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Famine Sketches, 1943 Famine Sketches,1943- Zainul Abedin The sketches depict the profound tragedy and misery of the man-made famine that ravaged the undivided Bengal (now Independent Bangladesh and West Bengal of India) in 1943 and claimed three million lives of Bengali people of British India! Zainul Abedin, the legendary Bangladeshi Artist ‘used Chinese ink and paper made from rags to capture these desperate depictions of the human impact of famine.’ Some of the originals of these sketches could be found in the British Museum. Interested readers who want to learn more about these sketches can visit the related website of the Museum. Zainul Abedin was in his twenties when he made these drawings. Drawing #1 is an Iconic image of human suffering. It shows a family struck by the great Bengal Famine of 1943 which was man-made! This drawing was published on the cover of the ,” Darkening Days” by Ela Sen in 1943 which was banned by the then British Rulers of occupied undivided India! The book ‘chronicled the slow death by starvation of millions of Bengali peasants during the WWII years.’ The famine is also known as “Churchill’s Secret War”. Churchill had worsened the starvation in Bengal by ordering diversion of a ship load of wheat sent from Australia for the starving Bengalis elsewhere for feeding the British troops posted around the world! Dr. Gideon Poyla, an Australian biochemist, called the Great Bengal Famine of 1943 a man-made “holocaust’. Source: British Museum website, Internet, Zainul Abedin Museum, Mymenshing etc.           |
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The Bengal Famine 1943: an engineered worst genocide in human history!
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THAT'S EMPIRE FOR YOU, THE DOMINATION OF FAR-OFF PLACES BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT ARE ONLY THERE TO EXPLOIT THE PEOPLE AND NATURAL RESOURCES. HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY THOUGHT THAT WAS WRONG IN THOSE DAYS?
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THAT'S EMPIRE FOR YOU, THE DOMINATION OF FAR-OFF PLACES BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT ARE ONLY THERE TO EXPLOIT THE PEOPLE AND NATURAL RESOURCES. HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY THOUGHT THAT WAS WRONG IN THOSE DAYS? I can tell you here that the man-made famine contributed immensely rather hastened departure of the colonial rulers from Indian subcontinent for good!
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Deborahsu, I agree with you that there are many unbelievable people in the world who do not bother about other people's plights! They simply bother about their own interests. Stay well and cheerful always.
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