It has been almost four decades since Arvind Gupta’s life-changing encounter at a weekly bazaar in the Piparia Palia village of Madhya Pradesh. He had been dealing with heavy machinery till then — he was making trucks for Telco — but the trinkets displayed on the bazaar floor caught his attention unlike anything else. He bought some matches, a cycle valve tube, and a little of everything he saw. That evening, Gupta created his first-ever ‘Science toy’ — matchstick models. Today, seated in his Chennai apartment, the 63-year-old’s eyes light up with a similar excitement when he extracts a plastic box filled with such toys to show us.

For the child in us

“I have two boxes with about 150 toys that I take with me whenever I visit a school,” he says, demonstrating the ‘levitating pen’ that he designed using a pen, a broken CD, magnets, and a piece of polystyrene....................Read more

Source: The Hindu