“The one entity that has no culpability in the matter is Dow Chemicals that agreed to take over UC in 2001, under the impression that the matter was closed.” So ends the commentary of Laveesh Bhandari, published in the Indian Express this week, the most disingenuous piece of sophistry yet to emerge from the Prime [...]
Calcutta Telegraph, 28 October, 2007 American giants run into IIT backlash New Delhi: Select US corporate giants — long viewed as symbols of America’s military-industry complex — have run into an unlikely hurdle in their plans to recruit and research at the Indian Institutes of Technology. The red flag has passed on from the Left’s [...]
Business Standard, New Delhi October 24, 2007 See more on the IIT actions against Dow Dow Chemicals, the new owners of Union Carbide plant in Bhopal are facing opposition from a new quarters over issues related to Bhopal gas disaster. Alumni of various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are now putting pressure on the institutes [...]
See related story of student resistance to Dow recruitment on IIT campuses here *Press Statement* 24 October, 2007 . New Delhi — More than 1000 alumni and former faculty members of various Indian Institutes of Technology have signed a petition addressed to the directors of all IITs urging them to bar Union Carbide’s owner, The [...]
Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, are mounting a strong campaign against Dow’s shameless recruitment programme. A petition, addressed to Professor MS Ananth, Director of Chennai’s IIT, can be signed online here. So far, 89 students have signed a copy handed to the Director’s office. The full version can be viewed here. [...]
Hindustan Times Editorial, October 22, 2007 If there can be a bigger tragedy than the one that took place on December 3, 1984, in Bhopal, it must be the failure of successive governments to get justice for the victims of the infamous Union Carbide gas leak. On that fateful early morning, a Union Carbide Corporation [...]
The game is afoot: the PMO’s office appears to have made a significant move in its attempts to satisfy the wishes of the Dow Chemical company. As anticipated, the Law Ministry has prepared a note asserting that “the government can opt to settle out of court with Dow Chemicals as the latter does not own [...]
The eponymous narrator of Animal’s People, a survivor of the chemical ‘apokalis’ that has blighted his city, and a self-disgusted opportunist akin in shamelessness to Diderot’s immense rogue Rameau’s Nephew, delivers us “a story sung by an ulcer”, a singular, haranguing monologue that refuses to indulge, grabbing the gentle reader by the throat and shaking [...]
