Barack Obama’s administration is busy kicking six kinds of shit out of BP, a foreign company whose subsidiary committed an environmental crime against US citizens, but Obama and his advisors see no contradiction or irony in trying to get Dow Chemical off the hook of its inherited Bhopal liability for contaminating the water thus causing [...]
Mr. Naba Dutta along with three companions; Ms. Progna Paromita Dutta Roy Chowdhury, Mr. Gautam Ghosh and Mr. Dipankar Mazumdar all associated with Nagarik Mancha, a civil society organization mainly focused on environmental and labor issues, went to a pre-announced and well-publicised dharna front of the Block Development Officer’s office at Narayangarh block of West [...]
Five Human Rights Defenders ( including three women ) of Dalit Foundation ( India) arrested and remanded to judicial custody on false charges on India’s 64th Independence Day ( 15th August 2010 ) in Tirunelveli District of Tamilnadu. Henri Tiphagne, Executive Director of People’s Watch has also been identified as an ‘absconding accused’ by the [...]
A rollercoaster of a week played out in the heat and humidity of Delhi this past week at the dharna, a protest demanding compensation, medical care, legal action, and site remediation. This past week, Bhopal activists at the dharna have struggled with discrimination and abuse from the police. On the other hand, a positive meeting [...]
According to the Hindu, in a piece published a few hours ago, the 60th edition of the Mahindra great Escape, one of India’s most loved off-roading adventures, concluded successfully in Goa with over 80 vehicles from the Mahindra stable manoeuvring the challenging route. The Hindu’s readers must have been reassured to learn that Mahindra customers [...]
The endgame has begun. The present moment, coming after the extraordinarily shoddy Group of Ministers (GoM) report on Bhopal and the Madhya Pradesh government’s manoeuvres to hammer a lid on the issue of contamination of the pesticides plant and its surroundings, is probably the last opportunity to prevent an artificial closure of all the complex [...]
Pesticide industry body loses defamation case against CSE, twice. The Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), a pesticide industry body, has twice lost the defamation case it filed against Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. CCFI had been pursuing the case against a study done by CSE highlighting the endosulfan poisoning of residents of [...]
“What the Government did not achieve in 26 years was sought to be achieved by a Group of Ministers in four sessions spread over four days. Naturally, their recommendations like before fall far short of addressing the real issues facing the survivors. Seasoned by experience, the Bhopalis know that this promise too like other promises [...]
Shareholders of Mahindra & Mahindra, the Indian industrial conglomerate, have re-elected Keshub Mahindra, “a revered business elder”, as the company’s chairman in spite of his conviction over his role in the Bhopal gas disaster. In July, 86-year-old Mr Mahindra, formerly the non-executive chairman of Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary, was the most senior executive to be [...]
BY JOHN ELLIOTT. I was there in Bhopal on December 7,1984, when Warren Anderson, then the chairman of Union Carbide, was whisked away from the stricken city to Delhi and back to the US – and we all knew that it was happening with the help of Rajiv Gandhi, then India’s prime minister. Since then [...]
