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The Bhopal Tragedy Continues

Lajwanti Khemlani June 16, 2008

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#29 Posted by lajwanti101_. on June 23, 2008 10:07:23 am
Once again, thanks everyone for your comments. Regards.
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#28 Posted by nb on June 20, 2008 2:36:26 am
NKG, you still have it wrong, it has always been the Congress which has been accused of taking money.
And how is there a cumulative effect comparable to Bhopal? Those who can even compare it with other disasters, tragic as they all are, should visit Gandhi Medical College Hospital and see the effects for themselves even today.
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#27 Posted by nkg on June 19, 2008 11:31:59 pm
NB...
I am talking about cumulative effect....
I never disagreed about the scale of disaster and its continued effects on people of Bhopal...The worse, the BJP leaders taken money from Dow Chemical to hush up the matter. Congress can not shout, the accident ocurred during their tenure...
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#26 Posted by nkg on June 19, 2008 11:31:40 pm
NB...
I am talking about cumulative effect....
I never disagreed about the scale of disaster and its continued effects on people of Bhopal...The worse, the BJP leaders taken money from Dow Chemical to hush up the matter. Congress can not shout, the accident ocurred during their tenure...
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#25 Posted by nkg on June 19, 2008 11:31:39 pm
NB...
I am talking about cumulative effect....
I never disagreed about the scale of disaster and its continued effects on people of Bhopal...The worse, the BJP leaders taken money from Dow Chemical to hush up the matter. Congress can not shout, the accident ocurred during their tenure...
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#24 Posted by nkg on June 19, 2008 11:29:03 pm
NB...
I am talking about cumulative effect....
I never disagreed about the scale of disaster and its continued effects on people of Bhopal...The worse, the BJP leaders taken money from Dow Chemical to hush up the matter. Congress can not shout, the accident ocurred during their tenure...
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#23 Posted by nb on June 19, 2008 3:32:19 am
Nkg, when did Indian Railways ever cause a disaster that killed thousands of people, blinded thousands more, and affected generations to come in their tens of thousands? The magnitude of this accident is different from anything you have ever seen.
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#22 Posted by nkg on June 19, 2008 3:12:49 am
Guru...
Why UC is treating white Americans different from Indians?
My question, why to treat UC different from Indian Railways, as per as casualty is concerned?
Anyhow, let SC decide the compensation amount and the victims.
Again, I am assuring you, that I have no sympathy on MNCs, but we need to look at our faults also...
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#21 Posted by nkg on June 19, 2008 2:50:26 am
Guru...I am from a remote coastal village of Bengal. No industry or industrial pollution. I am not defending the action of Union Carbide. My question is, do we react to the problem we are creating for ourselves the same way? We are polluting our rivers (including Ganges) which is causing recurrent damage to the people of our own. How many times, we have raised these issues? The tanneries in UP is polluting Ganges like anything. Muslims account for 19% of vote of UP. So, we will not shut those tanneries. I have talked about Vapi earlier...
The employees of these MNCs are Indians. What was the Indian employees of UC doing at the time of Bhopal gas leak?

Dana...
Gujjus are not against minorities (they were the people who had provided shelter to Persians from Islamic raiders during Sas... empire). They are against the moslems. Gujjus suffered a lot from islamic barbarism upto 1980s. In 2002, they have turned back the table such that moslems stops creating trouble again. Just to whip the dog to keep away from trouble temporarily.
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#20 Posted by Dana-e-raaz on June 18, 2008 7:27:04 pm
Re: # 19
"Your writing says more about you and Islam which worries so much about who is ruling the state and whether with sharia or not"

I believe that "Islamic sharia" is nothing but a "shararat", and I do not believe in any animal by this name, although I come from a Muslim family of Jammu.
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#19 Posted by guru on June 18, 2008 10:38:36 am
Re: # 18 It is not democracy, an alien concept, but the way it is implemented makes it look strange. Nkg might be harsh in words as he accepted, may be because he sees lot of black mailing, politicization of issues and compensation ending in wrong hands and not into hands of people who suffered.

BTW, I am not from MP, minority or poor/middle/upper middle class. Caring, compassion and sense of justice is in the Dharma of this land and DNA of the people. If you take away Semitic legions all people in the world are similarly endowed with compassion and sense of justice. Democracy has nothing to do with it. Your writing says more about you and Islam which worries so much about who is ruling the state and whether with sharia or not.
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#18 Posted by Dana-e-raaz on June 18, 2008 9:54:15 am
Indian democracy, though having a lot of good things in it is still very strange. If you read the comments of people, you can immediately judge where the person is coming from, as these comments are not from their heart, out of compassion, and love for fellow humans, but there are fixed brains, embedded in their caste, religion, belef system and tradition etc.
For example, if you read the comments in Gujrati media, you can immmediately observe the hatred for a minority community. Similarly, UP has a particular slant of ideas and so is Bihar.
I am not sure, if the Bhopal tragedy has any connection with this bent of mind. Probably, majority of the people affected were from the minority community and were very poor and impoverished.
Indian democracy, though on the right path, still needs a lot of time and concerted effort to correct the wrongdoings and embedded discriminations within its fibre.
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#17 Posted by nb on June 18, 2008 2:15:20 am
Guru, fellow MP wala? (thumbs up icon)
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#16 Posted by guru on June 18, 2008 2:07:42 am
Re: # 14: Have done protesting and litigations personally in 77-78 largest paper mill in Asia polluting Son in Shadol district in MP.

Recent converts to desert legions are more fanatic, so also recent converts to coca-colization. Scale of Bhopal disaster is more than even Chernobyl. Reading and taking in their propaganda of lifafa journalist of todays media can make you sell your mothers. Why UC treats Indians differently than white Americans when it comes to compensation? They charge same amt for a lb of pesticide whether in India or any where else.

Your argument siting env pollution at other places is like pointing at open fly of a old gentleman when someone is raping your sister in front of you. Sorry sounds very harsh! But did not like your insensitivity to people who perished and are suffering today. Is it newly-rich insensitivity and crassness?
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#15 Posted by nb on June 18, 2008 1:45:06 am
No Indian company has caused anything like this. You can see the devastation even today on the streets of Bhopal. This is not an ordinary industrial accident.
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#14 Posted by nkg on June 18, 2008 1:16:33 am
NB,Guru
My wordings was bad....
People try to extract every pound of flesh from these big companies for every small failures...
Large number of Indian companies are polluting environment and causing death. Who bothers about these companies?
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