I understand and I am sympathetic to your situation. Although now I live in the US, but growing up in India, I am no stranger to power cuts. In my childhood, they where called load shedding. Our power grid was buckling back in those days by overuse and there were scheduled and unscheduled power cuts.

Load shedding are scheduled power outages designed to prevent overloading the grid

I did a lot of my school homework under kerosine lamp like this :)

We called them Hurricane Lantern or lamp or just Hurricane in short, I think you can guess why.