Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee

Author:Madhusree Mukerjee [Mukerjee, Madhusree]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780465022601
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

Gourhori Majhi of Kalikakundu was eight at the time of the cyclone and living in another village. The family’s hut had fallen, but they had forded the floodwaters to reach a higher house. The starvation started right away, for there was no rice to be had. “Everyone was crazed with hunger,” he said in 2005. Whatever you found, you’d tear it off and eat it right there. My family had ten people; my own stomach was wailing. Who is your brother, who is your sister—no one thought of such things then. Everyone is wondering, how will I live?” For months the boy fed on boiled patalawta (leaves and vines), kochudata (yam stems), and seeds of durbo ghas (lawn grass). “There was not a blade of grass in the field,” he said, because everyone was searching them out for their tiny grains. While Gourhori’s body grew skeletal his stomach had ballooned, a marker of approaching death.

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