India is just now beginning to feel the pinch of famine. It is largely the result of last year’s drought, the nation’s worst in seventy years.

India has taken tentative steps to remedy its skills famine—the current government has made noises about doubling spending on education, and a host of new colleges and universities have sprung ...

India exported more than 70,000 tons of rice between January and July 1943 as the famine set in, she said. Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however.

Famine is no new tale in India. There were hunger plagues in 1867, 1878, 1897, 1900, costing a total of more than 8,000,000 lives. Despite nearly 200 years of British enlightenment, ...

Outside of India, the Bengal famine of 1943 might only be known through the efforts of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who directed a movie in 1973 called "Ashani Sanket" (“Distant Thunder ...

Winston Churchill and the 1943 Bengal famine. Madhushree Mukherjee’s 2011 book, Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II, notes that the famine ...

M.S. Swaminathan, the eminent crop geneticist who fused plant breeding science with keen administrative skills to produce bountiful harvests that ended famine and steadily transformed India into ...

Chittaprosad, an artist known for his sketches and prints and who documented a famine in the book Hungry Bengal, began his artistic tenure as an illustrator and sketch artist for the Communist ...

If India and Pakistan have a nuclear war, scientists say it could trigger Ice-Age temperatures, cause global famine, and kill 125 million people.

India exported more than 70,000 tons of rice between January and July 1943 as the famine set in, she said. Not everyone lays the blame at the Prime Minister’s door, however.