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Studying History, Safeguarding Our Land

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Dr Themistocles D’Silva has a long list of credentials. An alumnus of St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, Dr D’Silva has a doctorate in organic chemistry and has worked as a research scientist in the United States. There are 70 American patents and numerous scientific publications that stand as evidence to his academic prowess. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Dr D’Silva, has written about the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and given objective insight into it by disclosing little known facts about the actual cause of the gas leak. The book is called The Black Box of Bhopal: A Closer Look at the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster . His recently released book Unravelling History , is a revised edition of a previously written book Beyond the Beach: The Village of Arossim, Goa, in Historical Perspective . Environment Minister Alina Saldanha went on to praise Dr D’Silva for the vital role he played during the Anti Meta Strips agitation by supplying information about the deleterious effects o