The famous British writer born in a small town in Bihar

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In this small town in Bihar, there stands a crumbling house. Faded paint rusted logs and a forgotten signboard, but once in 1903 a British baby was born here. His father worked in the British opium department and because of this the child left here for barely a year and then left India never to return. Yet today Bihar takes immense pride in calling him one of their own because the child would go on to write two of the most powerful books of the 20th century. The baby's name was George Orwell, the man who warned about surveillance, propaganda and decaying systems, even coining the term Big Brother. And today the irony runs deep. His house has been turned into a museum but its condition horrible neglected empty and forgotten. And you know it's almost poetic how Orwell once wrote about a decaying system and today his birthplace has become a victim of one.

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