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  • Day 6

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    Dharna Blog Day 6: 31.07.2010 Delhi’s incessant heat that persists even during the night resulted in an asthma attack for Irfan Bhai. So in the morning a round of calls began for volunteers to take him to AIIMS, India‘s one of the best hospital. However, failing to find a volunteer at such a short notice…

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    Dharna Blog Day 7: 1.08.2010 Today’s dharna sthal can best be described as soaked. It poured in the morning, and then it was hot and sticky all afternoon. It’s been a week of humid shuttling between Jantar Mantar and Columbus School. Despite heavy rains and terrible condition at Jantar Mantar, which seems to have soaked…

  • Day 5

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    Dharna Blog Day 5: 30-07-2010 Most of us spent the last night waiting for the wind to blow from somewhere. When that didn’t happen most of us spent the night counting stars and braving mosquitoes. Due to some miscommunication the caretaker at the St’ Columbus school had switched off electricity and so we had to…

  • Day 3

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    Dharna Blog Day 3: 28-07-2010 Chotu, whom you would remember from our six month long stay at Jantar Mantar two years ago, greeted us with hot tea at the dharna sthal where we start our protest early morning every day and pack up in the late evening. So instead of marching 800km for a month…

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    Dharna Blog Day 4: 29-07-2010 Today was relatively a light day though Delhi heat and humidity were present in equal measure. We started the day as usual with a fresh round of slogans. Some 100 Bhopalis joined us today. Amongst these were Mamu and Naeem who had also participated very actively in the last padyatra…

  • Dharna Blog – July 26

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    Dharna Blog Day 1 – July 26 Coming to Delhi to knock at the doors to the conscience of the Central Government — the Prime Minister, in particular — is something that Bhopalis have done four times in  the last five years. Each time supporters from India and abroad have responded with remarkable warmth. Each…

  • Dharna Blog – July 27

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    Dharna Blog Day 2 – 27 July, 2010(by Garima and Nity) The rains came and went with irritating irregularity. We had moved from our first day’s stakeout to the other side of the road. Not only was the original site more slush prone, located as it was right next to a public toilet, but also…

  • Anatomy of a terrible betrayal: the Bhopal tragedy

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    In a recent verdict, senior managers of Union Carbide were let off with a surprisingly light sentence for their role in the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal. Amid public outrage, the Indian government hastily set up a ministerial panel, but their recommendations are a betrayal of the victims and survivors of the gas leak for…

  • The story of Joshua Herb

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    When she learned that she was pregnant Vicki Herb was overjoyed. She was determined to give her child the best start and did everything she could to ensure that he would be born safe and healthy. ‘She even gave up chocolate cake, which she loved,’ said her husband Glen, ‘and went to yoga classes with…

  • The Week: To Be a Woman

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    To be a Woman This Week, Special Report, By Deepak Tiwari Nisha, 37, Zareena, 50, Harshi, 26 and Sakeena, 40… all have the same story to tell—menstrual irregularities, delayed menarche, early menopause, cervical cancer and anaemia.Majority of the 2,50,000 people initially poisoned in 1984 were female. A medical study done two months after the gas…

  • Himal Magazine features Bhopal

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    Animal in Bhopal By: Indra Sinha Ever since that book of mine, Animal’s People, came out, I have become quite a traveller. Used to be that hardly did I set my four feet outside the bastis of Khaufpur. Only once in my life had I left the city, which was when I quit the vicious…

  • Finance Minister confronted in Madurai

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    Rupesh Kumar reports from Madurai…   Day 1, 28th June 2008.   A group of 6 went visiting the Finance minister at  his M. P. office in Karaikudi. Earlier, we were supposed to have a demonstration outside his office in the headquarters of his Lok Sabha constituency in Sivagangai. But we learnt that he works out of…

  • An Eater's Guide to Fasting

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    Pragya Bhagat writes from Austin, Texas… June 28, 2008 The first few hours aren’t hard. I just imagine that I skipped breakfast…and lunch. It’s after half the day has passed that the first gnawing pangs of hunger scrimmage through my stomach, searching for a morsel of food. I wash the desire away with a glassful…

  • No Life Or Liberty

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    NITYANAND JAYARAMAN, Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 24, June 21, 2008 A clause that could save lives doesn’t seem to apply to Bhopalis SACHIN JATAV would like to play cricket like his namesake. But forget running between the wickets, this 13-year-old can barely walk properly. When he is not staggering on his feet, he just…

  • Why I'm going on hunger strike for Bhopal

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    Indra Sinha, guardian.co.uk, June 12 2008 Victims of the Union Carbide gas leak continue to suffer, their injuries and deaths uncompensated. We must support them On July 26 2006, my friend Sathyu Sarangi called me in tears from Bhopal to tell me that our mutual friend, Sunil Kumar, had taken his life. Sathyu said that…