1st year good.... 2nd year better

"Four legs good....two legs bad"

"Four legs good.... two legs better"

This is one of my favourite lines from Orwell''s Animal Farm. I don't know how or why it keeps recurring in my head now. I also have got very interested in dystopian books off late, not that I've read any of them. Just been wikiing them. So, decided to give it a start last week and so bought Orwell's 1984. I had read a detailed review about it and hence got interested.The craving increased after i did a movie review for one of my courses here in IIMB. I chose a movie called "Orwell rolls in his grave" and depicts the state the US media is at present and where it is heading to. Lot of analogies have been drawn to 1984. Also, am able to relate to the concept in my present context, The utopia that is "created" here in IIMB is highly dystopian where people often live with constant fear of failing to survive. I can here the drunk G block seniors pressing their loud HINDI music on my ears. It's 3:50 a.m. and yet I lie awake in bed. I wish I could do something about the music but that would be going against the system here.

So, as I close my laptop and start my book, I murmur to myself.

"1st year good.... 2nd year better"