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MNA Feature Desk: British novelist, essayist, journalist and critic George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, Bengal Presidency (present day Bihar), in British India, to a British colonial civil servant. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage. He talked about the social and political issues that plagued the world, having seen much unrest and poverty in life. When we think of George Orwell, who died on this date in 1950 at ...

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