Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. Thacker, Spink and Co., 1888, p. 11.
Fiji is a nation which at the time was beset with ethnic strife and tension. In addition to the religious tension there were Indian immigrants who tended to be economically more successful than the indigenous Fijians. There was an English tradition from the days of being a British Colony and the traditional tribal leaders and chiefs were being disenfranchised by modern democratic structures. The military was not under the control of the civilian government and coups pitted some ethnic groups against others.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.
