Bhopal before 24x7 news channels

Our priority was survival ; making it somewhere away from the gas, which had by then spread to much of Bhopal . We spent the night with Narasimhan in Arera Colony...whose house was on higher ground and unaffected. On our way up to Narasimhan’s place we found several gas victims who collapsed on the street after inhaling the toxic gas methyl isocyanate...More...

Bhopal 1984 and the Anderson saga

Mr Anderson and two other company executives were picked up by police from the tarmac as their plane landed at Bhopal, driven off through a side gate ( presumably, to evade a bunch of waiting news reporters) ; taken to the Union Carbide guest house, where they stayed for a couple of hours before being put on the state government plane to be flown back to New Delhi...More...

Bhopal gas: A lethal trade secret

Doctors in Bhopal on that December night in 1984, clueless and left to their own devices, administered drugs for cyanide poisoning, as victims who inhaled the gas poured in at Hamidia Hospital only to die by the hundreds. I recall, reporting in The Times of India, ‘ all nine cremation grounds in town were kept busy round the clock’...More...