Kavita Puri goes to India to meet some of the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine. She looks for... more

80 years ago at least 3 million Indians, who were British subjects, died in the Bengal famine. But today different... more

The Bengal Famine, particularly the experiences of people in the rural areas who suffered the most, is not well remembered... more

Kavita discovers a set of cassette tapes containing rare interviews with Indian civil servants who were on the ground across... more

Colonial authorities wanted to censor the famine. They were worried that Britain’s wartime enemies - the Germans and the Japanese... more

A boy decides how much rice he can give from a cigarette tin to hungry people. A Christian missionary sets... more

During the Second World War, at least three million Indian people, who were British subjects, died in the Bengal Famine.... more

The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died,... more