Suroopa Mukherjee teaches English Literature in Hindu College, Delhi University, and writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. She is co-coordinator of a student group that creates youth awareness on issues relating to environmental damage and corporate crime. Suroopa has authored Bhopal Gas Tragedy for Tulika. She is a Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, doing a full time research project on women survivors of Bhopal. Her academic book on Bhopal was released in 2009 as part of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History.
When disaster struck on the night of 3 December 1984, it took a sleeping Bhopal by surprise — it woke thousands to their death, maimed thousands more for life. But the poison gas that poured out of the Union Carbide factory was also a wake-up call to the world. This book examines the causes, gives a background and traces the fallout — scientific, medical,...
