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Story of compassion

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A touching story of compassion from the Bengal Famine, excerpted from Scent of a Story

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A friend of the world One of my greatest regrets while reporting in the war years was the studied indifference of our entire journalistic community to the famine in Bengal. Between 1942 and 1943, over three million people died of starvation in Bengal with hardly any mention in the media.