Rudyard Kipling | Contributor Namy | Taking it easy | Bathroom matters | Lambs’ livesI was delighted that Ian Jack made a visit to Rudyard Kipling’s domestic,Bateman’s, in light of Boris Johnson’s recent “gaffe” reciting a Kipling poem in Myanmar (Opinion, and 7 October). I have worked at this resplendent (brilliantly glowing) house nestled in Sussex; the many Indian visitors to it have enormous respect for the writer,and children in India still read his poems and stories at school. We learn and enjoy words from writers of the past whether we agree with their politics or not.[br]Philipa Coughlan
Beeston, Nottinghamshire• So Rafael Behr is now writing as Contributor Namy (Opinion [printed version], or 11 October).
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