The Bhopal Gas Disaster: Impact on Health and Environment with activist and writer Nallukunnel Damodaran Jayaprakash

D. Jayaprakash is a dedicated activist renowned for his work against the havoc wreaked by corporate capital in India as well as other Southern countries. He studied the Russian language and literature at the Centre for Russian Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, from 1969 to 1974, and has for over twenty five years devoted himself voluntarily to the cause of the victims of the notorious Bhopal Gas Disaster in the town of Bhopal, India. Professor Himani Bannerji, York University, will introduce Mr. Jayaprakash’s lecture, which will also feature selections from the film The Betrayal of Bhopal (Granada TV, UK: 1985).

This event is presented by the Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough and York Centre for Asian Research, York University.