Bengal Femine and Rangeya Raghav,,
Eighty years on there is still silence which resulted in three million deaths. Yes I am talking about Bengal Femine.This was an anthropogenic catastrophe of Bengal . But after eighty years these lines still resonates "Bapu,bol, bol bol Yeh hai Desh ki pukar Sone ki is Bang Bhumi me Machta Hahakar ,,. There is no memorial any where in the world to commemorate the victims and this anthropogenic catastrophe.But there are literary archives in the form of reportage and novel which depicts the pathos of Bengal Femine . In 1946 a novel Vishad Math was written by Rangeya Raghav . This novel depicts the sufferings from famine .This is as good as time as any to remember the playwrite ,poet and writer of 20th century because 2023 was centenary year of his birth . This is Tirumalai Nambakam Vir Raghav Acharya a Tamilr Brahmin who was born on 17th January 1923 in Agra Uttar Pradesh India.. Better known by his pen name Rangeya Raghav .He did post ...