The home in the little town in India where George Orwell was born in 1903 is to be restored. “More than a century after Orwell’s birth, his first home – a crumbling, one-storey building near the abandoned indigo warehouse where his father worked – is home to a local English teacher. Now plans are afoot to build a museum and a stadium and put up a statue of the writer in the 10-acre area in Telliapatti.”