Senior citizens in parts of South Bombay were hit hard by the power failure, which caused many of them to panic as they couldn’t take their medicines. At Shapoor Baugh in Grant Road (East), many depend on instruments running on electricity to take their medication, and missed dosages because of a six-and-a-half-hour power cut.

Piroj Wadia, a resident of Shapoor Baugh in Grant Road (East), suffers from asthma and has been using a nebuliser for the past eight years to get five doses of medication a day. (The picture is blurred on request) Pic/Emmanual Karbhari