M. M. Kaye’s Kipling: Favourite Verses – The Moon of Other Days is a curated selection of Rudyard Kipling’s poetry, chosen and introduced by Kaye to highlight the emotional, nostalgic, and often deeply personal side of his verse. Rather than focusing on Kipling’s imperial or martial poems, Kaye gathers pieces that reveal his lyricism, his longing for India, his sensitivity to memory and loss, and his gift for capturing fleeting moods. The title poem, The Moon of Other Days, becomes a thematic anchor: the idea that the same moon shines on past and present, on places left behind, and on lives forever changed.

Kaye’s commentary frames Kipling not as a political symbol but as a craftsman of feeling—someone whose verses could be tender, wistful, humorous, or quietly philosophical. The book works both as an introduction to Kipling’s poetry and as a personal homage from a writer who understood the Anglo‑Indian world he inhabited.