CENTRE FOR FRENCH & FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE STUDIES
INVITATION TO FILM SCREENING
BENGAL SHADOWS ( 48 minutes)
Production : Petitte-Terre/2017 ( France)
A film by Joy Banerjee and Partho Bhatttacharya
Filmmakers will be available for discussion after the screening
9th January 2018, 11am, Committee Room (212), SLL&CS 1,JNU
“Bengal Shadows” brings to light a lesser-known episode of the Second World War: the 1943 famine, during which between 3 and 5 million people starved to death in West Bengal, India and current days Bangladesh.
Today, numerous historians, researchers and writers, from both India and Britain, blame the British Empire for the famine that occurred whilst the subcontinent was under its rule.
ALL ARE INVITED