Booker prize-winning author Tom Keneally delivers the 2014 Gandhi Oration at UNSW.

In giving the Oration, Keneally challenges Australia’s policy on asylum seekers and also shines a light on a little-known period of Indian history – the Bengal Famine of 1942.

Keneally delivered the Oration to a capacity audience at UNSW’s Leighton Hall to mark India’s Martyr’s Day, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in 1948. The public talk was preceded by a remembrance ceremony at the Gandhi bust on the UNSW Library Lawn.