Orwell`s Champaran

"George Orwell, author of books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, was born in Motihari in 1903. His father Richard Walmesley Blair was a deputy posted in the opium department in Bihar. However, when he was one year old, George left for England with his mother and sister.



Until recently, the town of Motihari was largely unaware of its connection to Orwell. In 2003, Motihari discovered its role in Orwell's life when a number of journalists arrived in the city for what would have been Orwell's hundredth birthday. Local officials are making plans for the construction of a museum on Orwell's life."
(source: http://wapedia.mobi/en/Motihari?t=3.#3.)