Churchill was a criminal who was raised by the evolutionary forces to counter other criminals, all of the barbaric sort of scant civilisation beyond technological attainments and proficiency of the intellect that is devoid of the heart that accounts for a modicum of humanity.
Who can ever forget the Bengal Famine caused by him that accounted for the loss of 4.3 million lives of innocent Bengalis who he termed rabbits breeding indiscriminately and, therefore, fit to die? He shipped food grains from Bengal to Europe to create buffer stocks for British forces in Greece and Yugoslavia by way of provision for a possible invasion in the future by the Germans. He prevented wheat-laden ships from Australia from docking at the Calcutta port lest they should deliver the grains to famine-stricken Bengal under arrangements with the British authorities of the province. Churchill's scorched-earth policy in Bengal in his bid to thwart the impending Japanese invasion of India through the province artificially created conditions of famine as well. Repeated cables to London by the British authorities in Bengal, apprising the Prime Minister of the desperate situation there, failed to quicken his concern for millions of starving Bengalis. He said that at any rate the emaciated Bengalis were used to remaining half-fed and that it was more worthwhile to feed sturdy Greeks instead with the stocks of rice sent to Europe from Bengal. That this person is hailed as the saviour of the western world against the barbarism of Nazism does not detract from the fact that to Indians he was a genocidal barbarian, a racist and an imperialist whose sole concern was the preservation of the British Empire at any cost, be it even the lives of millions of colonised peoples to help flourish the prospects of a handful of his own race.
An imperialist through and through, Churchill will remain much adored and much hated throughout history, a personality possessed of stark contradictions in light and shade, yet, a genius of a statesman who steered the western world to freedom from Nazi supremacy.
Written by Sugata Bose
Source of information : Shashi Tharoor
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