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Living Dead – 34 years of #BhopalGasTragedy- Elusive Justice

It was on the night of December 2, 1984, when Bhopal died a million deaths. The chemical, methyl isocyanate (MIC), that spilled out from Union Carbide India Ltd’s (UCIL’s) pesticide factory turned the city into a vast gas chamber. People… Continue Reading →

Waiting for justice – #BhopalGasTragedy

A K Ghosh   India had a regulatory system of governance already in place to avoid a disaster as big as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy In post-Independence era, the greatest environmental disaster in terms of loss of human lives occurred in… Continue Reading →

‘Nobody Bothers About Us’: Survivors Of #BhopalGasTragedy Speak Of Extreme Apathy 33 Years After The Catastrophe

Women survivors suffer, even the meagre pension for widows stopped. Shams Ur Rehman AlaviContributing Editor, HuffPost India HINDUSTAN TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES Bhopal gas tragedy survivors and others paying tribute to the victims of the world`s biggest Industrial disaster on… Continue Reading →

Lest We Forget: The Shocking Pictures Of #BhopalGasTragedy #Bhopal33

On the 33rd anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster, two organisations (Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan and Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti) working here among the victims of the Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984 have shared… Continue Reading →

33 Years of #BhopalGasTragedy : Modi Has Made India Further Unsafe By Changing Nuclear Laws

Kumar Sundaram Through undermining the liability act and opening up nuclear sector to private players with no experience, Modi government has pushed the country closer to nuclear Bhopals. It has been 33 years since the horrendous man-made tragedy in Bhopal…. Continue Reading →

“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial #Bhopalgastragedy

Madhusree Mukerjee ▪ Fall 2014 Dissent Magazine Ecuadorian victim of wastewater contamination (Caroline Bennett / Rainforest Action Network) “They want me to be bankrupt, they want my wife to leave me, they want me to jump off a building,” says Steven Donziger,… Continue Reading →

#BhopalGasDisaster- 3 injustices added to injury

The Statesman 13 Dec 2014   Abdul Jabbar It seems the tribulations of Bhopal’s victims will never cease. The gas disaster was only the beginning. The settlement, with the meagreness of compensation, arrived at without hearing any victim, is among the… Continue Reading →

#Bhopalgasdisaster – Legislation of a complicit state

The Statesman 12 Dec 2014 Usha Ramanathan There was no law Parliament had made that anticipated the Bhopal gas disaster. Since the disaster, there have been laws enacted that derive their provenance from the disaster; and there is a strangeness,… Continue Reading →

#Bhopalgasdisaster – Scripting a tragedy of errors

 The Statesman 11 Dec 2014   Armin Rosencranz Union Carbide, both the former American company, and its 49 per cent stake-owned Indian subsidiary, bear prime responsibility for the worst industrial accident in history. They hired entry-level people and failed to train… Continue Reading →

#Bhopalgasdisaster – Toxicity of our souls

The Statesman 07 Dec 2014 usha ramanathan The contours of risk, and harm, were altered dramatically on the night of 2/3 December 1984, when MIC escaped from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal killing thousands and causing injury to hundreds… Continue Reading →

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