The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is irrevocably linked to the city of Bhopal in public perception. On the night of December 2, 1984, the leak of lethal Methyl Isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India led to one of world's worst industrial disasters. Yet the city of Bhopal has been ambivalent towards the legacy of the disaster, with the neglected, rapidly deteriorating factory site being one of the only spatial markers of the tragedy in the city. We share here, as architects of the memorial commissioned in 2005 by the government, our experience in engaging with remembering and forgetting in the overwhelming context of Bhopal.
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