Host, Producer, Sound Designer: Fabeha Syed
Guests:
Leela Bai, Bhopal Gas Disaster Survivor
Shamshad Bi, Bhopal Gas Disaster Survivor
Balkrishna Namdeo, Activist, Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogee Sangharsh Morcha.
Tim Edwards, Executive Trustee, Bhopal Medical Appeal
Syed Tabish Ali, Information Officer, Bhopal Medical Appeal
Editor: Shelly Walia
Music: Big Bang Fuzz
On the night of 2 December 1984, tonnes of poisonous gas leaked from a factory that made pesticides. It not only killed thousands of people but continues to affect a larger part of Bhopal’s population. Leela Bai, who was just a 26-year-old mother of five at the time when the disaster happened, lost her son that night. She later lost another son due to gas poisoning; her husband, after a few years, died of a similar condition. She now lives off a meager pension that hardly makes ends meet.
Unfortunately, Leela Bai’s family shares this fate with thousands of others who continue to battle with health conditions as a…
