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%.
The worst disaster on this list completely attributed to a drought, or lack of rainfall, the Chinese Drought 1941 prevented millions from growing and consuming crops in China that year. As a result, an estimated three million perished.amine and drought differ from other devastating natural disasters like the worst earthquakes and the most destructive tornadoes in the length of time of the suffering. Tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis last a matter of minutes, while famine and drought can last years at a time.