About the Book : Vital facts related to the gas leakage at Union Carbides pesticides plant on the night of December 2-3, 1984, may now never be known as the Madhya Pradesh Government has chosen to wind up the N.K. Singh Inquiry Commission that could have possibly revealed what actually happened on that dreadful night. Anees Chishti, who happened to be in the valley of horror and death and survived to reach the Union Carbide plant well before dawn, along with three other reporters, recorded the spontaneous and unguarded version of the plants managers, particularly regarding the time of and events preceding the gas leakage. As no stringed public record of the events after the biggest industrial disaster is available, it has been thought worth while to offer to the future researchers the diary of a news mans dispatches on some important aspects of the ghastly tragedy of Bhopal. This volume should prove a very useful document for an in-depth analysis of the vitalities of the Bhopal tragedy as it throws light on some aspects of the disaster that have not yet been discussed in detail. One gets in these pages valuable new information on many issues connected with the disaster. Apart from offering useful material on the technicalities of the tragedy that struck Bhopal, it also gives an idea of a reporters problems in a disaster situation. About Author : Anees Chishti, free-lance journalist, has had a versatile experience in different areas of communications. After securing his Master's degree in Science from Aligarh University, he started writing on a variety of subjects. He worked as Assistant Editor, Mainstream and Assistant Editor, Seminar, after a stint as Feature Writer for an agency. He was the Theatre and Dance columnist of Shankar's Weekly and contributed a columnon the media to Point of View. His articles have appeared in a number of newspapers and periodicals. His recent analyses of Muslim political thought and activity in periodicals like Economic and Political Weekly and The Sunday Observer have attracted wide attention.