Two of my favourite authors mentioned in the first paragraph: Mark Twain and Kipling. They were telling their stories. And it is only theirs to tell. I am saddened to hear that kids in India don’t know Kipling anymore. (I was raised in India) I sometimes like to claim at least a part of Kipling as one of our own. He was Indian too, as far as I am concerned. He didn’t just write..he created phrases that we use to this day..I do all the time! Kipling and Twain nee Samuel Clemens met when he was traveling in America. This was right after Tom Sawyer. He was said to have given Kipling some literary advice... paraphrasing..to get all the facts right so they can be distorted later. I was also surprised to learn that Kipling wrote speculative fiction(I haven’t read those) using the literary device of narrative exposition that was picked up by Robert Heinlein. Then I wasn’t surprised because Heinlein is one of my favourites too. But back to Twain..he was a satirist and maybe an eccentric..but does it matter? Everyone has their own story to tell and they speak for themselves. I enjoy Samuel Clemens’ Mark Twain. There are professional reviewers and then there are creative writers. The article was written by and about the former. Samuel Clemens was a genius.