Indra Sinha
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- Date de naissance
- 1950
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- India (birth)
UK (citizen) - Lieu de naissance
- Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Études
- Cambridge University (Pembroke College) (English Literature)
- Professions
- advertising copywriter
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- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 1,003
- Popularité
- #25,717
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 32
- ISBN
- 45
- Langues
- 10
The Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal India in 1984 is one of the worst industrial accidents in history. Over 16,000 people killed over night when poison is released from the insecticide plant, over 40,000 permanently disabled or maimed, and over 1/2 a million people exposed to toxic chemicals. The company denied responsibility for a long time, never cleaned up the site or paid anything close to full reparations. Just a casual Wikipedia search of Union Carbide shows a pattern of industrial accidents for which they've taken little responsibility.
This story opens 20 years later. The main character - Animal - was an infant on the night of the chemical leak. Both his parents perished, and he was left horrible maimed. The story is told as a verbal history to be given to a Western journalist.
Animal is on the periphery of a group of activists working to hold the company responsible as they win a temporary and ephemeral victory in court. The action takes place over the course of a few months, with lots of flashbacks to the history of Animal and the people in his life.
Really well written and hard to put down, but also pretty shocking.… (plus d'informations)