About five years later, the poem is at the centre of another kind of reckoning, one that raises questions about artistic ...

New Delhi, Mar 24 (PTI) Did Cyril Radcliffe regret the line that he drew to divide India and Pakistan in 1947 and did he ever read W H Auden’s scathing poem about his role in the Partition?

This attitude was clearly expressed in Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The White Man's Burden." Kipling spent his childhood in India and shared the British perception of the Englishman's place in the world.