The Melting Pot

Power’s unkind shower!

There is indeed a huge shortage of power nowadays. And it surely is affecting the common people.
Right now I am in Delhi and yesterday as we were going home, Dad, looking at the overtly lit area( somewhere in front of Fiends Colony), said,” I dunno why they light so many street lights!? There is barely a difference of I meter b/w 2 street light-poles and with all the cars having lights and the area also being so heavily crowded by them, I think they should withdraw electricity from these poles.” I said, “ They should light every alternative pole, that would save at least half of the presently-consumed elec..”

We reached home and today morning the headline of TOI was, “it’s lights out at 7.30 PM”. The article announced various restrictions imposed by the Delhi-Govt. on the usage or rather saving of electricity.
Ø Markets, malls to be closed by 7.30 P.M.
Ø A.C. in govt. offices to be switched off by 6.30 P.M.
Ø Residents to operate A.C.s only after 9 P.M.
These were the snippets. Already there are so many power-cuts in Delhi that even the inverters give up after a while. The Govt, expects off the civilians to be careful about electricity but the waste which they are doing is not being watched over. on the way to Delhi, something like 10-12 kms before the ring road, numeral banquet-halls and resorts have opened—actually in abundance. And I was surprised to see that in almost all of ‘em, you cannot find the silhouette (ouch!) or the outline, to be blunt, of the building. It is lighted in such a manner that it literally hurts the eyes! I dunno that by how many centimeters my cornea would have contracted! But the Govt. has all its eyes closed for them. Damn! Go and tell them to save elec.. the Govt. makes the common man pay for the shortage of elec. by tolerating those power-cuts and for the ones who are actually wasting power, it is doing nothing. It is so hot outside that you can’t just go out in the day and inside the house, it is slowly getting almost similar. But thanx to my inverter, seriously, YOU ROCK!!!

But the biggest problem 4 me is that as I am not much of a frequent shopper, I just shop in summer coz of my janam-din. But this time all the malls are gonna be closed by 7.30 P.M. and we actually go out to shop at 7 P.M. Damn! What am I gonna do this time!!!