by MUKUL DUBE
Corporations buy other corporations all the time: in capitalism it is a routine matter. The sale of Union Carbide to Dow Chemical — not including Union Carbide India — may also have been routine, or it may have been exceptional. In essence, what happened because of it was that there is no entity or individual left to be made to pay for the Bhopal disaster. As gas vanishes into the atmosphere, so the criminals of the gas leak have vanished. This suits all concerned, not least the Government of India, which goes about with a begging bowl asking for U.S. investment and which uses its powers and its chicanery as a stick to beat down ordinary Indians.