Bhopal

Why Bhopal gas tragedy cannot be forgotten

rediff News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

Photographer Samar Jodha's latest installation gives you a 3D experience of the Bhopal gas tragedy

Drink B’eau-Pal: Yes Men ‘help’ Dow Chemical profit from Bhopal disaster

green LA girl (Free subscription) | yesterday

Less than a month after making fun of a real bottled water company, Dasani, by rebranding it as Deception, The Yes Men are now creating their own bottled water, B’eauPal. As you may have guessed, B’eauPal’s the faux French name for the chemical tainted water in Bhopal, India, where 25 years ago, a huge industrial accident [...]

An Indian Muslim’s Blog: Horrors of Bhopal Gas Tragedy 1984: Biggest industrial disaster in the world–[Part 1]

Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Bhopal gas tragedy that had caused 3,000 deaths instantly and nearly 25,000 deaths over the next couple years apart from incurable diseases, physical and mental disorders to over half-a-million people, is nearly a forgotten affair today. It's India's shame not just because the main culprit, Warren Anderson, could never be arrested or extradited. It's also our [...]...

NY Times: A cloud still hangs over Bhopal

Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

... American tradition: you always clean up the mess you made. This is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, an epic mess that started one night when a pesticide plant owned by the American chemical giant Union Carbide leaked a cloud of poisonous gas. Before the sun rose, almost 4,000 human beings capable of love and anguish sank to their knees and did not get up. Half a million more...

Bhopal: 25 Years of Poison

Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Wake up people of Bhopal, you are on the edge of a volcano!" In September 1982, Bhopali journalist Raj Keswani wrote a terrifying story, the first of a series of articles, for the city's Jansatta daily. Bhopal was about to be annihilated. "It will take just an hour, at most an hour-and-a-half, for every one of us to die." Keswani's information came from worried staff...

Two youth electrocuted in Bhopal

India eNews (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

At least two teenaged boys were killed and four others injured Sunday when they came in contact with a high-tension electricity wire while returning from an Islamic congregation on the outskirts of the state capital, police said.

India: 25 Years Of Bhopal Tragedy

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Lekhni at The Imagined Universe remembers 25 years of Bhopal gas tragedy in India and discusses what lesson it teaches us.

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Bhopal Reminder for Nuclear India

Truth Out (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

As India prepares to roll out the red carpet to multinational corporations cashing in on the country's nuclear deals with the US and others, a painful reminder has come about what collaborations of this kind can mean: the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas-leak tragedy on December 3, 2009. read more

Bhopal: An Ongoing Tragedy, 25 years later

culturekitchen (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

This week was the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. And, 25 years later, the disaster continues. On Dec. 2nd and 3rd, 1984, the criminal negligence killed some 20,000 people and left over 100,000 affected. And corporate America, responsible for this disaster, has done almost nothing to clean up the mess and take responsibility in the past 25 years. From an article on BBC News this last...

Bhopal girls part of Indian delegation for Copenhagen summit

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

Two other girls have also been chosen from Patna and New Delhi; the four were winners in the national essay writing competition, Youth on Climate Change organised by WWF-India.

[mukto-mona] Vinay Lal on Bhopal

Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

[ALOCHONA] Vinay Lal on Bhopal

Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

The Untamed Monster: Corporate Greed and the Continuing Tragedy of Bhopal December 3, 2009 by Vinay Lal LAL SALAAM http://vinaylal.wordpress.com/ In the early morning hours of December 3rd, 25 years ago, a poisonous gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant and crept over the city of Bhopal and within hours had taken a few thousand lives. Since that fateful evening, close to 20,000 people...

Bhopal tragedy, anti-Sikh riots: Just say sorry, and pay up

Times of India (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Two tragedies - the Bhopal gas disaster and the anti-Sikh riots - struck India 25 years ago. But when it came to compensation for victims of the two man-made disasters, all similarities ended. While victims of the anti-Sikh riots received Rs 7 lakh, those of the Bhopal disaster a mere Rs 12,410.

Industrial accident in Bhopal: 25 years later

Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

The disaster at the U.S. Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, on December 3, 1984, claimed at least 20,000 lives.

SMS to remember 25th anniversary of Bhopal disaster

Textually (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Five years after the Bhopal disaster the gas is still poisoning maiming and killing people. On twitter the #bhopal25 hashtag is jumping, and Sunil Sinbad started a SMS campaign with the message: This SMS came into your inbox uninvited. Just like the poisonous gas in Bhopal. You can delete this SMS from your phone memory but remember 3/12/1984. [via AdLand ]

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