Bhopal: The Tragedy Lingers On

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Why does the Bhopal tragedy continues to live on? It is an unsettling question both for those who have inherited the generational legacy of one of the world's worst industrial environmental disasters and also for those who have inherited blunted sensitivity that has been nurtured by over two decades of denial of the true nature and continuing impact of the "Gas Kand" in the night of December 2nd and 3rd of 1984. Twenty-three-years is a long time and more so for a nation, which under its neoliberal avtar has gotten used to tiding over what happens to those not part of this economic dream run. Bhopal gas victims were in news over the past two weeks as they marched to the National Capital to be heard on long-term demands of establishment of an empowered commission on Bhopal for long-term medical care and rehabilitation of the victims and....