On Jan 19, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for the info on George Orwells' birth place in India. > Our local library has all his works in one volume, and they are well worth reading, which were together by his wife after his death. . He was educated in England in boarding school, - not very happily - had a lot of bad colds. As a young man he joined the Imperial/Indian Police and was sent out to Burma (in the days when India and Burma were administered together). as the chief Police Officer in a Burmese district. One of his tasks was to shoot a wild elephant, a task which he hated. He described this poignant episode and others in his book on Burma which is well worth reading - he disliked the anomalous position he was in, in Burma, and resigned from from the Service after one term. Then tried to make his living in England as a writer. He was poor. He lived as tramp (homeless vagrants) for a little while and wrote about them. The he investigated the life of the poor miners and lived with them and he described the conditions under which they lived ho! w their skin was always black with soot. For some time he was in Paris - poor - and made his living as a dishwasher in a famous restaurant called Maxims. He described eloquently how the human dishwashers always stood in a few inches of water in the kitchen washing the dishes by hand. His writings were published in one of the English newspapers. An English dowager who had eaten in Maxims but had never seen the kitchen protested that Maxims was never like that! Then he got TB in Paris and was in a big ward with many patients - he described both patients and doctors and said he was treated well - all these episodes are described vividly. I found all these books far more interesting than 1984 and Animal Farm for which he became world famous. He died in England of TB at a relatively young man. Moira Breen USA > > Patna, Jan > > As a special tribute to English author George Orwell, a documentary > film seeks to spread awareness about the importance of cherishing the > legacy of his birthplace. > > Mr. Orwell was born on in the lake town of Motihari in Bihar's East > Champaran district.

He was for some time a patient in a T.B. Sanatorium in the village of Cranham, Gloucestershire, UK, where I live ! Not sure if that's where he died. Carol T -------------------------------------------------- From: "Moira" <moirabreen@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 4:39 AM To: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham@gmail.com>; <india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] First documentary on George Orwell'sbirthplace - Motihari, Bihar > > On Jan 19, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > <bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you for the info on George Orwells' birth place in India. > >> Our local library has all his works in one volume, and they are well >> worth reading, which were together by his wife after his death. . He >> was educated in England in boarding school, - not very happily - had a >> lot of bad colds. As a young man he joined the Imperial/Indian Police >> and was sent out to Burma (in the days when India and Burma were >> administered together). as the chief Police Officer in a Burmese >> district. One of his tasks was to shoot a wild elephant, a task >> which he hated. He described this poignant episode and others in his >> book on Burma which is well worth reading - he disliked the anomalous >> position he was in, in Burma, and resigned from from the Service after >> one term. Then tried to make his living in England as a writer. He was >> poor. He lived as tramp (homeless vagrants) for a little while and >> wrote about them. The he investigated the life of the poor miners and >> lived with them and he described the conditions under which they lived >> ho! > w their skin was always black with soot. For some time he was in Paris - > poor - and made his living as a dishwasher in a famous restaurant called > Maxims. He described eloquently how the human dishwashers always stood in > a few inches of water in the kitchen washing the dishes by hand. His > writings were published in one of the English newspapers. An English > dowager who had eaten in Maxims but had never seen the kitchen protested > that Maxims was never like that! Then he got TB in Paris and was in a > big ward with many patients - he described both patients and doctors > and said he was treated well - all these episodes are described vividly. > I found all these books far more interesting than 1984 and Animal Farm > for which he became world famous. He died in England of TB at a > relatively young man. > Moira Breen > USA > >> >> Patna, Jan >> >> As a special tribute to English author George Orwell, a documentary >> film seeks to spread awareness about the importance of cherishing the >> legacy of his birthplace. >> >> Mr. Orwell was born on in the lake town of Motihari in Bihar's East >> Champaran district. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Quite interesting information, Moira. Thanks. Orwell's celebrated defence of P G Wodehouse as well as his brilliant introduction to the volume of Kipling's complete verse are also worth reading. ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar ----- Original Message ----- From: Moira Breen, USA English dowager who had eaten in Maxims but had never seen the kitchen protested that Maxims was never like that! Then he got TB in Paris and was in a big ward with many patients - he described both patients and doctors and said he was treated well - all these episodes are described vividly. I found all these books far more interesting than 1984 and Animal Farm for which he became world famous. He died in England of TB at a relatively young man. (snip)