George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945 ... joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer. In 1928, he moved to Paris ...

Reflecting on his time as a sub-divisional police officer in Moulmein, Burma, Orwell said ... began his metamorphosis into George Orwell — a writer determined to confront power in all its guises. Even ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...

The phone hacking scandal reached its zenith in 2011. After the British police reopened an investigation to the claims and through pressure from investigations in other press outlets, News of the ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still used – and abused – as if he were ...

London's Metropolitan Police chief, Mark Rowley ... a speech at an event held by the pro-Israel Board of Deputies of British Jews, where he said that "the powers to condition protests are quite ...

But there is one crisis which has been largely ignored, and urgently needs attention: the one unfolding in Burma, or Myanmar. Ever since the military coup on February 1, 2021, which overthrew the ...

And chatter among the aristocracy, recorded by George Orwell in his own diary in June ... leader Sir Oswald Mosley – scandalised British society with their adulation for Hitler, and the diaries ...

The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's Central Library in 1974. Katie Holdstock, from the city's libraries service, said the book would not be ...

Mumbai-based restaurant chain Burma Burma has raised INR 25.46 Cr (around $3 Mn) in a fresh funding round led by Negen Capital, along with participation from NV Alpha Fund Management and a host of ...