Power Up !!

The above phrase entered my mind when i first heard about the power outage in India during the month of july 2012.

It was simply a war on electricity by more than 800 million Indians, who have been scaring away the electrons for several hours. Such minor skirmishes are not new for us. After all, our's is the only country where Kirchoff's laws cannot be applied practically. 

Most of us have grown up fighting against power cuts. It could be a big deal for so called developed nations; they would have perished under such circumstances as their weather conditions and infrastructure are not compatible with power failures at all.

Let them enjoy their uninterrupted power supply, while we have fun in our own ways. We are basically laid-back, easy-going and resigned people. The aggressiveness you may notice in daily life, on roads or at work places, is just superficial. Our service providers remains extremely patient and spiritually blissful.

But our consumers have their own joyous moments when they draw unauthorized electricity, manipulate their meters and having settings with the linemen. 

Hence, whenever there is power-cut, everyone enjoys the punishment. A widespread outage is similar to a group punishment given to a whole class of students in a school for their unruly behavior. Only the honest folks are left fuming. But who had asked them to be honest in the first place? I would ask, "did any doctor prescribe 'honesty' to them? 

Had we fancied electricity even a bit, instead of copying the western technologies, we would have invented and implemented our own ways of producing it from solar energy. India is blessed with so much sunlight through out the year that if we started capturing and using solar energy efficiently, we would become a leader in the energy sector. Who knows, we could even become filthy rich like the gulf countries, and then could build the best infrastructure to all the citizens of India.

But that will need a lot of effort and those who can bring such a change are already living comfortable, laid-back lives with the help of natural manual labor, which is another renewable energy found in abundance in India.

We are the proof that Indians can live and multiply successfully without electricity. In future, when the other countries will have depleted their conventional energy resources, we will be still strong and singing "ham jee sakte.. jab tak hai jaan.. jab tak hai jaan..... !! "