It was my summer school holiday. I was lazily reading comic books in the corridor. My grandfather called me to the balcony and asked me to sit next to him. He took out a magnifying glass, fixed its position, and started converging the sun rays on the paper until it started to burn.
It was one of the best science experiments I’d seen as a little kid. Soon he handed me the glass, “Now you try it, Videsh.” I took the glass and started slowly moving it all over the paper, but nothing happened.
“No dear, you have to focus the rays of the sun into a beam at the right angle, hold the glass at one point and keep patience till the beam becomes so strong that it erupts into a small flame, and soon the flame will turn into a fire,” he said.
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