Shamik Bhattacharjee and his father, Saroj, photographed in 1984 in Bhopal, India.

Saroj Bhattacharjee calls it the “biggest trauma” of his life. The 81-year-old Edmonton man was a maintenance engineer at Union Carbide in Bhopal in central India in 1984 when the toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank on Dec. 2 and 3. It's been linked to the deaths of thousands of people and half a million suffering injuries.