POSCOO

POSCOO…

The word seems strange at the first sight. It’s not a panchtantra tale, new hardware device, celestial body, flora or fauna species, Chinese dish, newly invented chemical compound etc etc...

Okay! Guys and girls, I give you five seconds to guess 1.2.3.4.5, time up! I knew you won’t be able to crack the game. The word echoes in my brain almost every day. So I am tempted to share it with you.

So fasten up your seat belts and brace yourself   as you are going to experience the ride! So if you have in you to go beyond the horizon, dear, you are welcome to my world. POSCOO!, I am sure none of you have either read or heard this before. Well! It is the gargantuan imagination of a GH*(refer to the end) .

One day I and my friend (both GHs) were walking on one of the university lanes on a scorching day. She said,”What numbers can’t measure is the agony of GHs after joining the college”.It seems like endless journey to walk on foot from hostel to university gate”. Suddenly my nerves got impulse and I shouted, ”POSCOO”..She uttered “What?”

POSCOO is an abbreviation for POCKET SCOOTER. I have imagined it as a plastic box of 20X 20X20  cm3 and it would be based on foldable z-series CAMLESS engine(yet to be invented). Toroidal   CVT , centrifugal clutches will be its phenomenal components. POSCOO is going to  be much much advanced to notchback and hatchback sedans as it will run on solar power and have high charge density micro batteries to store energy to work in the absence of sunlight or it might be pneumatic(use compressed air as working fluid) or  might be based on fuel cell technology. Electronically assisted hydraulic power brakes would stop my POSCOO on a single push. Just a push of a button will convert a box into a scooter.

Girls’ hostels are closed before dusk. Every evening the melodious rhymes of the security guards:”Andar chalo! Jaldi karo! Time ho gya” simply leave us mesmerised...After college there is hardly an hour and a half left to manage outdoor affairs; that too on foot.

How astonishing it would have been if I had the POSCOO! Just Imagine.

I would have done everything like exploring every corner of the city, doing dare devil stunts, pasting tattoos on my POSCOO, getting the assignment xeroxed just before submission and ofcourse enjoying “gediyaan” around the gol market .I won’t agree, in this regard, to often quoted declaration of William James “The very fact that you have a dream or desire means you have corresponding capacity to realise it”. With little hope and much despair, my pen aches to write that no POSCOO is going to appear in the coming years. Still it is going to be a distant dream for me to marvel at the night panorama of university buildings. Why to magnify the pang and distress of GHs by thrashing out the term further. POSCOO is beyond our patience, sense and purse.

My parents say, ”Beta, be contented ”.But what to do? Mom gives me a cost effective solution. She says,”Get up early and go to play in university grounds. Why don’t you carry out the activities in the morning that guys do in the evening? Make your alliance in the hostel to have discussions, watch T.V., play indoor games, call each other by supernatural names, share things etc”. But something in me does not agree to her.

Come on, let’s fold hands and pray to the almighty for good fortune of GHs. I just imagine myself on POSCOO. Wow! How electrifying it feels. I wish my great great grand daughters enjoy the POSCOO ride.

FINGERS CROSSED!!

*GH A girl who resides in Hostel.