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India: Is privatizing power the answer?
This latest power failure, dubbed "Terrible Tuesday" by the Indian press, points to persistent and systemic issues in India’s infamous bureaucracy.
The reason for India's massive blackout problems
Half of India hit by second power grid failure
Map of dams planned for Arunachal Pradesh
Part 4: Adventure alternative
With a fast-growing reputation for some of the world's best whitewater, anti-dam activists say Arunachal Pradesh should look to eco-tourism for income.
Part 3: Cultures in danger
150 dams proposed in Arunachal Pradesh could devastate the state's vibrant indigenous cultures.
Part 2: The threat to the environment
Huge upfront payments make it easy for dam builders and the government to gloss over environmental regulations.
Part 1: How many dams can one state hold?
India's banking on 150 in Arunachal Pradesh to help fill its immense power needs. But the value of the land and cultures that will be lost is impossible to calculate.
Photos: Arunachal Pradesh tribal people
More than 20 indigenous tribes live in India's long-isolated northeastern state. But with a bevy of dams planned, that may not be true much longer.