30 Years of Toxic Injustice for Bhopal Survivors

30 Years of Toxic Injustice for Bhopal Survivors

The night of the industrial disaster is forever seared into the memory of the people of Bhopal, India. Heavy clouds of methyl isocyanate — a deadly toxin — and other gases engulfed crowded shantytowns, the railway station, and surrounding settlements after a runaway...
Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever

Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever

I recently returned to my childhood home in India with my siblings for a final walk down memory lane with my elderly mother. As expected, it was a powerfully emotional experience. But in ways unexpected, it brought home to me how our planetary fever — climate change —...