Reddit reviews Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
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I was in Bhopal at that time, though we lived bit further away from the impact area.
My mother's best friend & her family (5 people) ran from their home to stay with us (2 bedroom sarkari house). Mother was a nurse in 1 of the best Hospitals in the city, I remember how busy she used to be, how terrible she(as a professional, who was was used to autopsies) felt at the sheer numbers/suffering.
Every day, you heard of sickening details on news, in the rumor mill - about people dead, no one to take care of them, about leaders/politicians ignoring them etc.
There were occasional rumors about wind changing direction, more leakages. We lived miles away, but I remember 1 day, we all got onto 1 scooter & went miles further away in a village outside the city.
If you get time, read Five Past Midnight, it is a great book on the topic. Especially the sacrifice/valor of railway employees.
That was bad, but the worse was yet to come - the dirty drama over compensation, about how people who didn't deserve the money, claimed & cornered money, about how the money was spend on pretentious construction. About how, some leaders claimed that their "community" wasn't given compensation money.
Great book on the subject: Five Past Midnight.
Offers some insights into the cause of the accident as well as the slow decline of safety in general at the plant. I was alarmed to learn that the plant in India was nearly mirrored EXACTLY by a plant in West Virginia. All the safety systems were the same, just the plant in India started to turn them all off as profits of Sevin dropped in the early eighties in India. Funny how Union Carbide didn't think to just shut the plant down and import the chemical like they did before the plant was built, rather than cut all the safety systems off when the margins got too thin.
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal is a good book that covers the incident from multiple perspectives.
The disaster, reaction and aftermath are all heartbreaking to read about. I hope the families affected by it are seeing brighter days as time goes on. I read this book on it a long time ago (10ish years back) but from what I remember it was a beautifully written story set against the backdrop of the tragedy.
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