Quality of Life

For last couple of years, power outages have become a big problem in India. Last summer, we had a severe power shortage situation in Pune. Things became so bad, that every day,  power was switched off  by the electricity provider for as long as  four or even six hours. Work, leisure, almost every thing, had to be rescheduled.  Rich, poor, everybody suffered equally.  Life became absolutely unbearable during those summer months with Sunlight baking us in our houses and no fans to cool us.  Luckily for me, I could  leave  Pune at that time, for a long sojourn in U.S.A.  After I had reached my destination, my sense of relief was almost beyond expression. I had never  felt so much distressed before,  in any of my previous visits to this country, by  the difference in the quality of life in the western world and India.