Bhopal
Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, short-listed for the Booker Prize, is dedicated to a Bhopal survivor, Sunil Kumar. I was very moved by Sinha’s tribute to this man who struggled for a long time and then killed himself. In the latest Tehelka, Salil Tripathi has profiled Sinha, who is a Bombay-born copywriter now living and writing in France. Kitabkhana alerts us to a website dedicated to Khaufpur, a fictional town resembling Bhopal where the novel is set. And here is Siddhartha Deb’s recent report in the Guardian on the lies and betrayals that are a part of the story of Bhopal.
