Re: [nukkad] Burma

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Net Geek wrote:
 
> > I think George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm)
 
> Is it the novel in which a group of pigs strike against their master and kick him out of the farm?

Animal Farm:
Not just pigs but all different animals and birds make an association
and bring revolution in the farm. They kick out the human-lords from
there, and start ruling it by consensus.

Then it goes sour. Some animals (especially, Pigs) get ambitious and
plot to eliminate the freedom fighters one by one. Then change
constitution and bill of rights. So that by the end, it were Pigs ruling
the farm and rest were aain slaves.

The original fundamental right was:
"All Animals are equal."

That was changed by pigs to give the celebrated gem:
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than the others."

Pigs even call humans back to farm to trade the products. At the end,
realization dawns upon animals that pigs are doing something nasty. They
break into the place where pigs and humans were negotiating.

Closing lines are: 
"The animals looked at the faces of the Pigs, then to the faces of the
men, then back at the faces of the pigs, NOT KNOWING WHICH WAS WHICH".

It was a revolution gone sour. Said to be about Russia, but don't we
listen Indians saying that those Gore (englishmen) rulers were better
than current indian rulers.

> On a different note, do we really need a violence wracked and debt ridden Burma? Isn't Bihar and the Nort East enough?

Not the point.

I meant that people are not even looking at other places where same
things can be said. Pakistan is just the favourite punching bag, though
it has earned that.

> > Was Srilanka ever part of India?

> Perhaps Dr. TV can throw some light into this.

Waiting for more info on that. But ofcourse I did not intend to dig till
Ravana's time.

-Rawat



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