Save the country from Industrial Waste.

Hi Ppl,
Last evening I had been to Alliance Francaise to check out the photography exhibition titled "Bhopal 1000". Followed by screen of the documentary "Hunting Anderson" (CEO of Union Carbide, chemical company reason for the Bhopal gas tragedy).

Well I dropped in because it was longtime since I had touched base with the art world. But it turned out to be a thought provoking evening. I happened to know a lot about gas tradegy. There were about 8000 poeple who were killed in this. Union Carbide the company which was responsible for this mishap had actually switched off most of the safety plant as a cost cutting measure on that particular night. India governement had put up a compensation case for 3billion and the UC has paid a fraction of it 470million. and the worst part is only a fraction of that has reached the the affected people...

The photo exhibition was not just to highlight what happened at bhopal but also to bring to light the problems faced due to industrial waste in places like cuddalore, mettur, manali etc. This was an awareness camp. I believe cuddalore is the most affected place in tamilnadu with these kind of industrial pollution. And governement is planning to setup couple of more industries in cudddalore.

The exhibition and documentary touched me for a lot of reasons, the most important one being am I not conscious about the nature and people around me? and I told to myself I will spread the awareness of industrial pollution and its adverse effect to people whom i know.

You can get more info about this in: http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com

There is an online petition which you can sign which is available at:
http://www.sipcotcuddalore.com/action.html

If you get the time please visit Alliance francaise, chennai. The exhibition is on until 11th. (11 am-7pm)