Event Watch

Election and Power are Directly Related in Gurgaon!

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

I’d dreaded this time’s election not only thinking of its mismanagement in Gurgaon but also because in the weeks leading up to it, suddenly we had electricity almost all our days and nights. As a result, we acquired the bad habit of being in a cool house and seeing our appliances work at all times.
Now [...]

Powerless but Connected

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

There hasn’t been a week in my 12 years in Gurgaon when I haven’t wondered about DHBVN’s viability as a power provider in this city. Their service is useless, supply highly erratic and phones constantly busy.
There are days every week when outages last 5-8 hours at a stretch or certainly average to that long with [...]