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Raghu Karnad
Raghu Karnad moved to New Delhi to work for the Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre, where he researched refugee law and drafted the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Bill (Regulation Bill, 2006). From October 2006 to February 2007, he wrote for Outlook magazine in New Delhi, and since then he has worked on a freelance basis, writing primarily for Tehelka magazine in New Delhi. He reports mainly on issues of freedom of speech and political rights. |
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"Air, Water, Earth And The Sins Of The Powerful" is an article about the ongoing contamination of groundwater by toxic waste left at the site of the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal - the site of the worst industrial disaster in history. Medical symptoms of poisoning are now rampant in local communities. Protesting the government's failure to clean up the site and its efforts to exonerate Dow Chemicals from trial, survivors marched from Bhopal to Delhi in April 2008. Raghu Karnad's article was the only English print story to cover the march or the contamination crisis. Within a month, the Prime Minister acceded to the survivors' main demands and agreed to make Dow Chemical face trial. |
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