Recently the students at Manchester University in England tore down a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “IF” and replaced it with Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise.” They gave as their reason that Kipling was ...
They replaced the wall mural with 'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou saying Kipling stood for the 'opposite of liberation, empowerment and human rights' STUDENTS painted over Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ ...
Was he an aggressive, unapologetic, booming colonialist or a deeply troubled, increasingly pessimistic anti-imperialist? An advocate of martial values and stout public-school patriotism, or a hater of ...
As a teenager in the 1960s I was caught up in the spy craze created by the James Bond films. In addition to Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, I read many other spy thrillers and I watched spy stories ...