Indian Standard Time. Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time (DST) or other seasonal adjustments. In military and aviation time IST is designated E* (Echo-Star).
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or man-cub Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.
Kipling obviously had an atlas by him and in the Author s Notes on the Names in The Jungle Books (Sussex Edition) he wrote: 'All the islands and places mentioned in The White Seal are on the map. You had better look them up' . This would not have been an easy task with a school atlas.