Picture 4.1 Starvation victims arriving at a relief centre, 1945.

Picture 4.2 During the Bengal Famine of 1943, a family leaves its village in China gong district in Bengal.

Questions:

(a) What do you see in Picture 4.1?

(b) Which age group is seen in the first picture?

(c) Can you say that the family shown in the Picture 4.2 is a poor family? Why?

(d) Can you imagine the source of livelihood of the people, (shown in two pictures) before the occurrence of famine ? (In the context of a village)

(e) Find out what type of help is given to the victims of natural calamity at a relief camp.

(f) Have you ever helped such victims (in the form of money, food, clothes, medicines etc.)?