The Pune Trip

There are lots of things to take out from the trip, here I'll try to describe few moments moving around our Arshad Bhai. I came to know more about him, during our extended honeymoon period with our profs  :-) and after that during some of our group outings. I'll try to picture some of the incidents (obviously this can never be as amusing as in live).

We were on the train (Udyan Express), The train was at its full speed and we saw quite often, other vehicles overtaking our train :-). We had some awesome Pav-Bhaji at Solapur station. After having lots of unhygienic food at various stations, we were still hungry and we planned to order something from pantry. 

Arshad Bhai took the lead and asked a person who was moving by, "Order Lethe Kya". That person stayed calm and stood still for some time, like he was hit by some lightening, then comes his first reaction, Inspector......... Senior Inspector...... (It was like Bond....... James Bond). He continued.... In my 14 years of service no one has insulted me like this, do I look like a waiter ? He looked at the people around him with sympathetic expressions showing his neatly tucked shirt, leather belt, polished shoes and he asked again, do I look like a waiter ? We also showed some sympathy and tried to convey no u r looking great. once he left we all broke out laughing. This incident explains how a great sense of achievement (which generally take years) can be ruined in a single moment. This can only be done by people like Arshad. 

In between the journey we saw lots of Sun flower plants. Arshad Bhai (A great thinker n observer) said can u see these plants they move towards the sun for absorbing the maximum sun light, our solar cells should also be designed like that. We were all impressed, but he was not finished yet, he said why don't we put the solar cells on top of these plants itself........... Thats why I say one shouldn't think too much.

So he was in full flow, we were all trying to get some wisdom from him. He continued...... even in this train, energy is not conserved properly, we were all curious, how ? 
Arshad : see we can put a wind power generator fan on top of train, the energy generated by it can be used to drive the train. Train in high speed will again generate the wind energy for driving it faster and it'll go on, energy problem solved. We all felt so priviliged to be with such a great visionary, by this time we were all in the same mode of thinking as Arshad, so some intelligent questions were obvious. one of us asked - but in that case how will we stop the train ?