For the aam aadmi , i.e. the common man the load shedding has proved to be a boon in disguise .
It has instilled a sense of punctuality , endurance , discipline among the masses and also has taught value of money to common man .
Load shedding has taught us the value of time . The government offices are having record attendance now a days . The employees do not have to work as due to load shedding , computers do not work. Once the lights are back , they can do overtime to compensate for lost hours !
Nothing can be more punctual than load shedding schedules . I often correct my watch timings with time of load shedding . By and large electricity department never follow Indian standard time while applying load shedding . They possibly follow Green witch timings , as at exact time , the lights would go off .
The load shedding may help in reducing country’s population by default . By and large during our most crucial moments , the lights go off. When a patient is very critically sick , needs to be brought to the hospital by lift , or needs to be hooked to a cardiac monitor , the lights would go off . The patient undergoing major surgeries or dialysis , or infants in the premature baby unit suffer most .
The wives of the surgeons are very happy as they are now finding their better halves more at home than in the hospital . Their children have also started identifying their parents as their doctor parents find more time for children due to load shedding .
The parents are happy too . The children who had become addicted to television serials are now back to the study tables with kerosene lamps !
Earlier due to well lit nights , the stars in the sky were not visible but now we regularly watch the sky and wonder the creative skills of the Creator . The moon has regained its lost glory , it blesses the world with its soothing light during load shedding hours .
Besides human beings , the vertebrates and invertebrates too are joyful due to load shedding . The mosquitoes are happy as the mosquito repellents are mostly electricity dependent . These are the days of merry making for these poor tiny creatures . After all they also need to survive ! Mosquitoes also help in controlling countries’ population by inflicting humane with dengue and malaria .
The mosquito-net sellers are also very happy . They had never seen such a boom in sales of mosquito nets .
The people dealing with inverters and generators are more than happy now a days . Their sales have soared high . Sale of petrol or diesel have also soared high , as the generators need fuel to produce power . It is but natural for the prices of these commodities to go up .
All the good and auspicious works are done during early morning hours , i.e. bramha-muhurtum . Similarly all the black deeds are done in dark hours of night . The thieves and dacoits have hay - day now , thanks to load shedding . The petty thieves and chain snatchers are turning in to full time thieves . The thieves are becoming dacoits . I wonder whether the dacoits would now think of joining politics and bring a constitution amendment to make load shedding compulsory !
Because of hot climate and mosquitoes , people are not getting peaceful sleep during load shedding . The staticians dealing with demography are predicting that there is a likelihood of population boom for obvious reasons !
Load shedding at times may create funny situations . In a town in South India , during a period of load shedding , in a mass marriage ceremony , a groom garlanded a wrong bride in the darkness and a bride in turn garlanded her own friend instead of the groom . Fortunately the wrongs were detected in the right time and then the elders of the family did the needful to rectify the mistakes .
In spite of so many benefits , the aam aadmi are the unhappy lot . These poor , stupid , so called tolerant chaps are drained off and virtually squeezed to the extent of intolerance due to load shedding .
