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Friday, December 3, 2004 at 10:00 AM EST
Bhopal: 20 Years Later
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Twenty years ago today, a Union Carbide plant released a massive cloud of toxic gas over the Indian city of Bhopal which immediately claimed the lives of 4,000 people.

In the years that followed, the death count rose to almost 15,000 according to some estimates.

In this radio diary, Suketu Mehta, award winning author of “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,” remembers the disaster and its impact twenty years later.

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Suketu Mehta, award winning author of “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found”

 
 

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