This Diwali, Ashok Panchal's mechanism will make your diyas rotate under a tropical palm, rather than just float
This Diwali, Ashok Panchal's mechanism will make your diyas rotate under a tropical palm, rather than just float
Imagine shimmering blobs of light serenely rotating clock-wise in a plastic water-filled bowl. There's a strange plastic palm tree that shoots up from the centre of the bowl, turning, making the diyas, connected to its base, turn with it. You search for the electric cord that's moving the tree. There isn't one. Battery-operated, you think. But where's the electric socket? You give up, and Ashok Panchal is ready to let out the secret. "It's simple science."
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The surrealistic anti-clockwise movement of the reflection of the diyas adds to the visual treat. "The bowl is contoured in a way that the shadow seem to be rotating anti-clockwise," says Panchal. He likens his diyas to Sai Baba's. Since Baba could not procure oil, he poured water in the diyas and they miraculously burned all night long. A slight difference here, these simply rotate on water. But this was reason enough for Panchal to name his innovation Sai Aarti. Panchal has applied for a patent.
The diyas are priced at Rs 90.
Available at Jalaram Industries, 241, Bombay Talkies Compound, Shreeram Marg, Malad (W).
Call Panchal on 9892683682 to place an order
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