Om George Orwell

In 1937, George Orwell was shot in the neck by a sniper during the Spanish Civil War. The bullet missed his artery by millimeters. He fell to the ground choking, certain he was about to die, not for fame or country, but for truth.

That moment changed him forever. He had gone to Spain to fight fascism, but what he found was betrayal, censorship, and propaganda on both sides. He watched men lie in the name of justice, and he saw newspapers twist facts until the truth disappeared.

When he recovered, he carried the scar for the rest of his life, a thin reminder of how fragile both the human body and honesty could be.

That wound bled into every word he ever wrote.

In Animal Farm, he exposed how revolutions rot into tyranny.

In 1984, he gave the world its greatest warning: that truth itself could be destroyed, rewritten, and replaced by the voices of power.

But Orwell’s brilliance wasn’t born in theory or politics. It was born in poverty and pain. He scrubbed floors in Paris kitchens. He lived among coal miners in northern England to understand the working class. He wandered through the alleys of London, invisible, hungry, watching how society treated the forgotten.

He believed that writing was not a career; it was a moral act. “In a time of deceit,” he said, “telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”.

When he wrote 1984, he was dying of tuberculosis, coughing blood as he typed through sleepless nights on a cold island in Scotland. Friends begged him to rest, but he wouldn’t. He said he had one more truth to tell before his voice gave out.

And when it finally did, he left behind more than novels. He left a mirror, one that still reflects our world too clearly. George Orwell didn’t just write about oppression.

He lived through it.

He survived it.

And with the scar on his neck and fire in his words, he made sure we could never say we weren’t warned.

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