'We survived a brutal famine in British India'
At least three million people were killed in the 1943 Bengal famine, during World War Two. It's one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side and there is no memorial to them anywhere in the world.
In the video above, the BBC's Kavita Puri travels to rural Bengal to speak to three elderly Indians who lived through this dark chapter of Britain’s colonial past.
For them, the famine isn't history.
Listen: Three Million, Kavita Puri's podcast on the Bengal famine