The story of our independence: 'Tryst With Destiny' speech

The story of our independence- Part 4

A Man-Made Famine

There are natural disasters, which kill millions of people. And then there are those which are man-made, which could have been entirely avoided. This was one of them. It was a tragedy of monstrous proportions. And it killed more than three million people, but that is a conservative estimate. Some say, five million died. In 1943, during the Second World War, Bengal was hit with a terrible famine – a shortage of food so severe that it killed people.

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