Describe a time when all the lights in your locality went off.

What were the sounds

--> A power cut is a common situation that most of the non-urban regions of
India experience. Although it being common, there are many places where the event
of power cut is unknown. Our locality of Madhavnagar was one of them. The lights
going off was a once in a blue moon situation. Most of the kids below the age of
eight were still unknown to it. Once during mid-August,in the evening,when the
whole country was celebrating its 71st Independence day, our locality experienced a
power cut after more than 8 years.
As soon as the lights went off, there was confusion and haste
everywhere. It was a totally unexpected event. All the children were fascinated on
seeing this thing. Some even got scared of the darkness but were encouraged by
their friends and grandparents. The people of the locality were asking everybody
from the streets, windows and rooftops to check if there was someone whose lights
have not went out. Only a few houses had generators or invertors because they never
expected such a situation in the locatlity. I went outside with my friends to have
a look at this situation which we saw about a decade ago. We rode our bicycles
around the whole locality and found out that everybody had a power cut in their
houses.
The moment of confusion and haste soon changed into a moment of
happiness and nostalgia. The old people formed a circle and sat with the children
and told them about their childhood when a situation of power cut was common in
their town. They told that how they used to sit under a tree and narrated stories
or lit candles or had a bornfire. Slowly, the whole locality was out in the dark
with some of them using the flashlight of their mobile phones and some with an
original flashlight, flickering all the way. After a few moments, there was silence
everywhere. We could clearly hear the hooting the owls which we had learnt about
only in the books and also the chirping of the cricket. We saw the bright twinkling
stars and planets in the sky. The stars stretched in an infinite line and twinkling
as if someone poured diamonds in the sky. The fake light of the bulbs and
chadeliers often suppress the beauty of the natural lights. We often tend to
neglect this beautiful universe by being overexposed to the lights from the bulbs
and the mobiles. The women lit the old dust-worn lamps and it was a completely
different beauty. The experience of sitting in front of the lamp and listening to
the stories from grandparents is longed for even by our parents.
After half an hour the light came on. There was a sudden transition
from rural to urban era. It felt as if all the darkness ebbed out of the body.
Although it was a moment of elation, we still missed that period when we all were
under the light of the lamp. After the lights came on, everybody returned back to
their daily life. The children went back to their rooms, we went to study, the
people returned back to their homes, and the grandparents continued watching the
Prime Minister's speech. Everyone was back to their daily routine. It was a strange
feeling and I felt as if the previous thirty minutes were just a part of a peaceful
dream.
These thirty minutes were one of the most beautiful thirty minutes of
the people in our locality. We saw a completely different world. A world without
electricity, pressure and full of joy. We saw the divine beauty of the sky and
heard the sounds that we had only heard in videos. We heard about the blissful life
of our elders and learnt things. This experience must be experienced by today's
people who neglect nature, social life and elders. Truely these thirty minutes of
life were divine.

*****REVIEW******

Overall, your essay is well written with a good narrative flow. You have done a
great job in describing the situation and the emotions of the people in your
locality during the power cut. I would rate this essay 16 out of 20.

However, there are some grammatical and spelling errors that can be improved. Here
are a few suggestions:

In the first sentence, you can change "most of the non-urban regions of India" to
"many non-urban regions of India."

"Unknown to it" in the second paragraph can be changed to "unfamiliar with it."

"whose lights have not went out" in the second paragraph should be "whose lights
have not gone out."

In the third paragraph, you wrote "had a born-fire," but it should be "had a
bonfire."

In the fourth paragraph, you can change "light of the bulbs" to "glare of the
bulbs."

In the fifth paragraph, "returned back" can be changed to "returned" to avoid

In the last sentence, "experienced" can be replaced with "enjoyed."

Overall, you have done a good job in describing the situation and the emotions
during the power cut. You can consider adding more sensory details to make your
essay more engaging. For example, you can describe the smell of the burning candles
or the feel of the cool night breeze. Adding more details can make your essay more
vivid and enjoyable to read.