It's not a light switch that suddenly turns on, but a dim fire that has to be kindled carefully against the wind.
The journey to the Chhota Shigri Glacier, in the Himalayan peaks of northern India, begins thousands of feet below, in New Delhi — a city of twenty-five million people, where smoke from diesel trucks and cow-dung fires dims the sky and where the temperature on a hot summer day can reach a hundred and fifteen degrees.
Just uttering a simple phrase to dim the lights, fire up the projector, wake the Apple TV and get everything ready for evening viewing feels an awful lot like the future.
"You feel cold when you don't have work," said Sohan Singh, a driver, his yellow turban reflected in the fire's dim light.
They all bash Mr Archer for bad schools, poor police and fire services, dim public lighting, messy parks and letting abandoned buildings fall to bits.The city council gives little to Mr Archer without a fight.
The wood has been stripped back to its honey-coloured natural state, the lighting is dim, and a log fire burns in the grate of the front room that seems to double up as an office.
The "special relationship", its fire dimmed by time, has settled into a dysfunctional dynamic characterised by extreme imbalance of power.
This illusion becomes dimmer as the fire dies down, and, finally, when it is dark both outside and within, nothing more is seen.
Lowering the input voltage with a dimmer creates a fire hazard, so dimming must only be done on the output side of the transformer.
They don't really have a sunset here, but the fires seem to dim a bit, and the screaming gets more subdued.
