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project. Manu didn’t even try
cajoling her. He had to think about their shared future. So then,
it was all over. He looked at his weary friends. Samar was still
game, but the others he couldn’t count upon. He was in for some
embarrassment, he realized, unless he could find a face-saver.
Rachna Ma’am had stopped asking him about his project’s status
completely. “Say, should we make a boat? We have a motor, and Raj
will bring a tub, and…”
    “Who said I will?”
snapped Raj. Manu’s aura had worn thin, if he tried using it any
more, it would tear.
    “All right, forget
it. Go home if you want to.” Nobody moved, so there was just a
little bit of loyalty and team spirit left. Manu searched
desperately for inspiration. He had half a sheet of thermocol, a
motor, a fresh battery, wires and a switch, and four wheels too.
What could he make with them? He walked up and down the class. He
picked up one little piece of wire and started chewing on it. He
walked out of the class, and when he came back the others hadn’t
moved from their places.
    ***

7. The Big
Flash
    Manu stood at
the door and turned on the fans, raising howls of protest from his
team. Then he turned on all the lights, and said “ding-dong, wake
up, wake up”. They became children again and laughed. Then he
noticed the middle switch. It had been there since before Manu came
to Sunrays but he had never paid any attention to it. He thrust the
little piece of wire he had been chewing into the positive and
negative terminals of the socket, stepped back and turned on the
switch. Bam! A long tongue of fire leapt out of the socket and
nearly struck Manu’s outstretched arm. He froze in fear. He knew he
had done something wrong and dangerous, and he had done it in front
of witnesses. Maybe his parents would be called to meet the
principal, his good reputation would be in tatters.
    But his teammates
were still laughing. They thought it was a good trick. Well, the
trick certainly did him some good. His mind all shaken up, Manu
remembered good old Newton’s ‘spectrum’. The simple colour disk
which, when rotated at speed, turns white. That was a first-rate
science principle, and an easy one to demonstrate with a motor.
    He set to work
immediately. While Neha and Samar made a VIBGYOR disk each, he cut
a neat square out of the remaining thermocol, made a seat for the
motor, and two rectangular slots for the battery and the switch.
The wires ran under the base and so were hidden from view. It was a
neat little thing. Once the disks were ready, they fixed one of
them on the motor, turned on the switch, and presto, the seven
coloured arcs became a clean white circle!
    “It works! it
works!” all of them cheered. They were not going to be the butt of
the class’ jokes now. Manu was back to being his heroic self and
issued some more instructions. “Vikram, you keep the project safe
till tomorrow. Neha, please make a chart explaining the scientific
principle, and I am going home now, see you tomorrow.”
    “Who will
demonstrate the project?” Raj asked. “Why, me, of course,” Manu
said walking out with his bag. Then he turned around and added:
“Actually, we should do it by turns, Neha and I will start together
in the morning, and then you can take over in twos”. He was really
upbeat, for this time he didn’t even consult Neha about her
role.
    So the exhibition
came and went. The water cycle model won a prize and Ginny gloated,
but Manu didn’t lose face, and he proudly told everyone that his
was the only working model at the exhibition. He also thought the
two weeks were well spent because now Neha and he were good
friends. He could always walk up and talk to her. He remained the
alpha boy of the class.
    But nobody noticed
the burnt socket and it was never fixed.
    ***

8. A Call To
Play
    By the time
January bowed out even the most careless students were writing 1989
at the top of their classwork pages. It is always so difficult to
break the date habit