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Withdraw False Charges

Vol. 50, Issue No. 35, 29 Aug, 2015
Amar Kanwar, Anand Patwardhan, Arundhati Roy, Cinema of Resistance and others, Madhusree Mukerjee, Sanjay Kak, Shohini Ghosh, Uma Chakravarty

We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the foisting of a false case on Debaranjan, member of the Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sanghatana (GASS) in Odisha.

Bengal Famine of 1943

Vol. 49, Issue No. 11, 15 Mar, 2014
Madhusree Mukerjee

Comparing the secret transcripts of the hearings of the Famine Commission that went into the reasons for Bengal's 1943 famine with its published report reveals serious omissions and obfuscations. These call into question scholars' reliance on the commission's published figures of the availability of rice in the famine year.

Winston Churchill's Plan for Post-war India

Vol. 45, Issue No. 32, 07 Aug, 2010
Madhusree Mukerjee

Leopold S Amery, Secretary of State for India from May 1940 to June 1945, has compared the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill with Adolf Hitler in his manuscript The Regeneration of India: Memorandum by the Prime Minister. This article dwells on the circumstances of this remark by Amery. It fi nds that Churchill's idea of redesigning Indian society by terminating the babu class and moneylenders and his policy towards Bengal famine and the War Cabinet meetings provoked Amery to make such an explosive comment.

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