The parallels between Orwell's work and my ancestral home in Calcutta have been many for me summer holidays
traveled to Calcutta all my life - my family is from this part of India - but when I was 14 I took a copy of 1984 with me and I found myself entering in a conspiracy of synchronicity.
This corner of the domination of the Communist Party in the largest democracy in the world - a city with a love of all things Soviet and pride in his syrupy bureaucracy - it seemed so close to the track and Oceania relentless machinery of control that I experienced my own imagination.
political life is an important feature of Calcutta: images and slogans smelling buses and billboards and the sides of houses. Today, big brother when the image, I imagine that a Bollywood-style Mafia Don, mustaches and bright orange dress and burned in thick rings of gold in the form of hammers and sickles. The city center of the machine of government is a beautiful structure and imposing building called the Writers', which could easily be a close relative of the Peace Secretariat or truth or love. And as both directions of the title hide cowardly acts committed in private, "writing" that is trying to - just face the implacable bureaucracy can - to undermine its citizens live in their attempt to obtain a form action or tax.
As Winston Smith begins his journey of self-discovery and ordered a fierce battle of wills with the harmful agents of Big Brother, personified by the sinister O'Brien, I realized some things about me she . While my cousins ??wandered around the city with smog, choking with warm colors of the brightest sport of India and the fabric that hid my sweat ice and Pepe Jeans Nike shoes washing, hatred as Winston and Julia, I hate uniforms for workers. It was this summer, I realized I was hot, uncomfortable and looked like a fool. Even when I hugged her cotton pajamas and white batik-print shirts Punjabi, everyone knew that something was wrong. Although the Bengali speaking my accent was artificial. My haircut, my gestures - they knew I was Indian, not yet. The Thought Police came in a mixture of avatars on trains and trams and tea and bread stalls. Y
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