Dec 1, 2006

Race between justice and death


Death then : Man carries his wife past Union Carbide factory, Bhopal in 1984


Death now : Troubled Sunil Kumar, survivor of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster of Bhopal, which took the lives of two of his brothers, three of his sisters, and both his parents, hung himself in his apartment in Bhopal on the evening of July 26, 2006.

Twenty two years of watching the race between justice and death through the gas effected blurred eyes

Photo courtesy: Raghu Rai and INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 04, 2006

    arre yaar on one end you say that htere is more to bhopal than the gas tragedy then this? kyun bhai... though all the earlier bolgs are quite interesting!! Gr8 job ...bhopl-e

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  2. BhopaleDecember 08, 2006

    But this is also a fact of life for bhopali

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