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floating bicycle !

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I just read this piece of information at : http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=7372&section_id=3 (article also pasted below )and its fascinating....... necessity is definitely the mother of invention and this is just another proof of something I believe in so strongly - there is so much of knowledge around, and the perspective of people who have actually been in the problem can make so much of a difference. Second, there is a strong need for India to support grassroot innovations like this and take ideas like this forward with credit - both monetory and othrewise to briiliant people like Saidullah. ----------------------------------------- Necessity they say, is the mother of invention. When floods ravaged Mohammad Saidullah's village, he found a new way to survive. "Nadi ke kinare mera ghar tha. Aus usine mere ghar ko kat diya. (My house was near a river and it was destroyed by the river)," Saidullah says. Saidullah designed a bicycle that can not only travel on l
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Okay, some things have got to be filed ! and this is *definitely* one of them. (the cartoon strip, i mean) Life's been a roller coaster for the last couple of months. More on the high side :) We'll i've got a little more spiritual, my heart filled with a little more love. Been a little disorganized too. Work or no work, by some weird quirk of circumstances i somehow manage to stay awake till 3:00 am !!!! damn ! its 2:00 am here now. Why the post today ? Well for one I've just managed to send in entries for two competitions which is like a big load off me. The first is for the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006. Our entry is called "Sparsh- touching lives" :). The second was for MotoFwrd 2006. Somewhere between the entry i got carried away with emotions and lost coherence. Of course i didnt realize it just then ;) current interets : AJAX ;)