A journalist's viewpoint on the tragedy due to leakage of methyl icocyanate gas from Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 1984."Bhopal Disaster - An Eyewitness Account" was launched by the then President of India Gyani Zail Singh in Rashtrapati Bhawan in 1986. The book is a result of extensive survey by renowned Indian journalist Lalit Shastri in the gas affected areas, interviews of doctors, scientists, Union Carbide managers and employees, gas affected citizens, important functionaries of ILO and WHO headquarters in Geneva, attorneys in the USA and a ground level assessment of the Union Carbide Plant and its safety system in Institute, West Virginia, USA.