Raghu Rai obituary (opens in new tab)

Celebrated photographer who captured the political upheavals and everyday life of post-independence India In the early hours of 3 December 1984, the photographer Raghu Rai was woken by a phone call from his editor at India Today alerting him to a catastrophic gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal. Thousands had been killed in what would become known as the world’s worst industrial disaster.Rai took the first flight out of Delhi, arriving that morning to a city overwhelmed by...