It is the face of the Bhopal gas tragedy. The photograph of an unnamed child, barely out of infancy, looking out with an unrelenting gaze upon the world from the soil of a newly dug grave, was taken soon after the gas leak from the Union Carbide factory. It continues to symbolise the incalculable human cost of the world’s worst industrial calamity. Today, a full 25 years later, another generation of children, born to parents from the gas-affected, poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of the city, continue to bear the footprint of that fateful night when a cloud of deadly methyl isocyanate enshrouded the area.