Balkrishna Namdev, a 71-year-old social activist and trade union organizer from central India’s Bhopal city, spoke slowly and calmly but with deep conviction, unwearied by the prolonged struggle for ...

Forty years ago this month, a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, sprung a toxic gas leak, exposing half a million people to toxic fumes. Thousands of people lost their lives in the ...

If the victims were not impoverished, disempowered Indians, the Bhopal disaster would probably be on the lips of every human being alive to this day. People who were in utero during the Bhopal ...

Supporters and survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak, Bhopal, India. EPA-EFE/Sanjeev Gupta In the early hours of December 3 1984, 27 tonnes of toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage ...