In 1888 the young Kipling drove into Calcutta over the Hugli Bridge and wrote it up for his newspaper: the council chamber, the river banks, a night with the Calcutta police through the city’s opium dens and brothels, the sailors who die by the waterside, and the story behind an old grave in a Calcutta cemetery.
Early Kipling journalism, vivid and sardonic, with the imperial attitudes of its day plainly on show. Download the free EPUB.