bhopal gas tragedy

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Over the years, Dr DK Satpathy from Madhya Pradesh says he and his team conducted autopsies on 18,000 bodies. He recalls the horrifying accounts that fateful night on 3 December 1984.

"Ultimately, integrity, ethics and decisiveness all come from motivation, and if an [IAS] officer is correctly motivated to serve the people, he is bound to be honest and ethical," wrote the #IAS officer who was honoured with India's third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.

Named Polly and Shanu, these furry friends gifted life to their families, even as the horrible tragedy took thousands of others all around them

'Jabbar bhai' lost his mother, father and brother to the world's worst industrial accident. He himself suffered lung fibrosis and lost 50% of his vision. But he never stopped fighting. #ForgottenHeroes #BhopalGasTragedy

Few people know that during the Bhopal gas tragedy, a heroic stationmaster risked his own life to save others. This is the little known story of deputy station superintendent Ghulam Dastagir, without whom the casualities in the catastrophe would have been much higher.