The Children
Forty children. Forty years. One unfinished story.
Most people think Bhopal ended in 1984. It didn't. The factory's toxic waste still seeps into groundwater. Children are still being born with disabilities linked to contamination. Children are still being born with disabilities linked to contamination. After 40 years, no one has truly been held accountable.
The Chingari Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal provides therapy, special education, and physiotherapy to over 300 children affected by gas exposure and ongoing water contamination.Some children arrived unable to sit, speak, or stand. Many now walk, attend mainstream schools, and dream of becoming doctors, cricketers, police officers.
These portraits were made over multiple visits, gently in places where children were happy to be photographed with or without their nearest and dearest.
“I'm part of Team India. I won silver in basketball at the Special Olympics...”
— Disha
The book presents forty children through photography and their own words. Each profile includes their story, their progress at the centre, and their connection to the disaster—whether through parents, grandparents, or the contaminated groundwater they've grown up drinking.