Freeze the flash

Ever wondered how Benzene got its structure? How was Pencillin discovered? Blackle that and come back to this blog.There is supposedly a difference between Discovery and Invention and the latter signifies original thinking and struggle. People have been awarded Nobels and Abels for path breaking and path making discoveries. Were they a result of a flash of brilliance that was held on? Many times people quote " I stumbled upon this, "it occurred to me that.." to refer to their findings. How many ideas might have crossed their minds prior to these findings, is a calculation not even the brightest of minds can fathom,but certainly, they might have felt miserable to let those flashes die out. Perhaps, a better war plan to dethrone he English had crossed Mangal Pandey's volatile head during the first war of independence and he just let it pass. We would have been 90 years older as an independent state.

Umpteen times, while travelling alone in a bus, or in a queue for paying bills, ideas gather storm in our minds when it is calm, like a lull before the kill. Referring to a coca-cola ad featuring Kalki Koechlin and Imran Khan, this thought would have occurred to most us looking at a cola ad on the hoarding and a suave chick sitting at a seat beside you. This is where ad men bring to life, the mundane aspects of life and add zing to it.The thought of carrying a mobile music player might have occurred to Ilayaraja eons back and thus would have born an idea for an I-Paad( 'I sing' in Tamil).

I am a very bad reverse engineer. May be thats why I topped my BE class ...in reverse. Great ideas and acts have rarely taken off in my case but I have this worm bugging me to reverse engineer every brilliant thought and try guessing the thought process. This can be absolute fun and sometimes pump up enormous confidence in an individual.

I managed to hold onto an idea for this blog and here it is!!! Something's striking?? ..catch it!!!!!!!