1 Lakshmi has 3 daughters and all of them stay in the U.S. When her eldest daughter was pregnant, she sponsored her visa. 2  Lakshmi got a 10-year multiple entry visa. 3  Lakshmi stayed in the U.S. for exactly 6 months and then went back to India.
However, if a mid-estimate of 30 million deaths is accepted, the Great Leap Forward was the deadliest famine in the history of China and in the history of the world. This was in part due to Chinaâs large population; in the Great Irish Famine, approximately 1 million of a population of 8 million people died, or 12.5%.
At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years; the worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55 million. Mr DikÃ¶tter is the only author to have delved into the Chinese archives since they were reopened four years ago.