The second atttempt..

CHAPTER 1

It was a Sunday morning Mr. Venkat was wide awake now and was waiting for his housemaid to give his morning tea and was taking a look at the newspaper bundle kept in front of him. It was his collection of the month, he usually keeps the science discoverer section of each day until the last weekend and then store them in his collection which is actually very big now…he was starting to think about his childhood and when his collection started…..but suddenly his maid entered and gave him his regular lemon tea with the newspaper. He took the newspaper first and started to look at the headlines apart from the regular political drama, in a corner there was news about the recent successful launch of the ISRO’S self developed PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle).He looked at the wall clock and it was pointing at 8, he went to freshen up and after his daily rounds of prayers he started dressing up as he was wearing the traditional lungi. He donned the regular white shirt and black coat and went on to look in the mirror. Dr. Venkat though 36 years old didn’t looked more than 25. He had a very good physique and his face always maintained a smile, despite of the deepest troubles he would keep smiling, despite of the few white hairs he still looked like a new college professor. He was still unmarried despite of his mothers efforts he was able to maintain his single status. He went in his drawing room and then only the clock struck 9. He forwarded toward his study and picked up some of the papers he has prepared for today’s class of biomechanical concepts of robotics.When he entered the vast campus of advanced biotech studies he remembered the time he first came there not as a professor but as a student. He advanced towards the lecture room as today was a weekend there were not too many people outside the building but after three months of giving lectures on different topics of bioengineering he knew that there would be a huge crowd waiting for him inside the hall and when he entered the hall there were around hundred students waiting for him, some still searching for seats, his assistant professor getting his equipments ready. He entered the class and all fell silent. He first asked his assistant professor to take seat and started his day’s lesson. “The biomechanical concept of robotics is the newly formed subclass of robotics “, he said and showed them the familiar diagram of the human D.N.A and said,” How many of you think that developing exact copy of this D.N.A is possible???....” he stopped for their minds to focus on the question and then the hands were raised. All the students agreed on the fact that every D.N.A could be replicated by the famous procedure of cloning, by which exact copy of any D.N.A. can be produced. Mr. Venkat saw all the hands raised and changed his question slightly and said” without cloning….” All hands went down instantly and they all were staring towards the professor as if he had asked to all of them to count their brain cells… but the professor was still looking for an answer from the crowd. Nobody knew the answer and professor firstly laughed and then coming back to the topic he realized that everybody except him was in grave silent even his assistant professor who was himself astonished. The professor looked at everyone and then called a boy from the front row he asked him if he knew the answer he simply replied “no sir”, then sending the boy back he said” then what is reproduction???” everyone in the hall was dumbstruck and then the professor started…..