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Waiting for Warren Anderson

By Lavina Melwani • Jun 18th, 2010 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog

Recently 12-year-old Akash Viswanath Mehta, founder of Kids for a Better Future, along with his 14-year-old brother Gautama and other volunteers, tried to deliver a warrant for the arrest of Warren Anderson, former CEO of Union Carbide, in Manhattan. Not much happened but at least some awareness was created, especially in the media. Even symbolism is better than no protest, because without protest, it’s an easy road to indifference, and eventually to forgetting.


The Littlest Bhopalis

By Lavina Melwani • Dec 5th, 2009 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog

The world has a short memory with just too many disasters, too little time and too many important things to remember. That’s why the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst gas disaster passed by in a flurry of everyday preoccupations here in New York. The fact remains that the victims of this horrific tragedy have not been compensated adequately and their nightmare continues, while the rest of the world moves on.

So here is a little story of little people trying to do what the grown-ups should be doing – protesting the outrage.