Bhopal, Gift-Wrapped

Bhopal: The Lessons of a Tragedy by Sanjoy Hazarika; Penguin Books (India), New Delhi, 1987; pp 230, Rs 60.
IF proof were needed that Bhopal has been relegated to history here it is. Compactly in 200-odd pages Sanjoy Hazarika has lucidly sanitised the disaster so that the horror of that December night and the much worse trauma of the months and years since can be read in the comfort of our drawing rooms. It is certainly not an unfeeling narration