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Published: 12 May 2021 12:23 AM BdST
Updated: 12 May 2021 12:23 AM BdST Manzoor Ahtesham. Northwestern University Press via The New York Times
To much of the outside world, the city of Bhopal, India, lingers as an emblem of industrial disaster, the place where a 1984 toxic gas leak from a Union Carbide plant killed thousands of people instantly and up to 15,000 over time. );
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Manzoor Ahtesham, a Bhopal native who was one of the most significant contemporary voices in Hindi literature, showed his readers a far more complex place.
To be sure, that disaster often hovers, metaphorically and otherwise, in his works. In one of his most acclaimed books, “The Tale of the Missing Man” (1995), his alienated antihero was with a prostitute behind his wife’s back on the night of the gas leak.
Manzoor Ahtesham, Writer Who Brought Bhopal to Life, Dies at 73
He focused with forensic precision on his native city, which was marked by an industrial tragedy in 1984. He was among the thousands in India to die of Covid-19 in the last few weeks.
Manzoor Ahtesham in an undated photo. A major voice in Hindi literature, he chronicled his native Bhopal in “The Tale of the Missing Man” and other works.Credit.Northwestern University Press
May 8, 2021
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To much of the outside world, the city of Bhopal, India, lingers as an emblem of industrial disaster, the place where a 1984 toxic gas leak from a Union Carbide plant killed thousands of people instantly and up to 15,000 over time.