At the least three million folks had been killed within the 1943 Bengal famine, throughout World Battle Two. It is one of many largest losses of civilian life on the Allied aspect and there’s no memorial to them wherever on the planet.
Within the video above, the BBC’s Kavita Puri travels to rural Bengal to talk to 3 aged Indians who lived by way of this darkish chapter of Britain’s colonial previous.
For them, the famine is not historical past.
Listen: Three Million, Kavita Puri’s podcast on the Bengal famine
