For the first year of his life , George Orwell lived on a farm in India , very much like the space he eventually described in his famous parable Animal Farm . Now the place is being sprain into a museum to reward the author — but not in a style that Orwell would have liked .
On the BBC , Suhail Haleem writes about the small farmwhose tenants are being evict to make way for the Orwell museum :
This was poppy country back then , and Orwell ’s father work for the opium department of the British government activity , overseeing the production and computer memory of the drug before it was exported to China .
More than a century after the Orwells left , the dilapidated colonial - era bungalow is being turned into a museum . The four families who have been living in it are in the process of being unceremoniously turf out – a move it ’s hard to imagine Orwell approving of .
Among them are Aditya Abhishek , a government employee , his female parent and a younger brother . He was born here 29 days ago , “ narrowly miss 1984 ” , he says with a smile .
“ That ’s something I divvy up with George Orwell , ” he tells me . “ We were both born in the same household , but he became far-famed , I did n’t . ”
you may read more about the farm where Orwell began his lifeon the BBC .
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