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Indra Sinha, The Guardian, April 9th, 2008 Victims of the Bhopal disaster are still campaigning for justice. Their suffering is emblematic of the struggle faced by huge numbers of Indians Wahid Khan, 72, blinded by the gas which spread over Bhopal from a pesticide plant owned by an Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation on…

Ryan Bodanyi, Students for Bhopal, Friday 22nd, 2008 I wanted to update you all on my trip to Washington DC. The first thing we did, on Friday the 22nd, was protest at the Indian Embassy. The reasons are obvious – they don’t like it. It’s embarrassing. It makes them look bad. It draws employees to…

UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA, Frontline magazine, Volume 24 – Issue 19 :: Sep. 22-Oct. 05, 2007 A human story Indra Sinha’s new novel, which is on the Booker shortlist, pays tribute to Bhopal gas leak survivors, who are still seeking justice. SOME time before dawn on December 3, 1984, a cloud of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked…

Indra Sinha, Tehelka, 22 September, 2007 In an exclusive essay for TEHELKA, this year’s Booker nominee writes about the impossibility of capturing the anguish of Bhopal, the city that inspired Animal’s People. INDRA SINHA Over the last fourteen years I’ve written a lot about Bhopal. I’ve penned newsletters and press releases, fundraising appeals in UK…

Salil Tripathi, Tehelka, 22 September, 2007 SALIL TRIPATHI on Indra Sinha who gave up ad copywriting for storytelling and is probably entitled to think that he did the right thing The works of Indra Sinha, the latest addition to the pantheon of writers of Indian origin to be short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, have…

Anil Thakraney on Sunday, 22 September 2007 Bhopal’s Angel (The full-on Indra Sinha interview. The Mumbai Mirror carries the abridged version. Enjoy!) I have known Indra for many years, and feel proud to be called his friend. Not just because he’s an immensely gifted writer, but also because Indra cares. For us. Even as we…

The Guardian, September 15, 2007 Behind the clouds Kamila Shamsie is moved by Indra Sinha’s clever reworking of the Bhopal disaster, Animal’s People How do you write a novel about a world in which unspeakable horror is not the climax, but the air which each character must breathe on every page? The answer, provided by…

Indra Sinha, New Statesman, 13 September 2007 Surprise party – Indra Sinha on his unexpected journey to the Booker Prize shortlist We were having dinner with some friends who’d just driven up from Spain, ten of us round the table, when the phone rang. It was another friend demanding that we switch on the BBC.…

Zee News, Sep 6 2007 London, Sept 06: Indian novelist Indra Sinha is among six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious award for fiction.

The parent company of Union Carbide could be granted a triumphal return to India thanks to ruling class indifference Siddhartha Deb, Wednesday September 5, 2007, The Guardian A couple of years ago I visited Bhopal, the central Indian city where a toxic gas leak on the night of December 2 1984 killed at least 3,000…

Altahrir blog, September 04, 2007 Background In the past, while holding several relevant positions within the Israeli market, I was approached by the Dow Chemical Company and asked to help them market one of their special products. The request was unusual because it was aimed for RAFAEL, the weapons developing authority of the State of…

SPEAKING VOLUMES, Nilanjana S Roy, Business Standard Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People currently sits on the Man Booker longlist New Delhi August 14, 2007: I used to be human once. So I’m told. I don’t remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like…

Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, March 19, 207 Words are only a channel through which emotions can be communicated. However, they can never do justice to reality, because there is no way to describe the feeling after 28 days of Tinshedding. The closest word in the English language to describe it is ‘utter and complete bliss.’