After graduating from Eton College in England, he worked in Burma. George Orwell (1903-1950) was born as Eric Blair in British India. He wrote the “past belongs to those who control the present” and described Mandalay as a rather disagreeable town-“it is dusty and intolerable hot and it said to have five main products that begin with P, namely pagodas, pariahs, pigs, priests, and prostitutes.” George Orwell served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for five years from 1922 to 1927, an experience that was the inspiration for his 1934 novel “Burmese Days.” He worked as a colonial police officer in northern Burma in the 1920s.
