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Article: Rudyard Kipling's Allahabad bungalow in a shambles
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- June 8, 2008
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Allahabad, June 8 -- A bungalow close to Allahabad University where Rudyard Kipling - the renowned author of such classics as "Kim" and "The Jungle Book" - lived for a year in the late 19th century is now in a shambles.
With successive governments in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and Allahabad University turning down requests from the bungalow's owners to purchase it, it is gradually collapsing for want of upkeep. A major portion of the land where it was built has already been sold off.
Kipling had lived in the bungalow, located on 1,300 square yards of land next to the Motilal Nehru Road, from 1888 to 1889 ...