COMMENT | George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” turned 80 on Aug 17. Published in some 150 languages, millions have read and re-read this novella, reminding us of Oscar Wilde's saying: “If a book isn’t worth reading again, it isn’t worth reading at all”.

And at each re-reading, one will discover more truths about the nature of dictatorships and of man’s injustice to man, all cleverly satirised in “Animal Farm” using farm animals and simple language that stays in the head long after the book is put down, yet again.