The text is a translation of excerpts from a work by the Czech scholar and writer Milada Ganguli, where she relates her experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943, during which she worked as a volunteer. Née Milada Sýkorová, the author left Czechoslovakia for India in 1939, accompanied by her Bengali husband, and passed away in Calcutta in 2000.
Obrázky z Bengálska (Pictures from Bengal) The text is a translation of excerpts from a work by the Czech scholar and writer Milada Ganguli, where she relates her experiences of the Bengal famine of 1943, during which she worked as a volunteer. Née Milada Sýkorová, the author left Czechoslovakia for India in 1939, accompanied by her Bengali husband, and passed away in Calcutta in 2000.