The Darkness

Everywhere I turned, there was darkness. I could here people calling out to me, yelling...asking me not to go too far off....grandparents praying nobody gets hurt...parents afraid to let go off their children's hands...shadows cursing me in my path to the unending darkness. On the way, I could hear a child crying, calling out to its mother in panic...I could see sudden glows of light...people asking me where i was headed...people askin me where they are headed.....sudden bursts of a mechanical voice instructing and informing....
No...this is not the beginning of a morose, touch-the-heart story...its the Great Chennai blackout of May 12th. Yups..the whole city was beeping dark....all the way from my house to the completely overcrowded, chaotic station..including the station!
It was actually kinda fun...my only regret: I wasn't stuck in an ATM vestibule with some hunk...I was stuck in the Chennai Egmore station listening to a paati shout all galeej at a guy who'd stamped her stretched feet in the dark!