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.
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“Ten, fifteen, twenty thousand killed, blinded and maimed and their distraught families keep screaming – in person or in spirit – on Bhopal and New Delhi streets. We’ll compensate them with some small money and then turn the page on the history book and move forward; better yet, erase that history from newly published text books. Happily, in today’s Jai Ho Incredible India, nobody gives a hoot about history. So, no bother.” – Partha Banerjee, social activist.