1. ‘What to write? What to do? How to do?’: The
1943 Bengal Famine and the Trouble with Art
Sourit Bhattacharya (Convenor), Lecturer,
University of Glasgow
2. An ‘Aesthetic of Hunger’?: Famine and
Cinemas of India during the 1940s,
Binayak Bhattacharya (Co-Convenor),
Assistant Professor, Manipal University
3. The Holocaust and the Bliss: Famine, Liberal
Imperialism, and Nationalism in Bankim
Chandra Chatterjee’s Anandamath (1882)
Rajarshi Mitra, Indian Institute of Information
Technology, Guwahati
4. Exploring Humanist and Marxist Approaches
towards Understanding the 1943 Bengal
Famine,
Arjab Roy, Indian Institute of Information
Technology, Guwahati