This is a poster of an ad for Union Carbide to its market in India in the year 1962 (Click on the image for a larger view). The visuals of this ad are painfully mocking to its succeeding catastrophe. The tag line is even more apt - 'A hand in things to come'.

For those of you who don't know, Union Carbide was responsible for the Bhopal Gas tragedy in India in the year 1984, which not only took many lives, but people are still enduring long term health consequences, only because they decided to wash their hands off whole business. The victims of the tragedy and the victims of the later consequences, till date have not received any form of rehabilitation. Read more about it here and see some of the horrifying images of whats left today.