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The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions and lack of ...
Dainik Statesman. OCLC number. 1772961. Website. www .thestatesman .com. The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1818 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar. It incorporates and is directly descended from The Friend of India. It is owned by The Statesman Ltd and ...
Calcutta's two leading English-language newspapers were The Statesman (at that time a British-owned newspaper) and Amrita Bazar Patrika. In the early months of the famine, the government applied pressure on newspapers to "calm public fears about the food supply" [4] and follow the official stance that there was no rice shortage.
Statesman (dialogue), a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Packard Bell Statesman, an economy line of notebook computers introduced in 1993. Statesmen (conspiracy theory), a conspiracy theory in Lithuania. The Statesman, an 1836 essay by Henry Taylor. Statesman, a man who lives on a landed estate, in the dialect of the British Lake District.
Ian Stephens. Ian Melville Stephens CIE (1903 – 28 March 1984) [1] was a British journalist who was the editor of the Indian newspaper The Statesman (then British-owned) in Kolkata, West Bengal, from 1942 to 1951. [2] He became known for his independent reporting during British rule in India, and in particular for his decision to publish ...
t. e. Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using violence to intimidate non-muslims and their leadership for a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, it was a day of nationwide communal riots. [ 5]
The Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata and the wider Kolkata Metropolitan Region in West Bengal, India. Opening in 1984, it was the first operational rapid transit system in India, besides being the second busiest and fourth-longest metro network in India. As of March 2024, it has four operational lines: the 32. ...
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray. Sunanda K. Datta-Ray (born 13 December 1937) is an Indian journalist. He has been editor of The Statesman (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the International Herald Tribune and Time. [1] He was editor-in-Residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu. [2] [3] [4] He was editorial consultant [5] to Singapore ...