India Faces Huge Power Cut: What They Can Do
India has just seen what may be the world’s largest power cut, tossing more than 600 million people off the grid. This is half of the population. As you can see from the storify below, or read here (NYTimes) or here (Mashable), this is insane. Our power failures in Sri Lanka were scheduled, announced and minimal, and yet they still really hurt the economy and sucked. I can only imagine what Indians are going through.
As a small consolation, you can watch our video above on what sub-continentals can do during these trying times. You can see 10 Things To Do During Power Cuts in the video above, or click through to the YAMU link for some reading. Good luck. Hope the lights come back soon. You never know how much you miss this century until it’s gone.
Mohsin Hamid, author of How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia, has a nice 
I’m happy to be featured in Echelon magazine’s 40 Under 40 feature, profiling young people who contribute to the economy in some way, mainly in business but also in terms of innovation and thought leadership. It’s an interesting article not just in that I’m in it (mainly for work on indi.ca and 
I won’t add too much commentary, but just read I guess. The youngest Rajapaksa, Rohitha (Chi Chi) has given an amazing interview to the 
In 2009 this strange character appeared on the Sri Lankan Internet scene, getting angry, flaming, trolling whatever. Then he started naming anonymous bloggers, posting comments as people’s kids, nasty stuff, for which I removed him from 
Vat vat?? Don’t be silly men…can’t be. We are being told India is the most awesomest country in the world, and its economy is going to be the most biggest in the world and that their political system is the most stable – what with the riots in assam, and the maoist insurgency, and the Kashmiri separatists and all, and that we silly backward, primitive, Sri Lankans should emulate that great country in every respect. Jai Hind.
They may be overpopulated with caste system, gender issues, corruption and dirty but have set the basics right unlike us.
Hmmm. The satellite picture doesn’t seem right. I suspect some sort of Photoshop-esque job. If you look, Pakistan and Bangladesh are also blacked out, as are the southern states like Tamil Nadu. Yet those areas, supposedly, are not affected. The BBC has a map showing the regional power grids that were affected, and as you can see, that does not include the south, Pakistan or Bangladesh. So I wonder.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19060279
That’s because they are in this mess with India. The whole south Asia is in trouble when comes to electricity one way or another.
India is a sewer. India is literally a garbage dump. I would pee on them if I was flying over the sh1thole.