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The Monexus
Vol. I · No. 169
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Saturday Ed.
Updated 05:15 UTC
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← The MonexusOpinion

The Political Theater That Keeps Delhi's Power Grid in the Dark

Nearly half of Delhi's power transformers have exceeded their operational lifespan, but the capital's political class remains transfixed by a manufactured scandal — a revealing inversion of priorities that speaks to a broader dysfunction in how India governs its cities.

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This piece is published under the Opinion desk. Monexus covered Delhi's transformer aging as an infrastructure management story; the wire services gave substantially more column space to the political video dispute. This analysis attempts to restore that balance by foregrounding the governance failure the audit documents.

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