In the 1920s, George Orwell spent five years in Burma working as a policeman for the British colonial government--an experience he found profoundly distasteful, and that fueled his loathing for totalitarianism in any form, even the relative...
George Orwell's "Big Brother" is alive and well in Burma; to many Burmese, Orwell is known as "The Prophet". In this work, Emma Larkin journeys into the Orwellian land created by Burma's ruling generals, and presents a side to the country t...