In August 1948, William Phillips invited Orwell to review The Story of My Experiments with Truth for Partisan Review. The 1948 American edition, published by Public Affairs Press, was the first edition of the full text to be published outside India. The book describes Gandhi's childhood, his time spent in London and South Africa, and life in India until the 1920s, with a focus on the author's moral and religious development. Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth was first published in serial form in Navajivan from 1925, then translated into English and published as a book in 1927. At the BBC, Orwell worked with Balraj Sahni, who had previously lived with Mahatma Gandhi at his ashram in Sevagram. Later he worked for the BBC's Indian Section, writing and producing reviews and commentaries on news for broadcast in India and Southeast Asia from 1941 to 1943. As a young man he worked for the Indian Imperial Police in the province of Burma, then part of British India, from 1922 until 1927. George Orwell was born in Motihari, Bihar, in 1903, and lived there for a year. One of a number of essays written by Orwell and published between Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), 'Reflections on Gandhi' was the last of Orwell's essays to be published in his lifetime and was not republished until after his death. The essay, which appeared in the American magazine Partisan Review, discusses the autobiography and offers both praise and criticism to Gandhi, focusing in particular on the effectiveness of Gandhian nonviolence and the tension between Gandhi's spiritual worldview and his political activities. ' Reflections on Gandhi' is an essay by George Orwell, first published in 1949, which responds to Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

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