"Everything was a bigger struggle for me, everything required a bigger effort, so I understood that the sole basis for…"

"I regret not having taken more advantage of time — of the solidity of time, the intention of time. That’s why I don’t…"

"I still have the passion in my heart. If I don’t sing, my heart doesn’t beat so strong..."

"The feeling is the same. You close your eyes and you are on the stage and you feel that warmth from the people."

"Corpses lay scattered over several thousand square miles of devastated land. 7,400 villages were partly or wholly des…"

"Husbands deserted wives and wives husbands; elderly dependents were left behind in the villages; babies and young chi…"

"Bengal is a vast cremation ground, a meeting place for ghosts and evil spirits, a land so overrun by dogs, jackals an…"

"Conditions in certain famine hospitals at this time ... were indescribably bad ... Visitors were horrified by the sta…"

"The robbing of graveyards for clothes, disrobing of men and women in out of way places for clothes … and minor…"

"The Moslem proselytizers would not give a morsel of food to the dying Hindu mothers or their children, would rather s…"