Tag: oral history

• Feb 23, 2024

  Tracking down the last survivors of the Bengal famine (BBC News)

  I’m deeply moved by this story about survivors of the Bengal famine and the profound work that Sailen Sarkar has been doing over the last few years travelling around the Bengali countryside gathering their first-hand accounts. “Sailen has now gathered more than 60 eyewitness accounts. In most cases, the people he says he talked to…