Indian writer Salman Rushdie wrote, "The prose writing- both fiction and non-fiction- created in this period by Indian writers working in English, is providing to be a stronger and more important body of work than most of what has been produced in the 16 'official languages' of India, the so-called 'vernacular languages', during the same time; and, indeed, this new and still burgeoning. 'Indo-Anglian' literature represents perhaps the most valuable contribution India has yet made to the world of book." Orwell quipped, "On the average, too, Indians write and even pronounce English far better than any European race." While Orwell opposed imperialism and Hitchens backs Orwell position but the spread of English in India shows the actual benefit of British imperialism. English is becoming an unifying language for all of India, a land that as Rushdie noted has 14 official languages. As Orwell showed in 1984, language matters and English has become the language that united India and India also adopted the British parliament system. Finally, the British gave India a national identity, which did not exist before colonialism. While there was a cultural India before the British arrival, India as a nation did not exist until after the British left India.

The intellegencia of the left had a love-hate relations with Orwell. Mary McCarthy admired Orwell but feared his anti-communism would have led Orwell to support the Vietnam War. Other noted leftist Norm Chomsky and Norman Mailer viewed Orwell as one of their own. Hitchens feel that Orwell would not have supported the Vietnam War or become a neo-conservative just as Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz would. Hitchens felt that Orwell would have been a capricious leftist. Orwell in one essay, concluded that "a socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective."

It is hard to say how Orwell would have matured and changed as the cold war progressed. There is no doubt that he was anti-communism and while he supported socialism, he understood that the bureaucracy that accompanies socialism threatened the whole enterprise. Podhoretz changed over to conservatism during the 70's when it became obvious the political left were no longer interested in defending America nor in opposing the totalitarian Soviet Empire. Some on the left merely became fellow traveler. Maybe Orwell would have become a Scoop Jackson liberal- a hawk on foreign affairs and government interventionist at home. Certainly, during Orwell time, there were many leftist or former communist going right such as James Burnham, who help influence Orwell's 1984 with his book, "The Managerial Revolution."

Orwell understood the power of collectivism and hoped that socialism could be made to work but instinctly understood that maybe it just couldn't. He favored the underdog and believed that socialism was the economic theory to help the underdog. Maybe as he grew older, he would dispense with this notion that socialism wasthe great savior of the lower class and the middle class and fear its collective nature.