More Power to Powerless People

A website powercuts.in logs power cuts through tweets.

A couple of weekends ago, on a guided tour of a TV studio, one manager opened a room door, pointed at something inside, and told this correspondent: “Generators. That’s for power cuts. Sometimes, it goes in the middle of live broadcasts.” He looked sheepish. Why, no one knows. He could have turned to Powercutindia, a Twitter account that promises much. It began with a complaint of a power cut in Mumbai’s Santacruz area by @netra. Two minutes later, @nixxin replied that ‘if Delhi-NCR started tweeting power cuts like this, it would trend in India all year’. Then, @shefaly suggested: ‘May be you guys SHOULD tweet #powercut with location. The infographic will highlight the need for investment.’ That was two months ago. Just 15 hours ago, it noted a tweet reporting a power cut in Noida. Since then, an uncluttered site has been created (powercuts.in), which has a log of where power cuts happen.

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