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Dear Robbie White If a brown man wrote as beautifully as Kipling did, he would certainly have achieved comparable fame, may be even more, being a rara avis. Though not so rare as all that. Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)achieved fame and won the Nobel Prize in 1913. Kipling (1865-1936) won his earlier but they were contemporaries, and although Tagore wrote beautifully, Kipling was the more prolific. Best wishes Sharad Keskar, Secretary & Editor >From: Robbie White <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Robbie White <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Kipling, a man of his time >Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:53:41 +0800 > >To all those learned people, as well as those who, like myself, are not so >learned but just enjoy the writings and poems of RK, I put this question: > >Would RK have had the same impact on the literary scene of his day (and >since then) if the colour of his skin had been brown or black? If he had >been an Indian or half-caste Indian, would he have been given the same >honour that he (deservedly) received as an Englishman? > >Cheerio and regards > >Robbie White >Australia _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.