Indian Independence movement

Educator Chandra Mukhopadhyay, who has spent decades documenting rare folk songs sung by women, narrates how rural women of Bengal used music to challenge the British Raj during the Swadeshi movement.

From pot-bellied malnourished kids to sad faces of mothers hiding their babies in their skeletal embrace, his pen captured the true tragedy of the Bengal famine. #history #ForgottenHeroes