Blackout illuminates a false choice - India or China?

For the best part of a century the provision of electrical power has been one of the touchstones of development. It was Lenin who declared in 1920 that "electrification of the whole country" would create the communist paradise in Russia. So it is no surprise that the world's largest power cut - two days this week when more than 600 million people across India were deprived of electricity - has made headlines across the world.

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