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Powerless: Electricity Riots
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Powerless, with the Indian summer settling in, the electricity shortage in Kanpur takes on crisis proportions as riots break out in a literal power struggle, with police cracking down violently on frustrated demonstrators.
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