View: Why India is facing a shortage of oxygen of truth-telling

During the 1943 Bengal famine, when the death toll ran over two million, the British government tried hard to suppress data from coming out. There was pressure on newspapers to calm public fears, and wartime censorship laws were pressed to stop newspapers from even using the word 'famine'. But the editor of The Statesman - an Englishman - decided to run graphic photos of emaciated babies dying on the streets regardless. Photographer Sunil