Bhopal Gas Tragedy: 37 years on, children then not born scarred forever

Hundreds of children are still suffering from congenital disabilities like blindness and cerebral palsy 37 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, dubbed the world's worst industrial disaster.

They were not born at the time, but hundreds of children live the horrors of that intervening night of December 2-3, 1984, every minute of every day -- their bodies trapped forever in congenital disabilities such as blindness and cerebral palsy.

Thirty-seven years and some three generations later, the darkness of that night when 40 tonnes of lethal methyl isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide plant hangs like an impenetrable cloud over the lives of untold thousands, including children as young as three whose parents were exposed to the toxin when they themselves were children.