BBC, ARE YOU LISTENING ?
BBC reports Venezuelan hunger. What about a film by BBC on Bengal hunger in 1943 when Churchill stage-managed the show to starve Bengal to one of the greatest human catastrophes of the twentieth century? Approximately 4.3 million Bengalis died of hunger, a calamity that was inflicted on us to create buffer stocks for British soldiers in Europe and to feed the population in England.
My mother was witness to this calamitous event of human history and has in tears given graphic description of what she saw. There was this woman who begged of her, ''Phyan dao, Ma, phyan dao,'' (''Give me starch, mother, give me starch,'') and before my mother could even respond, she fell at her feet and died. The event has left such an impact on my mother that now, ailing and paralysed in bed with speech impaired and a host of ailments limiting her, she beats her forehead when reminded of the Great Bengal Famine of 1943. The woman who died at her feet did not even ask for rice or food of any kind but simply the starch that people would drain off the rice bowl once it had been made. This was the situation and BBC has forever remained mute.
Hail Britannia ! You have civilised the world, indeed, with your beneficial colonial control of the savages across the world ! Hail the Kings and the Queens of England who have revelled in their royal pastimes at the expense of the miserable wretches across the world they have through their kicks and sleight of the commercial hand saved from perdition ! And hail us, Indians, Macaulay's children, who never raise a hue and cry over this but quietly enjoy the coronation ceremonies of one of the worst dynasties in human history whose path of glory is besmirched by its gory deeds, the blood spilled from the arteries of their sub-human subjects who were just fit to be ruled and brought out of savagery thus !
Vande Mataram ! Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
BBC reports Venezuelan hunger. What about a film by BBC on Bengal hunger in 1943 when Churchill stage-managed the show to starve Bengal to one of the greatest human catastrophes of the twentieth century? Approximately 4.3 million Bengalis died of hunger, a calamity that was inflicted on us to create buffer stocks for British soldiers in Europe and to feed the population in England.
My mother was witness to this calamitous event of human history and has in tears given graphic description of what she saw. There was this woman who begged of her, ''Phyan dao, Ma, phyan dao,'' (''Give me starch, mother, give me starch,'') and before my mother could even respond, she fell at her feet and died. The event has left such an impact on my mother that now, ailing and paralysed in bed with speech impaired and a host of ailments limiting her, she beats her forehead when reminded of the Great Bengal Famine of 1943. The woman who died at her feet did not even ask for rice or food of any kind but simply the starch that people would drain off the rice bowl once it had been made. This was the situation and BBC has forever remained mute.
Hail Britannia ! You have civilised the world, indeed, with your beneficial colonial control of the savages across the world ! Hail the Kings and the Queens of England who have revelled in their royal pastimes at the expense of the miserable wretches across the world they have through their kicks and sleight of the commercial hand saved from perdition ! And hail us, Indians, Macaulay's children, who never raise a hue and cry over this but quietly enjoy the coronation ceremonies of one of the worst dynasties in human history whose path of glory is besmirched by its gory deeds, the blood spilled from the arteries of their sub-human subjects who were just fit to be ruled and brought out of savagery thus !
Vande Mataram ! Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
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