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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The curative petition in the Supreme Court has served as a cruel reminder of incomplete redressal of woes of survivors. The writer examines the claim that victims got compensation “twice over.” He also asks: Who has to bear the burden for the crimes committed by a multinational company?
The year 1961 culminated with the fervent hope for concrete progress towards disarmament, but that hope is severely dented even sixty years on.
The failure of the Bandung Conference to launch a permanent Asian-African nations’ organisation was a sign that the writ of the pro-militarist lobby within the Asian and African countries had ultimately prevailed.
To Nehru, disarmament in general, and the elimination of nuclear weapons in particular, were integral to the doctrine of non-alignment.
Organised opposition to colonialism and imperialism began in the late 1920s, and Indian leaders, especially Jawaharlal Nehru, made significant contributions via the Non-Aligned Movement.
Thirty-six years after the horrific gas leak, Union Carbide’s defunct pesticide plant continues to contaminate soil and groundwater.
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