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Who cares about Kipling?

No one, it seems. The Dean's Bungalow at the Sir JJ School of Art campus, a Grade-II heritage structure once home to renowned author and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, is in a state of disrepair. Apathetic officials profess ignorance about why the restoration work sanctioned for the building has not commenced, aggravating the precarious condition of the city's heritage.

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The over 150 year-old Dean’s Bungalow at the Sir JJ School of Art campus may have been declared a Grade II heritage structure. But the house that was once home to renowned author and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, is not being treated as one.

Though there were plans in 2008 to restore the ground-plus-two structure and convert it into a museum, the bungalow seems rather far away from that fate.

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