The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is frequently cited as the world's worst industrial and environmental disaster. It is 25 years since its occurrence in 1984 and the toxic chemicals abandoned at the Union Carbide plant continue to pollute the ground water in the region implicating serious health hazards for its victims and residents of Bhopal.
Panelists: Samar Singh Jodha (Artist) Satinath Sarangi (Social Activist) Rachna Dhingra (Social Activist) and Sanjay Verma (Survivor).
Discussant: Bittu Sahgal (Editor, Sanctuary Asia)
Samar Singh Jodha (social activist/photographer/filmmaker) has done extensive research work on this tragedy including photography. Since the last five years, he has been working on a documentary on this subject for the BBC and his work captures various aspects of the impact of this calamity on the local communities and their immediate environment. These series of images are shot at the Union Carbide plant and speak about the emptiness and the eerie silence that permeates this space. Some of the areas are comparable to the feeling of walking through the Auschwitz cells. The focus is to create a platform with fine art photography and bring in a forum of experts to highlight/debate its continual issues in the present context and bring it into the collective consciousness of the public.
This program will coincide with an installation/exhibition by Samar Jodha at Gallery Beyond, Mumbai.
Supported by: Hivos.
Admission free and open to all on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Little Theatre, NCPA
www.ncpamumbai.com
NCPA Marg, Nariman Point
Mumbai, Maharastra 400 021
022 22834678
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