After the Blackout: How India’s planners failed its people

The epic blackout that steeped half the country in darkness this week was a throwback to January 2001, when a similar grid failure plunged north India into darkness. Harsh Taneja, then a 19-year-old engineering student, was in Rajasthan on vacation with his family. They were traveling throughout north India — driving up from Chandigarh to Delhi and then taking a train to Rajasthan.

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