New Delhi, May 21 -- George Orwell was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear," George Orwell.

This powerful statement was written as part of the proposed preface to Animal Farm. Although the preface was never published with the book during Orwell's lifetime, the quote later became one of the most important statements about freedom of speech and expression.

The quote ...