`Wanted Employment, Not Alms´: His fight began with Bhopal gas leak, lasted till death despite ...
(WorldNews India)

In the aftermath of the 1984 gas disaster that killed thousands of people and left lakhs affected, the government had started distributing free ration in Bhopal and people had to wait in long queues for their turn. Advertising But Abdul Jabbar found the manner in which the largesse was distributed unbearable. `We didn´t want alms, we wanted employment,` he recalled his feelings on the 25th anniversary of the worst industrial disaster. It was this spirit that led to the formation of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan, an organisation that not only mobilised women but also provided them vocational training. More than half of those women were Muslims. The sight of burqa-clad women...