72 Hours

Sweden posts a booklet to five million homes. Finland, Norway and France have their own. In March 2025 the European Commission told 450 million people to keep seventy-two hours of food, water and medicine at home.India sends nothing. So here it is.The power goes out at eleven at night in January. The inverter lasts four hours. The building's water pump is electric. So is the lift your father cannot climb without. Your phone is at 23 per cent and the ATM queue starts at six in the morning.This is the manual for the seventy-two hours that decide everything — written for Indian homes, with Indian prices, Indian kitchens and Indian streets. Not an American prepper book with Indian names swapped in.Inside:Water, power, food and fuel — what actually runs out, and in what orderHeat: India's biggest recurring killer, and why the grid is weakest exactly when you need itThe people who run on electricity — dialysis, oxygen, insulin, and what to do before the night it mattersMoney when the rails stop: cash, denominations, and what changes in October 2026Reading a stranger in four seconds — intent, not identityWhen the voice on the phone is not really your sonAn AI that works with no signal, no tower and no dataFire, crowds, curfew and earthquakes — the emergencies you will probably actually getTeaching a seven-year-old and a seventy-year-oldGetting your parents ready from eight thousand kilometres awayEvery safety instruction carries a numbered marker sourced to a named government or agency document — WHO, India's National Disaster Management Authority, the IFRC, the UK Cabinet Office, Sweden's MSB. Where no public authority publishes a number, this book does not invent one; it tells you to ask your own doctor.Know your leverage.