The Power Ministry and Power Grid -- squarely responsible for the failure of the grid on two successive days 30^th and 31^st July -- have been very successful in hoodwinking the the media about the cause of such a massive failure.

Part II of the Leo Panitch- Aijaz Ahmad conversation on the new protests against the system in the developed world . The scholars discuss the structural and political constraints faced by the movements, as they grapple as to how to move beyond protests against the status quo and the existing system.