Summary on 'Bhopal Lives' by Suketu Mehta
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Bhopal lives is written by Suketu Mehta which is about a young rickshaw puller who got a job at a chemical plant factory which had a chemical spill in India in the month of December where many people lost their lives and some had got severe injuries.This incident had changed the lives of the sufferers.
"In 1984, December 3 there was a leakage in the pesticide plant in the Union Cambridge India Limited in Bhopal, Maharashtra. The gas that leaked is MIC (methyl isocyanide) which is a poisonous gas. Nearly 10,000 people died due to the gas leakage from the plant.
Moreover, so many people are partially disabled due to this effect. Bhopal gas leakage is one of the major world's Industrial Disaster. This breath taking tragedy was covered in all the newspapers in that time. It has been 30 years, still the effects of that incident is in and around Bhopal residents. "