Satinath Sarangi

Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi was born in Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India, on 25 September 1954. Since 1984 he has lived in Bhopal. Sarangi has been involved with the multiple activities run by a network of local, national, and international groups, pursuing health and economic needs, fighting legal claims, providing medical support, and working to ensure remembrance of the Bhopal disaster of 1984. Sarangi is the founder of several activist organizations and is also the founder and manager of Sambhavna Trust.

Studies Educational Qualification: Master of Technology (M Tech) (Metallurgical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi. He enrolled for Ph.D. in 1980 but dropped out in 1984.

Activism before 1984 Sarangi's work as a campaigner started early as he became involved in various campaigns including indigenous people's struggle for self-determination in Bihar and the Society of Social Workers, students involved in organizing low-caste agricultural workers.

In December 1984, he was one of the founders of Zahareeli Gas Kand Sangharsh Morcha (Poisonous Gas Episode Struggle Front), an organization of survivors of the Union Carbide in the Bhopal disaster. In 1986, he founded the Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA). In 1989, he made a campaign tour to the US, UK, Ireland, and The Netherlands. Honorary graduate/Ph.D. at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh 2009. Ground Zero Patriot, Tehelka magazine, 2009.

Publications S. Sarangi, T. Zaidi, R.K. Pal, D. Katgara, V. G. Gadag, S. Mulay, and D.R. Varma, Effects of Exposure of Parents to Toxic Gases in Bhopal on the Offspring. American Journal of Industrial Medicine;53(8):836-41, 2010 Satinath Sarangi. Global Industrial Disaster, National State Failure and Local Self-provision of Health Care. Global Social Policy, Vol. 9(3): pp 316–318; 2009 Barn, S. Mulay, S. Sarangi; The Bhopal Gas Disaster twenty five years later British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada, Sambhavna Trust Clinic, Bhopal, India 2009-A-246-ISES Minneapolis, 1–5 November 2009 Daya R Varma, Ritesh Pal, Diana Katgara, Satinath Sarangi, Tasneem Zaidi, Steven Holleran, Rajashekhar Ramakrishnan and Shree Mulay. Catch-up growth in males affected by the Union Carbide disaster of 1984 in Bhopal, India. The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 22:1137.1, 2008 Bridget Hanna, Ward Morehouse, Satinath Sarangi (2005) The Bhopal Reader, Other India Press, Goa, India and The Apex Press, New York, USA Satinath Sarangi, Medical Crime, Seminar 544, New Delhi, December 2004

Satinath Sarangi: The Bhopal aftermath: generations of women affected. Silent Invaders - Pesticides, Livelihoods and Women's Health, Edited by Miriam Jacobs and Barbara Dinham, Zed Books, London 2003 Satinath Sarangi: Le de'sastre impuni de Bhopal, Pour Que Vive La Terre, Edited by Roger Cans and Benoit Hopquin, EPA-Hachette Livre, 2003 Satinath Sarangi: Crimes of Bhopal and the Global Campaign for Justice. Social Justice. San Francisco, Volume 29, Number 3, 2002 Barbara Dinham and Satinath Sarangi: The Bhopal gas tragedy-1984 to? The evasion of corporate responsibility, Environment and Urbanization IIED, London, Vol. 14 No. 1, April 2002 Sarangi S: An industrial disaster becomes a medical nightmare. Issues in Medical Ethics. Vol. 9, No. 3, July–September 2001, Mumbai, India. Sarangi Satinath: Bhopal Gas Tragedy. India Disasters Report - Towards a Policy Initiative, Edited by Parasuraman S, Unnikrishnan P. V. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000 Satinath Sarangi, The Movement in Bhopal and Its Lessons, Environmental Victims, Edited by Christopher Williams, Earthscan Publications Limited, London, 1998 Satinath Sarangi, "Health Care Plan for Bhopal Disaster Survivors, Going Nowhere" Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIII:16, 18 April 883–84, Mumbai, India, 1998. Satinath Sarangi, "Toxic Legacy of Union Carbide in Bhopal" Radical Journal of Health (New Series) Vol. II:I, 68–71, Mumbai, India, 1996. Satinath Sarangi, "Injured Psyches" Radical Journal of Health (New Series) Vol. I, 66–70, Mumbai, India, 1995. Satinath Sarangi "Bhopal Disaster : Judiciary’s Failure" Economic and Political Weekly, 18 November 2907 – 2909, Mumbai, India, 1995.

Lectures Addressed public meetings, seminars and conferences in Czechoslovakia, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States of America, including at the following Universities: University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Stanford University, San Francisco, Columbia University, New York, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC, London School of Economics, London, University of Sussex, Brighton, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands and other places.

Websites The Bhopal Medical Appeal The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal Students for Bhopal Chingari Trust