No, this is not what you are probably thinking.... It's about a feature of many 3rd world countries - Nepal, for instance, a lack of power.
Basically, Nepal doesn't have the generating capacity to supply the demand. So, at various times of the day, the lights, essentially go out.
Last night, for instance, I was lying awake shortly after midnight and what lights I could see outside just went out. An interesting aside can be seen when you fly into KTM at night and drive into the city. A city of 1.7 million people is remarkably dark. Few streetlights .. that dark shape we passed was a cow on the edge of the road.
It's called load shedding. Some businesses have generators but are unable to buy enough to meet that need either.
Nighttime in KTM .. A time for sleeping (what I'm telling myself right now).
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