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Anand Vardhan

Electrocution kills 12,500 a year. But India’s power safety problem still finds little media space

With other events making their way to headlines, the mounting cases of electrocution fatalities in India have largely been pushed to the everyday register of random death notes. 

It seems that an electric shock killing people in public is too mundane to be seen as anything except someone running out of luck. Far too many unsuspecting Indians fail to win that battle against a loose wire, dangling or lurking somewhere in the street, or a high-power cable or overhead wire getting close enough.

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