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Was there a grid breakdown?

I hear that on the 30th and 31st of July, the world woke up to the news of the biggest blackout in history, the great Indian blackout. First chaos and then darkness engulfed most of north India (well, darkness yes but not chaos really).

As I got from the new papers the next morning (yes, I didn't know of the big black out until the next morning), 3 grids (the northern, the eastern and the northeastern) broke down resulting in collapse…

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Added by Ankit Kumar on August 3, 2012 at 12:12am — 4 Comments

Return of the shirtless

No, this post is not about the Bollywood film star Salman Khan or his new movie "Ek tha Tiger" (There was a Tiger). Although, the caption would be befitting for Salman considering that he is a…

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Added by Ankit Kumar on July 20, 2012 at 7:37am — No Comments

Have you heard of Husk Power

"tamso ma jyotirgamayam", meaning "from darkness, take me to light". This is the Sanskrit script in the lower left corner of the picture above. This is the tag line, the punch line of Husk Power Systems.

As per husk power system's website,

"We are world leaders in decentralised generation and distribution of electric power.

Husk Power Systems (“HPS”) lighted the first village from its first 100% biomass based power…

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Added by Ankit Kumar on July 9, 2012 at 10:21am — 6 Comments

Energy and protest politics: insiders and outsiders

Continuing the discussion on the politics of protest from the last week's post on the rise in petrol prices in India, this time we take a look at the actors who are not a part of the central government regime. so, while last week we talked about the protest politics of the regime participants or the coalition partners, this time we take a look at the opposition.…

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Added by Ankit Kumar on June 8, 2012 at 5:49am — No Comments

Energy and protest politics

A few weeks ago, the people of India were gifted with one of the steepest hike in petrol prices; a hike of about Rs 7.5. This came as a surprise to many while some commentators argued that this was a natural hike. While the Indian people have been quietly protesting (in their drawing rooms) the continuous hike in petrol prices that came after its deregulation in 2010, this time the protest was much more vocal due to the steepness of the hike.…

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Added by Ankit Kumar on June 6, 2012 at 10:48am — 1 Comment