The book is set in the background of the famine of 1866 that killed a third of Orissa's population and left many others destitute. The famine was so severe that women sold their children, men ate each other and bodies had to be dragged stark naked from the towns to lie by the roadside. There was an acute scarcity of food and most
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SK Das retired from the Indian Administrative Service as Secretary to the Government of India. He has written extensively on a number of subjects. His latest book, Touching Lives, won the Luigi Napolitano Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics, and it has been translated into many regional languages.
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