India, Jan. 4 -- British author, historian Diana Preston says she doesn't believe Churchill orchestrated Bengal famine, but was 'undoubtedly slow to respond to its seriousness'

New Delhi :Journalist Madhusree Mukherjee in her book, Churchill's Secret War, reveals that then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's decisions between 1940 and 1944 "directly and inevitably led to the deaths of some three million Indians". She argues how "instead of sending emergency food shipments Churchill used the wheat and ships at his disposal to build stockpiles for feeding post-War Britain and Europe. British author and historian Diana Preston, too, believes that Churchill was "an anachronistic imperialist and certainly no friend to India". She, how...