On 3 December 1984 clouds of poisonous gas from a pesticide factory in India killed thousands. A nun who helped the injured recalls that time in conversation with Andrew Johnson
“I’ll be walking by Christmas,” said the elderly lady in her lilting Dublin accent, still thick despite the 62 years she has lived in India. Sr Christopher may temporarily be in a wheelchair but is anything but frail. We are sitting in a room at the Miriam School for the Mentally Handicapped in Bhopal, which is in the middle of the country. The school is a sprawling, beautiful complex with a courtyard garden, a gymnasium, long corridors with brightly polished wooden floors and, of course, children.Sr Christopher helped found the school in 1969. But that is not why she has agreed to see me. Inste
27 November 2014, The Tablet
Light in dark hours
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