You may find this hard to believe. We often joke about safety issues in India.

Just look at these photos, taken early morning near our old house.

What do you think they are of?

Picture one

Picture two

Picture three

Picture one is of a lamp post in Mysore. See the man walking by. The card/poster thing attached to the post is at about his head height.

Picture two is a close up of the same post. Look at the two photos, the white cable shows that it’s above the card/poster. It’s difficult to tell but just above and to the right of the white cable are two bits of wire. Now look at picture three.

Picture three, this is of a different lamp post and much lower down, inside the box thing are two red cables.

Any idea what all these cables are for?

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In a morning on my way to yoga a guy drives up on his two wheeler and disconnects the two wires that you see in pictures one and two.

There’s usually a spark.

They’re the mains supply the street lights.

Yes, you’ve got it!

The way to switch on and off the street lights at dusk and dawn are two wires hanging from one of the lamp posts.

The first is way above head height but easily reachable when sitting on a bike, the other is reachable from just walking past.

Now that’s what I call unbelievably dangerous.

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I drafted this first posting in 2018 a very significant year, when MAnjula and I got married. Maybe I was especially conscious about caring and risks.

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Plus

My own pets were idiots last night.

Billet-Doux peeing on my bed. Lucie digging up the drive and breaking the balakani (besom type outdoor brush).

I can’t believe it.

Was it a full moon?

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posts like this are most often posted where we share our stories of life in India.

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