Does this look like the end ? half of the biggest democracy in the world with no power.
A slow decay into a wretched demise is upon us, not one of nuclear bombs or listening to Metallica, but a collapse of infrastructure and political inaction.
It appears the plug was pulled on Northern India and plunged some 600 million people into darkness and a Vindaloo misery.
A ghastly grab by the south of the country that used more of their share of electricity - is this how civilizations implode?
That wouldn't complete the conspiracy, for climate change has contributed too, in some areas, weak monsoon forces farmers to use more electricity to irrigate thus adding burden on an already archaic system.
And for the emerging middle classes there is a price to pay for Smartphone’s, computers and air conditioning. What use are these gadgets if the load cannot be sustained?
No power means (without backup generators) standstill, utter chaos and no Facebook or Twitter to narrate the suffering.
It’s wonderful for Apple and Samsung to rent us sexy gizmo's salacious as they are. But despite less consumption than Canada and the USA combined, India has to have a reliable grid to run these things; Talk about the cart before the horse.
On Tenth and 42nd many miles away, gleaming stumps in the sky wait for new occupants, the New World has it all worked out, Really ? – and the new power plants are where exactly?
One can look mighty foolish in a fancy apartment with no electricity - Bike lanes can only do so much.
A blackout of the system is a blackout of the spirit, and unless sanity prevails we all could meet a suffocating and sweaty end.
Cheerfully yours … Stuck in the Mud.
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