Tommy by Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling even though he likes to call himself an English writer or is considered so as for colonial allegiance and loyalty but is not as for Bombay being the place of birth and his India connection which he cannot do away with. He may think himself to be one of the British empire but is not exactly an Englishman of that type. He is a journo and his English is journo English. A journalist breaks and creates and recreates. His English is not even Anglo-Indian English, but is Hindustani English, pidgin-Indian English, Cockney verse. T https://www.boloji.com/articles/55403/tommy-by-rudyard-kipling