 The idea that the Bengal famine is man-made is a cliché to some extent. It is not the intention of the British government to create a famine for self-interested reasons because Bengal is a war base against Japan and the last thing they want is a famine in their war base. It makes absolutely no sense. So we have to factor in that this was a big miscalculation. That's point number one. Nobody wants a famine in a war base.