I read George Orwell’s Animal Farm sometime back. I really loved the way Orwell makes use of substitution and allegory to tell a very pertinent and politically motivated tale. His analysis of human psychology is truly mind-boggling. Greed is not just presented as an emotion, it is a reality throughout the book. The way the pigs make use of the other animals to live a regal life themselves can find many a equivalents in the real world. And the way the laws are bent and broken is so real that you almost find yourself finding instances in newspapers when you read them next time. The message tends to live beyond the last page: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”.

A very thin book which should be on the read-list of every person.