BY VINUTA GOPAL One year ago, the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal launched Project Chirag in collaboration with and for the benefit of youngsters orphaned by the deadly gas leak of 1984. These youngsters, who had come together to fight for justice for Bhopal, under the banner Bhopal ki Aawaaz, were struggling to make [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed criminal proceedings brought by Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police Swaraj Puri against French author Dominique Lapierre and his publisher Shekhar Malhotra. The defamation charges relate to Lapierre’s book “It was Five Past Midnight in Bhopal”, about the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. A Supreme Court bench of [...]
Review by Barbara Davenport, San Diego Union-Tribune, September 18, 2005 Get in. Sit down. Shut up. Hang on. You’re aboard with Diane Wilson, East Texas shrimper and self-described unreasonable woman as she takes on the Texas chemico-political complex in her fight to save Lavaca Bay, the stretch of Gulf Coast where her family has lived [...]
BHOPAL, September 19, 2005 3:09:47 PM IST Hiroshima Ki Kahani (The Story of Hiroshima), an Urdu play written by anime cartoonist Nakazawa Keiji was performed in Bhopal by a student delegation from Tokyo University. The intensity of the play was heart-rendering and succeeded in reminding the audience of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of December 3, [...]
WE FOR BHOPAL We for Bhopal is a student group based in Delhi University dedicated to the task of spreading awareness about the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and related issues of environmental degradation and corporate crime. On 2-3rd December 2005, Bhopal celebrated the 20th anniversary of what has been described as the world’s worst industrial disaster. [...]
The minister involved in the following shameful story, is Uma Shankar Gupta. Readers of this column have met him before. He is the politician who presided over the botched “clean-up” of the factory where barefoot women and children with brooms were sent into warehouses full of DDT and Lindane. His men it was who raised [...]
WHO ARE THE 75.000 BODY BAGS FOR? By Lynn Landes 16 September, 2005 Source: Opednews.com Questions mount over Hurricane Katrina’s death count. Estimates are now well below 10,000 with the death toll currently standing at 648 for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. So, why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags? Along that line, other [...]
The following message reached us via friends in the US This is a lady’s story about what the people are really going through down there. I heard from my aunt last night that my cousin Denise made it out of New Orleans; she’s at her brother’s in Baton Rouge. from what she told me: her [...]
15 September, 2005 For the first time in nearly a decade, the infamous Union Carbide Corporation has responded to a notice served by courier under the order of the Jabalpur High Court, Madhya Pradesh, in a case about liability and modalities of remediation of Union Carbide’s contamination in Bhopal. In an earlier hearing, the High [...]
BHOPAL COLLECTOR, WASTE DISPOSAL TASK FORCE OFFICIALS STUNG BY ENRAGED INSECTS Senior officials of the “clean-up” Task Force constituted by Madhya Pradesh High Court, were set upon by honey bees at the Union Carbide plant site on Friday. Bhopal Collector Sanjay Shukla and two others were injured badly enough to require hosppital treatment. All were [...]
