Bhopal : A Toxic Legacy

An afternoon in Jai Prakash Nagar. People living around the UCIL plant suffer from chronic ailments and abnormalities. Residents claim children can’t run 100 metres without falling short of breath. No one knows whether these are the fallouts of the gas leak or the continued exposure to toxins. A long-term epidemiological research by Indian Council of Medical Research was terminated in 1994 and the Madhya Pradesh study is poor and disputed

Photographs by: Surya Sen