Lalit Shastri ( born 1957 ) is an Indian journalist , , columnist , wildlife film maker , birder , and environmentalist . He is a former Principal Correspondent of The Hindu and a Special Correspondent of The Asian Age - two of India 's leading English newspapers . He quit a corporate job to investigate the causes leading to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and subsequently became a full-time journalist . He has extensively covered from ground zero for The Hindu , the riots that followed the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya and repeated attacks by Naxalite-Maoists in the Central Indian States of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal gas disaster
Bhopal disaster
Lalit Shastri