Mowgli
Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling’s short story “In the Rukh” (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent and arguably the most memorable character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.
In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean “frog”, describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it “does not mean ‘frog’ in any language that I know of.
Kipling stated that the first syllable of “Mowgli” should rhyme with “cow” that is, as opposed to the expected English word “mow”
