Indian legends born in january

The Champaran region in Bihar — known for being the launching ground for Mahatma Gandhi’s historic 1917 Civil Disobedience Movement — has another claim to fame: it is the birthplace of George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, who, before his death on January 21, 1950, did much to warn the world against the dangers of totalitarianism.

Before he became the literary legend who gave the world terms such as ‘Orwellian’, ‘Big Brother’, and ‘Thought Police’ — making Motihari in East Champaran a site of literary pilgrimage — Orwell was simply Eric Arthur Blair.

And, it was, arguably, his tryst with the British Raj that catalysed his transformation from Eric Blair – the son of a colonial opium agent – to Orwell, the “democratic socialist” who critiqued imperialism and took a bullet to the throat fighting right-wing fascists in the Spanish Civil War.

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