Taarey zameen par

Wow! finally a master piece that does justice in highlighting children's rights to the masses. A right to express themselves in their own unique way, a right to breathe the air around them in complete innocence, a right to develop into a unique individual with their own strengths and weaknesses. A fact iterated in the movie that I have been talking to Yogita for sometime now: "Forcing children to bear the burden of one's ambitions is even worst than child labor". The worst part is that we do not even realize this.

Anyways, we hope that we would not spend umpteen number of cycles explaning to parents on - why a child needs to have his/her own tool kit, why he/she should be allowed to play around with the science products and not be a user like others, why he/she should be allowed to fail once in a while when he/she makes these products. Obviously, it's not rocket science when Kahaan (a participant of our CP workshop) uses sharpeners as the base for the coils or if Sushant (another participant of our CP workshop) asks how can a man fly using magnetic levitation - products have that unique ability of giving expression to the million thoughts that a child gets in his/her mind.

Our sincere thanks to taarey zameen par for giving us a chance in this maddening competitive world of percentages.

Magnetic Torch!

I remember playing around with a rechargeable torch that David Jung (a good friend at Real Networks, US) had showed to me - i really liked the idea that the torch was using no batteries at all and thought we should mass produce something like that.

During the magneto science workshop at our Central Delhi center, I wondered how can we expose to the real life examples of technology to our participants and then i discovered this torch at Mr. Arvind Gupta's toys from trash list - the product is amazing, very easy to make and can be easily professionalized. For all the science enthusiasts, check the below video and make your own: