State of technology in my home town (Kerala)

I stay in Kerala, southern state of India. Kerala is unique in many respects. I won’t go into details but in short, day to day life here is a challenge!

Today I came back from work early since I was not feeling well. Summer is at its peak and there was no electricity when I came home. My father told me that power was down from morning. I called electricity office to check on the status. Here is the conversation,

Me: Hello
Electricity office guy: Hello, electricity office

Me: We don’t have power in area “xyz”
Electricity office guy: We have switched off electricity in the entire “abc” area

Me: Why? What happened?
Electricity office guy: We are painting the transformer

Me: eh? painting? oh! When will it be over?
Electricity office guy: No idea, probably by evening

As you can guess, power came back after 12 hours of painting! You can imagine how challenging it is to run a business around here :-)

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3 Responses to “State of technology in my home town (Kerala)”

  • 1
    Binny V A
    April 19th, 2007 21:49

    I share your pain. In Cochin, I have the same problems…

  • 2
    Nirmal
    April 20th, 2007 16:20

    Ha ha ha…..its not only southern kerala, Kochi has also same kind of problems. Its actually the problem with KSEB. :-)

  • 3
    jessel
    April 25th, 2007 18:53

    i remember being there for the december holidays — didn’t happen — but in Surat & Navsari (Gujarat) — it happened too many times — now i at least know why — maybe next time — i’m there for the holidays — i’ll help them paint — so it gets done quicker –

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