It is that time of the year when we get a holiday on account of the infamous gas disaster in Bhopal. For thirty-one years Bhopalites have relaxed on the couches. This year, ‘The Remember Bhopal Museum’ established by a voluntary organisation has a better plan for the citizens.
The Remember Bhopal Museum on the occasion of thirty-first anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy and first anniversary of the Museum is organising an awareness programme. The programme will consist of cultural programme with Bhopal Gas tragedy as central theme, School competitions, Music Compositions, Jhaanki, Photo-Exhibition and satirical dramatic presentations.
At the cultural programmes scheduled at Shaheed Bhawan, the school children will present their opinion on Bhopal Gas tragedy by participating in competitions like Poetry Writing, Poster Making and Essay writing.
Young artists like Animesh Chaurasia and Amaan Khan are composing songs-rap song on the incidents of midnight of December 2-3, 1984 and aftermath. An exhibition of 1000 photographs will narrate the story Bhopal Gas tragedy and similar incidents across the country.
On the eve of thirty-first anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy a remembrance programme would be organised at Shaheed Bhawan where artists like Sofia Ashraf the Chennai rapper who made headlines around the globe with the 'Kodaikanal Won’t’ video, Yuvraj, Animesh, Amaan Khan, Anuja Sharma and Haris Rayeen will raise voice against industrial disasters.
Notably, ‘The Remember Bhopal Museum’ is a unique museum preserving the belongings and pictures of victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy, in which thousands had lost their lives after inhaling toxic gases leaked from Union Carbide plant, was thrown opened to public on the 30th anniversary of the disaster, last year. The first-of-its-kind museum, situated at New Housing Board Colony near now-defunct Union Carbide plant here, captures the horror which unfolded on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984 and also the trail of destruction in the world's worst industrial disaster.