned home aged sixteen in 1882. I found myself at Bombay where I was born, moving among sights and smells that made me deliver in the vernacular sentences whose meaning I knew not. Other Indian-born boys have told me how the same thing happened to them. After these, my English years fell away, nor ever, I think, came back in full strength. Rudyard Kipling was immediately put to work,