Revisiting Bhopal in 2014: India's Worst Industrial Disaster

In 1984, photographer Raghu Rai had visited Bhopal in the immediate aftermath of the disaster to document the effects of the leak on local communities.

30 years later, he returned to the city to compile the continued fight for justice.

Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak protest outside the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister's residence, demanding proper compensation, September 2014.

Shahzadi Bi, aged 60, Bhopal gas leak survivor, at her home in Blue Moon Colony, just a few hundred metres from the abandoned Union Carbide factory
Atal Ayub Nagar Colony behind the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Colony behind the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal

Patients at Sambhavna Clinic, which runs free clinics for survivors of the gas leak.
A patient at Sambhavna Clinic, which runs free clinics for survivors of the gas leak.
Bhagwant Rao, a government security guard, stands in front of the abandoned Union Carbide factory

Dr D K Satpathy, pathologist and former head of the Madhya Pradesh state Medico-Legal Institute, recalls the horrific condition of the bodies he had to examine at Hamidia Hospital in the immediate aftermath of the gas leak.
Shahzadi Bi (standing) with fellow activists preparing to chain themselves to the residence of the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in September 2014
Sathyu went to Bhopal as a volunteer a day after the gas leak and never left.

Today, he is a founder member of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action and the Sambhavna Trust.