As the railways minister, Mamata Banerjee may have flagged off many yatras in the past one year but the journey she has begun in her hometown of Kolkata promises to be the most ambitious yet.

On the grimy, filth-lined streets of Bhopal's walled city that were stalked by death more than 25 years back, the outrage following the June 7 judgement in the gas tragedy criminal case by a local Chief Judicial Magistrate's (CJM) court has slowly made way for quiet dejection. In the prevailing mood of gloom, the fears of the survivors of the world's worst industrial accident have come true.

In a remote village of district Chamoli, Uttarakhand, farmer Hari Singh no longer needs to travel to the distant bank branch.

Shock, horror, outrage. Those were the dominant reactions when the world woke up to the nightm