Sunday 5 August 2012

Andheri Nagri main Chaupat Raja - Straight from the Hip by J Mulraj
Is the title of a play, which roughly translates into a crazy king ruling over a dark kingdom. The failure of the entire Northern grid, which plunged over 600 million people, a tenth of humanity, into darkness and ensuing chaos, over two days, made India literally a dark kingdom and condemned it further in the eyes of not only global investors but its own people. 

Power grids are NOT supposed to collapse as they did. They are supposed to switch power off to states who withdraw too much of it. The culprits were three states, U.P., Punjab and Haryana, which overdrew, and were permitted to, thus endangering the whole system and plunging a tenth of humanity into utter darkness. 

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