Friday, December 14, 2007

Batti bandh tomorrow

One hour tomorrow.

From 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

All lights off.

Home, work, wherever.

Do it. Do it because you want to and do it because you believe. And with that one hour, go walk. Go to a park, a garden, a street. It's a Saturday. It's Mumbai. There's always things to do that don't involve starting at a computer screen or a TV screen.

More details here.

2 comments:

Deepa said...

I hope the young energetic citizens who worked hard to set this up do not feel let down at some of the response/lack of it and also take it as an opportunity to learn and what can be handled differently and which can be applied another time.

Some simple things I can suggest are start small, start local, call it Bujhao-instead of bandh- Bandh is a word that the work/party ethic mumbaikars do not like and such things that may be relevant.

Rgds, Deepa

Anonymous said...

Mass non consumption of electricity during a short period of time does not help. Electricity can not be stored. The way to solve electricity shortage is to have phased non-consumption..one hour each in different parts of the city.. anyway , i think this effort was more symbolic..