stationmaster

When Akshara reached the stationmaster’s office, she admitted that she had lost her purse around 9 pm. And it was only because of Dipchand’s honesty, that she had recovered it within an hour.

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.