There were still, in 1968, a few people who were afraid of the nuclear power plant. This means, simply, that operators in nuclear power plants need not be eminent physicists or mathematicians. They had some nuclear power, introduced a century or so ago by traders from Marduk, one of the really civilized planets.
This interactive Google map shows the path of the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Aug 21. The northern and southern path limits are blue and the central line is red. You MUST be somewhere within the central path (between the blue lines) to see the total phase of the eclipse. The eclipse is longest on the central line (red).
Mapping partial solar eclipse in India. India might not be getting the total solar eclipse on Wednesday, but people in the Northeast and Eastern coastal strip of the sub-continent will be able to get a partial view of the spectacle. However, a partial solar eclipse does not come with lesser risks for those who view it with their naked eyes.