Podcast
Behind the Bastards
A 2018 article from The Atlantic, this book described the long-term impact of the Bhopal disaster on the residents of the area, emphasizing how the toxic waste continues to cause serious health problems for people living in the vicinity.
From the wooden bed outside her two-room house, Munny Be, the grand dame of Anu Nagar, has a wide lens on the devastation Munny Be's bed is less than 200 feet from a massive pit that UCC filled with t...
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A 2018 article from The Atlantic, this book described the long-term impact of the Bhopal disaster on the residents of the area, emphasizing how the toxic waste continues to cause serious health problems for people living in the vicinity.
From the wooden bed outside her two-room house, Munny Be, the grand dame of Anu Nagar, has a wide lens on the devastation Munny Be's bed is less than 200 feet from a massive pit that UCC filled with toxic sludge, close enough to witness the damage the ganda pani, dirty water, has wrought. Right next door is 15-year-old Fiza, who didn't speak for the first five years of her life and still has heart palpitations, dizzy spells, and headaches. The young woman who grew up two doors down, Tabassum, now has a toddler who doesn't eat much or speak or cry and has seizures. Down the street is Obis, a spindly-legged 13-year-old with black pustules all over his body, so painful and grotesque that he rarely leaves the house. Across the street from him is 12-year-old Tasib, who was intellectually disabled. And then there's Nashma, the street-sweet young woman who lost her mother to tongue cancer and now sits in front of her house all day, smiling and occasionally shouting out gutteral gibberish to passersby. And then there is the house where one daughter has fused bones in her legs and another has a hole in her heart.