In 2004-05 the then Indian High Commissioner to UK, L.M. The government subsequently acquired the land around it under the Bihar Ancient Monument (Protection) Act, 1976. Peeved at the flagrant neglect of the place, he asked the state government officials to chalk out a comprehensive plan to take over the place as a protected monument and renovate it as a big tourist attraction. The Blairs returned to England barely a year after his birth but the house where his parents lived survived till Orwell's centenary in 2003 when it was rediscovered by his admirers.īut it was not until the then chief minister Nitish Kumar took a personal interest in the project five years ago that the state government took any concrete step to build the Orwell memorial. The Blairs lived in a tiny house on a sprawling campus where four huge warehouses of the government were also located. Blair was working for the British government as an opium agent in the rank of sub-deputy collector at Motihari. Bihar Art and Culture Minister Vinay Bihari launches the beautification work at Orwells house.Įric Arthur Blair, who wrote under his pen name of George Orwell, was born while his father R.W.
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