Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rikki-tikki-tavi Saturday, June 10, 2006 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a short story in The Jungle Book ( 1894 ) by Rudyard Kipling . It deals with an English family in India who discover a mongoose half drowned from a storm and