Bhopal: Profit After Poison

They thought it was just fog rolling in from the lake, but it was actually a death sentence

signed by a corporation that would end up paying just forty-three cents per share for the deadliest

industrial disaster in human history. This is the story of how insurance loopholes,

liability shields, and absolute corporate greed turned a massacre into what executives privately called

their best financial year on record. It is December third, nineteen eighty-four. The city of Bhopal

in central India is sleeping. It is a cold winter night, and in the narrow,

cramped lanes of the Jayaprakash Nagar neighborhood, families are huddled together for warmth.

These are the working poor, the laborers, the people who built the city.