Just So Stories Just So Stories Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated
Kali the Mother (poem) In the poem, he shows how the whole universe is a stage for the goddess's terrible and frenzied dance. This poem influenced Indian freedom fighters Subhas Chandra Bose and Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo used it as a basis for his "Bhawani Mandir" manifesto. He said about the poem: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan said that the poem gives "articulation and voice to that eternal spirit of India". Kali the Mother (poem) Kali the Mother is a poem written by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda wrote the poem in 1898 when he was staying in Kashmir, on a houseboat, on Dal Lake in Srinagar.