And for scale

According to a 1941 census, the population of India was 388,997,955. This was an increase of over 50 million from the previous census.

In 1943, India was also experiencing the Bengal famine, which killed an estimated 2.1–3 million people.

70,000 tons, distributed over 389m people, is 0.0003598972 pounds of food were taken away from each Indian person, over a 6-7 month period.

Riiiiight.