Kathmandu, Oct. 25 -- George Orwell wrote 1984 to warn us about tyranny perpetuated by fear, and Animal Farm to tell an allegorical tale of the decay of communism. As history steps into the new decade of the 2020s, it looks frighteningly like 1984 has already arrived in the post-truth world.
Animal Farm may have been a parody of Stalin's Soviet Union but it has many parallels today, perhaps nowhere more so than post-revolutionary Nepal, where just about every character from Orwell's farm has a corresponding political figure. Just fill in the blanks: Farmer Jones (......), Napoleon the pig (.....), Boxer the horse (.....) Moses the raven (.....) The 9 Dogs (.....) and Benjamin the donkey (....). History is recurring farce.
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