Category: Community Blog
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 4
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 26-04-2011, DAY 4 Today, to me it seemed that Mr. Salve essentially repeated the arguments he had made on the last hearing. He started from where he had left the Court…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 3
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 20-04-2011, DAY 3 The Court room was completely packed. Today there were many more law students present. In neat black and white uniforms their eagerness to merge as one among the…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 2
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 19-04-2011, DAY 2 Having reached the Supreme Court in time and securing a place in the public gallery I finally got some time to take in the general ambience of the…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 5
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 27-04-2011, DAY 5 Today was a busy day inside the court. The discussion in last few days revolved around the scope of a curative, its ground and whether by admitting a…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 4
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 26-04-2011, DAY 4 Today, to me it seemed that Mr. Salve essentially repeated the arguments he had made on the last hearing. He started from where he had left the Court…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 3
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 20-04-2011, DAY 3 The Court room was completely packed. Today there were many more law students present. In neat black and white uniforms their eagerness to merge as one among the…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 2
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 19-04-2011, DAY 2 Having reached the Supreme Court in time and securing a place in the public gallery I finally got some time to take in the general ambience of the…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 1
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 13-04-2011, DAY 1 The morning started in the characterstic Bhopali style with unpredictable chaos. While Sathyu had to rush back home to get his identity proof, a mandatory requirement to enter…
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Dec 3, 1984: A Night of Death in Bhopal
Death and Chaos in the City Death came hurtling of a clear sky on December 3rd, 1984. A cold midnight wind blew, with stars brilliant as they are in central India, glistening through the thin pall of cooking-fire smoke that typically hung above the city. Here and there, braziers were burning to warm those who…
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Burning with injustice, burning for justice
PICTURES FROM THE 26TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION IN BHOPAL. PHOTOGRAPHER PRAKASH HATVALNE SEE MORE 26TH ANNIVERSARY PICTURES HERE
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Bhopal: the 26th anniversary in pictures
Beloved, our people drink up the filthy water Heroines and heroes take deep breaths of killing air Our guts and lungs are filled with bitter chemistry, Poison, pain and cancers we lock inside our bodies, Accumulating toxic wealth, letting no one share it. Law, progress, justice, these are the names of our diseases. PREM NIZAR…
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Dharna 2010
Indefinite Protest Reignites in Delhi Currently, about 150 activists are braving the monsoon season in Delhi to demand compensation, medical care, legal action, and site remediation. Hundreds more are expected to join the dharna, representing 7 survivor organizations. All information about the Dharna, including important document, latest news and updates can be found here on…
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Day 19
Dharna Blog August 14, Day 19 Today at the dharna site, our vigil continued, damp as the afternoon air. I spoke to Abdul Rafi, fondly known to everyone as Mamu, about his story. He has been with the struggle for the full 26 years, and was 13 when the gas disaster hit in 1984. He…