Bengal famine

There have been a number of significant famines in the history of Bengal (now independent Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal) including:

Bengal famine of 1770

Bengal famine of 1943

Bangladesh famine of 1974

Bengal Famine (film), a 1943 movie by Bimal Roy

Latest News for: bengal famine

The last ‘bhadralok’ musician

Live Mint 06 Jul 2018

Burman ... As his music became richer, Burman underwent inner transformations owing to the Bengal famine of 1943, independence and Partition, as did contemporaries and collaborators like Bimal Roy, Sahir Ludhianvi and O.P ... Moreover, his legacy was more ‘static’ than dynamic; it existed, it exists even today, but is more like the breeze that his beloved Bauls from Bengal sing about—omnipresent, yet intangible.” ... S.D....

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There is a ‘big idea’ in each of Malcolm Gladwell’s podcasts

The Hindu 23 Jun 2018

“RIP ... “I think we’re bad historians,” he begins ... Framing an event ... In Season 2, he takes on social justice issues, from race to poverty to colonialism, and in the spirit of the series, explores themes as divergent as rich people’s addiction to golf, school desegregation in the U.S., and the Bengal famine (which recent scholarship has recast as not a failure of production but a crime of misappropriation by the Churchill administration). ....

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Driving to devastation

The Hindu 12 Jun 2018

It was only recently that I finally understood, once I started reading about the great Irish famine of 1845. It was also called the great potato famine, because the big disaster was a failure of the potato crop ... Many of these laws were repealed before the famine ... This is how we ride up to famine ... This story is familiar to Indians who know about the Great Bengal Famine of 1943....

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Indian conception of nationalism and need for dialogue

Deccan Chronicle 12 Jun 2018

The Congress, which slammed its former leader and former President Pranab Mukherjee for accepting the invite from the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh (RSS) to address its passing out parade, took a U-turn after his speech ...   ... There may be social differences between us ... The Rigveda proclaims ... F ... The bonfire coincided with a famine in the Khulna district of Bengal and the picture of shivering naked villagers appeared revolting to him ... H ... ....

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Available, accessible, but not stable

The Hindu 04 Jun 2018

The right to food is a well established principle of international human rights law. It has evolved to include an obligation for state parties to respect, protect, and fulfil their citizens’ right to food security. Our current understanding of food security includes the four dimensions of access, availability, utilisation and stability ... Memories of the Bengal famine remained fresh and fears of a food shortage were rampant....

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Better than the royal wedding

Live Mint 25 May 2018

“The way you handle the spotlight is such an inspiration,” says Markle, dazzled by the British royal family ... Markle ... Middleton ... The British ability to laugh at themselves is an admirable trait, even though it also signals their unique ability to disguise their own crimes as good-natured tomfoolery, as if causing a famine in Bengal merits just as many tut-tuts as nicking a policeman’s helmet on the night of a boat race....

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ARTSPEAK: THE SWADESHI MOVEMENT

Dawn 20 May 2018

The attempt to partition Bengal in 1905 gave rise to the first Swadeshi movement ... The conscious decision to reclaim art in the service of nationalism grew with the Bengal Art Movement in Calcutta ... Bose’s 1930 linocut print of Gandhi on his salt march, Ravi Varma’s ‘Sarswati’ ( 1896), Amrita Sher-Gill’s ‘Three Girls’ ( 1935) and Zainul Abideen’s ‘Bengal Famine Series’ (1943) were as much political as artistic statements ... ....

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On Mrinal Sen’s 95th Birthday, Revisiting the Auteur’s Politics

Yahoo Daily News 14 May 2018

His cinema can be divided into distinct periods, etching out the contemporary sensibilities of the times they were made in. Also Read ... Mrinal Sen’s Akaler Sandhane (In Search of Famine) (1980), which shows a film crew attempting to make a film based on the Bengal famine (set in a village of the day), fuses the horrors of history with the struggles of contemporary life ... More ... Read more on Indian Cinema by The Quint.Bengal Panchayat Polls....

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Remembering A Forgotten Campaign: Vic Knibb’s story fighting with the British Army in Burma during WWII

War History Online 07 May 2018

War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Lars Erik York Gill ... By January 1942, Imperial Japan had started their own “blitzkrieg” in the Far East and the Pacific, by bombing the U.S ... Vic Knibb, aged 18 in 1943. Photo. Lars Erik Y. Gill ... ¨ ... At the time, and particularly here, the anti-British feeling had been growing, and it did not help that a famine in Bengal had led to as many as 3 million people starving to death ... His job....

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Leonid Bershidsky column: A Nobel Prize for Trump and Kim is no joke

Richmond Times Dispatch 01 May 2018

By Leonid Bershidsky ... In some cases, these actions will — and should — form their principal legacy. Take Winston Churchill ... “He was one of the great mass murderers of the 20th century, yet is the only one, unlike Hitler and Stalin, to have escaped historical odium in the West.” He cataloged scorched-earth tactics against rebels in the British colonies, a part in engineering the 1943 Bengal famine, and the firebombing of Dresden in 1945....

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Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View: Nobel prizes for Trump, Kim? Why not?

Waco Tribune-Herald 01 May 2018

In some cases, these actions will — and should — form their principal legacy. Take Winston Churchill ... “He was one of the great mass murderers of the 20th century, yet is the only one, unlike Hitler and Stalin, to have escaped historical odium in the West.” Tharoor cataloged scorched-earth tactics against rebels in the British colonies, a part in engineering the 1943 Bengal famine and the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 ... Peace is fragile....

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A Nobel Prize for Trump and Kim is no joke

Newsday 30 Apr 2018

April 30, 2018 12.10 PM ... In some cases, these actions will - and should - form their principal legacy ... “He was one of the great mass murderers of the 20th century, yet is the only one, unlike Hitler and Stalin, to have escaped historical odium in the West.” He cataloged scorched earth tactics against rebels in the British colonies, a part in engineering the 1943 Bengal famine and the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 ... ....

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Column: A Nobel Prize for Trump and Kim is no joke

Gloucester Times 30 Apr 2018

In some cases, these actions will – and should – form their principal legacy. Take Winston Churchill ... “He was one of the great mass-murderers of the 20th century, yet is the only one, unlike Hitler and Stalin, to have escaped historical odium in the West.” He cataloged scorched earth tactics against rebels in the British colonies, a part in engineering the 1943 Bengal famine and the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 ... Peace is fragile ... ....

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