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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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