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Artwork mentioning Churchill's role in Bengal famine that killed 3 mn removed from UK gallery
short by Shalini ojha / on Tuesday, 23 June, 2026
A video installation by Helen Cammock, a Turner Prize-winning artist, has been removed from the National Gallery in London amid criticism for mentioning Winston Churchill's role in the 1943 Bengal famine that killed about 3 million people. The artwork mentioned "wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill". Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames objected to the artwork.
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