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Chittaprosad is one of the most important Indian artists of the twentieth century. He is best known for his documentation of the 1943 Bengal famine—one of the worst man-made disasters in history that killed millions in India during the Second World War, while India was still under British colonial rule. Caricatures and the satirical mode were regularly employed by Chittaprosad. In this image, he depicts the easy manner in which Indian leaders colluded with imperialist powers to crush their own economy during the Second World War when famine had already reduced the land to impoverishment. He takes recourse to animal imagery to communicate the essence of each human participant and their impact on reality.