The Railway Men
Revisiting the Government Response to an Environmental Disaster
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The Bhopal Disaster, also known as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, is recognized as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The Bhopal Disaster is the only industrial disaster affecting half a million people in the last few decades. Because of the sheer magnitude of this disaster, this topic remains relevant, especially to learn what preventive measures could have been taken to ensure such a tragedy never occurred. The disaster occurred from a mixture of chemicals that produced a toxic gas, a lack of employee reporting when issues arose in the plant and weak safety systems. In December 1984, a poison gas blanketed the city of Bhopal. Due to the mistakes mentioned above, over two thousand people and many more livestock died overnight and were discovered the next morning. The effects of the disaster still linger in the same location to this day.
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Jain, Pankaj. (2023). “‘Children of the Soil’ to ‘Dark Wind’: Nature, Environment, and Climate in Indian Films,” in Visual Anthropology, 36:1, 69–79, DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2022.2129258
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Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (Ravi Kumar, 2014, in English)
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Bhopal Express (Mahesh Mathai, 1999, in Hindi)
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Railway Men (Shiv Rawail, 2023, in Hindi)
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The Railway Men
Revisiting the Government Response to an Environmental Disaster
In: Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and EcologySearch for other papers by Atharv Jain in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Search for other papers by Pankaj Jain in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
The Bhopal Disaster, also known as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, is recognized as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The Bhopal Disaster is the only industrial disaster affecting half a million people in the last few decades. Because of the sheer magnitude of this disaster, this topic remains relevant, especially to learn what preventive measures could have been taken to ensure such a tragedy never occurred. The disaster occurred from a mixture of chemicals that produced a toxic gas, a lack of employee reporting when issues arose in the plant and weak safety systems. In December 1984, a poison gas blanketed the city of Bhopal. Due to the mistakes mentioned above, over two thousand people and many more livestock died overnight and were discovered the next morning. The effects of the disaster still linger in the same location to this day.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 259 | 259 | 34 |
| Full Text Views | 24 | 24 | 4 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 97 | 97 | 12 |