• Item #A303
  • ISBN: 1891843303
  • ISBN13: 978-1-891843-30-3
  • Copyright 2004
  • Price: $18.95


Bhopal: The Inside Story

Updated Second Edition

By T. R. Chouhan, Claude Alvares, Indira Jaising and Nityanand Jayaraman

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About the Authors

T. R. Chouhan

was an MIC plant operator at Union Carbide's Bhopal plant. He and his family ran for their lives, as did hundreds of thousands of others, on the awful night of the gas explosion. Since the disaster, Chouhan has been a major informant for both journalists and investigators.

Claude Alvares

is a renowned environmentalist based in Goa, India. He is the editor of the Other India Press, an alternative publication based in India. The Director of the Goa Foundation, an environmental monitoring action group, Claude Alvares got his PhD from the Technische Hogeschool, Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, in 1976. He lives at Parra, Goa with his wife and three children.

He is a member of the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). He is also a member of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on Hazardous Wastes constituted by the Supreme Court of India. He wrote the famous article 'The Great Gene Robbery' in 1986.

Indira Jaising

(born 1940, Mumbai) is an Indian lawyer. She went to school in Mumbai and graduated in Bangalore, before getting her degree in law in 1962. Jaising became the second woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Bombay in 1986 (the first was Sohini Nanavati). She became the first woman to reach the post of Additional Solicitor General of India in 2009. From the beginning of her legal career, she has focused on protection of human rights, rights of women and those of the poor working class.

Nityanand Jayaraman

a.k.a Nity is a Chennai-based writer and researcher who specialises in investigating and reporting on the environmental and human rights track record of corporations. After his undergraduate degree in electronics engineering, he spent two years in the US, getting a Masters degree in journalism, hitchhiking in the US and working in the salmon fisheries in Alaska. He returned to India in 1994, and was a travelling journalist, during which time he travelled to most parts of the country specialising in investigating industrial pollution and related human rights violations. He has been associated with the campaign for justice in Bhopal since the time he visited Bhopal to do a story on water contamination in 1996. He has also worked with Greenpeace India and Corpwatch India

Nity is a part of a voluntary collective called Corporate Accountability Desk which is a coming together of close friends who extend technical, logistics, legal and strategic support to communities that are fighting corporate crime and globalisation in any form. Learning from their experiences where organisations take up democratic space rather than create it for communities, one of the principal organising principles is to let communities speak for themselves.