Kipling’s Burma and Myanmar’s Kipling

The Indian Institute of Advanced Study and the UK’s Kipling Society are holding a conference in Shimla on the theme “Kipling in India: India in Kipling” on April 26-28. Indeed, it could be claimed that Kipling’s impact on Western perceptions of Burma, now the country known as Myanmar, was almost as great as it was on foreign images of India. When tourists arrive at Yangon International Airport these days, the chances are that their heads are full of romantic notions planted there by the “Bard of the British Empire”.

from https://in.news.yahoo.com/kipling-burma-myanmar-kipling-000200676.html

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