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Photographs at Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal, 2009

by Pushkar Thakur on 7 Sep 2009

In Bhopal for a weekend visit, I couldn’t resist going over to the old factory with my camera for company. Early Sunday morning, I drove over at 7 am minus the knowledge of what to expect. The guards inside asked for papers required to visit which I obviously didn’t have or know about, however, it is India, and it didn’t take much to get a guided tour of the entire compound which lies untouched 25 years from when the disastrous chemical leak happened.

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3 Comments »

  1. Pushkar these pics have been haunting me, can’t imagine what it must have been like to be there.

    //Aashti
    6 September 2009 at 12:24 PM

  2. Went there for a story last year… after a few hours that chemical smell started getting to us. Did you see some of the families who live close by? The effects are obvious even now. Just terrible.

    //mahima
    6 September 2009 at 7:48 PM

  3. Aashti it’s terrible, what happened 25 years back and like Mahima pointed out, it’s still there, sort of suspended in time…you walk through the place and you see death all around, the smell chokes you and this quiet silence envelopes the area. what’s sadder is that the place is as it was when it happened, why can we not move on and clean it up and develop it for the future generations, why do we have to get stuck on every damn thing!

    //Pushkar
    8 September 2009 at 11:44 PM

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