Over the years, George Orwell’s dystopian totalitarian nightmare has been adapted countless times on radio, the stage and screen. Amid the ongoing culture wars, the term Orwellian couldn’t be more relevant across the political divide, with the likes of Trump’s alternative facts on the Right versus the precedence of personal feelings over objective truth on … Read more
By Dasha Litvinova | Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia — A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages, sentencing her to seven years in prison in one of the highest-profile cases involving the recent crackdown on free speech. Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. … Read more
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”- ‘1984‘ by George OrwellMeaning of the sentence:The sentence “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen” from George Orwell’s ‘1984’ serves as the opening line of the novel and immediately sets the tone for the … Read more