With power outages sending the city back into the dark ages, citizens are feeling the heat, and the discomfort that comes with it. Businesses are seeing clients stay away and factories are finding it hard to meet production quotas. But with no solution on the horizon, Bangaloreans are making the best of a difficult situation. DNA watches as darkness descends on a city supposedly on the cutting edge of technology.

Photos: Anantha Subramanyam K, Nishant Ratnakar, and Selvaprakash L

Paint by numbers
A group of artists in Mangalore apply their make-up by the light of lamps. The show, as they say, must go on.