Toxic Life in Death and Chirality in “Animal’s People”

The haunting image captured of a child in 1984 by Rohu Rai titled “Burial of Unknown Child” in the rubble of the Bhopal industrial disaster mirrors Animal, the protagonist of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People, a fictionalized account of  the incident. Although Sinha doesn’t directly reference this haunting image, the resemblance is uncanny. The image…