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Tables of Contents for Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Letter to the Reader
xvii
Map of the City of Bhopal
xx
Part One. A New Star in the Indian Sky
1
170
Firecrackers That Kill, Cows That Die, Insects That Murder
3
14
The Planetary Holocaust Wrought by Armies of Ravaging Insects
17
6
A Neighborhood Called Orya Bustee
23
8
A Visionary Billionaire to the Rescue of Humanity's Food
31
6
Three Zealots on the Banks of the Hudson
37
4
The Daily Heroism of the People of the Bustees
41
6
An American Valley That Ruled the World
47
6
A Little Mouse under the Seats of Bhopal's Trains
53
6
A Poison That Smelled Like Boiled Cabbage
59
6
They Deserved the Mercy of God
65
6
``A Hand for the Future''
71
8
A Promised Land on the Ruins of a Legendary Kingdom
79
4
A Continent of Three Hundred Million Peasants and Six Hundred Languages
83
6
Some Very Peculiar Pimps
89
8
A Plant as ``Inoffensive as a Chocolate Factory''
97
10
A New Star in the Indian Sky
107
6
``They'll Never Dare Send in Their Bulldozers''
113
8
Wages of Fear on the Roads of Maharashtra
121
8
The Lazy Poets' Circle
129
8
``Carbide Has Poisoned Our Water!''
137
10
The First Deadly Drops from the ``Beautiful Plant''
147
4
Three Tanks Dressed up for a Carnival
151
8
``Half a Million Hours of Work and Not a Day Lost''
159
6
Everlasting Roots in the Black Earth of the Kali Grounds
165
6
Part Two. A Night Blessed by the Stars
171
96
A Gas That Makes You Laugh Before It Kills You
173
10
``You Will Be Reduced to Dust''
183
8
Ali Baba's Treasure for the Heroes of the Kali Grounds
191
8
The Sudden Arrival of a Cost-Cutting Gentleman
199
8
``My Beautiful Plant Was Losing Its Soul''
207
8
The Fiances of the Orya Bustee
215
8
The End of a Young Indian's Dream
223
6
The Vengeance of the People of the Kali Grounds
229
14
Festivities That Set Hearts Ablaze
243
4
A Sunday Unlike Any Other
247
10
A Night Blessed by the Stars
257
10
Part Three. Three Sarcophagi under the Moon
267
108
Three Sarcophagi under the Moon
269
8
``What if the Stars Were to Go on Strike?''
277
10
Geysers of Death
287
8
Lungs Bursting in the Heart of the Night
295
12
``Something Beyond All Comprehension''
307
16
``All Hell Has Broken Loose Here!''
323
12
A Half-Naked Holy Man in the Heart of a Deadly Cloud
335
10
The Dancing Girl Was Not Dead
345
12
``Death to the Killer Anderson!''
357
10
``Carbide Has Made Us the Center of the World''
367
8
Epilogue
375
16
What Became of Them
391
6
``All That Is Not Given Is Lost''
397