Numerous news sources, February 28, 2007 After more than 13 years she died, Hollywood sensation Audrey Hepburn got a new lease of life in a remote West Bengal village, thanks to the altruistic zeal of French writer Dominique Lapierre. At a South 24 Parganas village, 50 km south of Kolkata, the celebrated French writer Wednesday [...]
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, February 27, 2007 Each day, the Tinshed tells a different story about the people present there. Stories about widowed women, handicapped children, and the sense of loss that hangs heavy in the air around the communities that have suffered for so long. Today’s story was not as dismal. It focused on the [...]
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, February 26, 2007 It is a common practice for politicians to make promises they won’t keep. So it wasn’t a complete shock when the ministers of the Samajik Party spent ten hours talking about change and reform, but didn’t bother to mention or visit the fifty people a few feet away. The [...]
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, February 25, 2007 There’s a multitude of reasons why the Bhopal Gas Disaster can be classified as a tragedy. Thousands of people died due to negligence by a multinational corporation whose current owner refuses to recognize the criminal liabilities its subsidiary faces. Tons of chemical waste still lurk beneath the surface, polluting [...]
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aawaaz February 27, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT At a Press Conference today a group of people suffering from different chronic ailments due to Union Carbide’s poisonous chemicals shared their experience of getting sustained relief [...]
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, Feb 24, 2007 Paper-bag-making was the highlight of the afternoon. The turn-out was mild but the products were close to perfection, the women having fine-tuned their skills after making multiple bags already. The ice-cream man who travels by the sit-in site daily and parks his cart across the street was staring intently [...]
I recently came across this article written soon after the merger in which Dow Chemical swallowed up Union Carbide. It is so poignant, to read about friends now dead, the despair caused by inaction and neglect that continues, the hope that the company could be brought to book still alive, despite all that has happened. [...]
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aaawaaz February 25, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT At a press conference in Bhopal today, parents of 14 children born with congenital abnormalities attributable to exposure to Union Carbide’s poisons demanded free medical care for [...]
ZEE NEWS, FEBRUARY 25, 2007 Bhopal, Feb 25: Claiming that chromosomal aberrations among people exposed to Union Carbide’s toxic gases have caused birth defects among their children, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy today sought monthly pension and free treatment for them. Over 120 children of gas-affected parents, below the age of 12 years, [...]
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, February 23, 2007 They work for the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karamchari Sangh (Bhopal Gas Affected Women’s Stationery Workers’ Union). Clad in dark burkhas with bright pinks and magentas peaking from underneath their cloaks, they gossip and laugh amongst themselves. It is hard to see the anger in their kohl-lined eyes. [...]
