Zero Bulb Ideas (4): Power Back-up Plan

‘Don’t watch movies on television’, my sister advises, ‘you will not be able to complete a single movie’. That is the situation of electricity supply in the great Capital city of Kohima. Very few works get done in offices because most of the works are done in the computer. Stomachs grumble because of half cooked rice. This happens because like movie watching experience, halfway through cooking in electric rice cookers, power goes off and not many cooks have mastered the technique of cooking the later half through a different source (firewook or LPG). It has been heard that the Power Minister and a handful of other big shots are on a Generator/Inverter buying spree to power their houses. Rumours are heard that someone has an Inverter which can run a saw mill. Also gossips are heard that if the present government returns to power, they are going to project in their action plan for the next financial year to procure Inverters for each household. Electricity will be supplied for a few hours daily for people to charge their batteries. Meanwhile, people buy Inverters in sizes proportional to the thickness of their pockets. The poorer ones go for Chinese-made emergency lamps. The poorest go for candles and pinewood. After all, no Naga wants to stay in the dark because we have proclaimed ourselves to have come From Darkness To Light (Ephesians 5:8).

Zero Bulb Ideas is a series featuring whacky ideas of a noodle-headed nincompoop.