Electricity! How we get used to it! In a metro like city such as Pune, electricity is literally oxygen. The kind of high rise buildings everywhere, one wonders what must be happening to the senior citizens there, if there is no electricity, and, hence, no elevator! How to climb up floors beyond the third upwards!?!
Let me give you my own example. No, no staircase is involved. I live on the ground floor. I was conducting my early morning online lecture, and suddenly to the shouts and screams of "Ajay, Ajay", the power cut began.
Both, the catcalls "Ajay, Ajay" and the power cut, continued till 4.50 p. m. The second half of my morning online lecture, I continued in utter darkness. There was an online seminar. It was my power bank which enabled me to attend it. In fact, the delays in uploading the blogs and the "Soupçon" is utterly due to this power cut.
Weird was the response of the MSEB. I contacted the Rasta Peth office. The lady on the line was very courteous. She asked me to call back after half an hour so that she could find out. Next she told me that not even one of all the concerned lines could be contacted! The third time I called up to get to know the status quo, that line also would not answer.
When I checked the 18002333435 number, I was told that the number is wrong! All along, the weird shrill cries of "Ajay, Ajay" refused to die down! The 18002123435 operator wanted me to tell her how far (not how long, please note) the power cut extended. Finding out the area has to be the MSEB job when I gave the customer number, the address, the landmark nearby, not to forget my mobile number! About the possible cause behind the power cut, she hazarded a guess! It could be for line repair work!
I requested a neighbour to lodge a complaint, too. At last, after six hours, the current was restored. I did not miss much, given the power bank. I also made the home cool in simple ways. The fridge, too, remained cool enough. No problems hence at all!
Funny was the message about the complaint by the MSEB (in extremely poor English! Oh, yes, incidentally, I spoke in Marathi!) after the power was restored !!! Why attempt English, if you cannot manage it? Marathi is our mother tongue, and has been made compulsory in official transactions!
If the rates of electricity are to be increased, so should be the service! When it comes to meter reading, to give yet another example, every month, there is a fiasco. On every eighth of each month, I wait and wait, but the meter reading fellow never turns up, and cooly reports that the door was closed!!! When, by chance, he comes, he is interested in the death of one Mr. Gadekar about which i have no clues whatsoever!
How I wish the bigwigs supporting such "Ajay, Ajay" types were to instead take care of their own politically dwindling party, or two. Surely, without their support to the Ajay's and others of his ilk, such riffraff will not dare to behave so ridiculously. If so much energy were instead spent on the concerned party, at least, Maharashtra might enjoy some opposition party, or two, worth its name!
Pratima@ It is always the precaution as well as traditional methods that are eternally helpful. Those were the ways i could comfortably survive a power cut during a particularly hot April!
Quote of the day: Those, who dig ditches for others, fall in to it themselves!Such ditches are as crazy as the empty minds that have NOTHING to do, and hence are devilish, as per the proverbial wisdom!
Word of the day: Weird Weird" is an adjective describing something strange, unusual, or unexpected, often with a slightly unsettling or eccentric or even eerie quality. Bizzare like the "Ajay, Ajay" catcalls, for instance!
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