Documenting Past Scars

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India

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Rohit Jain
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Living victims: Vikas Yadav, 19, and Aman Yadav, 17, brothers, have muscular dystrophy and are being cared for by their mother at their home. Affected by toxic waste which seeped into the groundwater, they will live short, painful lives. Image by Rohit Jain. India, 2018.

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Reports of congenital disabilities are significantly higher in the northern part of Bhopal, where...

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Vikas Yadav, 19, and Aman Yadav, 17, brothers, have muscular dystrophy and are being cared for by their mother at their home. Affected by toxic waste which seeped into the groundwater, they will live short, painful lives. Image by Rohit Jain. India, 2018. Image by Rohit Jain. India, 2019.

Aaliya, 14, struggling with intellectual disability and muscular dystrophy, with her father in their single-room house; Aaliya's mother, who was affected by the gas, passed away eight years ago. Now Aaliya is looked after by her father, Asad. Image by Rohit Jain. India, 2019.

On a short fuse: Rajni Panti, 21, a resident of one of the areas affected by the toxic gas leak in Bhopal, is always angry, earning the wrath of her neighbours who sometimes hit her back. Multiple disabilities have made this child of Bhopal gas leak survivors shy and irritable. Image by Rohit Jain. India, 2018.