Throughout her history India faced famine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India> time and again. Perhaps Bengal, the undivided greater Bengal of British and pre-British era, suffered the most. There was great-Bengal-famine in 1770 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1770> wiping out 1/3 rd of population and there was famine of 1943 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943> on which Satyajit Ray directed the film ASHANI-SANKET <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashani_Sanket>. We have literatures, paintings on Bengal Famine. One story goes with a mother who wanted to survive by eating three or four entire gram-seeds she found in the fecal matter of her dead son, suffering from starvation and acute enteritis.
When there is no irrigation system, when people are left with no strength to plough their land, when there isn't any single seed left for sowing what people can do! Long before KALE MEGHA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagaan> our poet penned ALLAH MYAGH DE, ALLAH PAANI DE. I am here because, Araceae, perhaps the most adaptive family, helped my ancestors survive those days. Thank you Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
