The name of a loyal Indian watercarrier in Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘Gunga Din’, included in his Barrack-Room Ballads (1892). He is killed while tending a British soldier, who then becomes the supposed narrator of the poem. Few people...

Gunga Din (1892) is one of Rudyard Kipling's most famous poems, perhaps best known for its often-quoted last line, "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"[1] The poem is a rhyming narrative from the point of view of a British soldier, about a native...

IN the steep hills around Schweinfurt, Germany, the morning air was cold and damp, and the mud was deep as leaders of 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, carried their heavy rucksacks and weapons - trekking more than 15 miles in six hours over the...

In the steep hills around Schweinfurt, Germany, the morning air was cold and damp, and the mud was deep as leaders of 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, carried their heavy rucksacks and weapons--trekking more than 15 mikes in six hours over the rugged...

Sahara should, by all the rules, be one of those randy, rowdy adventure yarns in the tradition of old Saturday-afternoon matinee serials and every desert epic from Gunga Din to Indiana Jones. Alas, the mumbling, mush-mouthed Matthew McConaughey is no Cary Grant, or even Harrison...

The death of Gunga Din in Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name serves as a classic example of how actions speak louder than words. The narrator, a warrior saved by Din after being wounded in battle, at first degrades and insults Din for being inferior in the narrator's mind. The narrator changes his opinion for the better after Din performs the brave, unselfish deed on the narrator's behalf, losing his own life in the process but displaying his true human value.