Get ready: To celebrate November 14 with this special issue on INVENTIONS. We bring you a taste of the pathbreaking discoveries that have taken our civilisation forward. Maybe you too will invent something one day that mankind will remember you for. It’s not impossible. After all, as Thomas Alva Edison once remarked, “Genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration”!

My Dream Machine

The things we take for granted nowadays — electricity, planes, trains, the Internet, and a host of other stuff — were all invented by some brilliant person or the other. We asked you what YOU would like to invent. And we were flooded with your poems and drawings on some really cool invention ideas. From the serious to the funny, from the useful to the wacky, your contributions had them all. Congratulations to all of you! And, by the way, the best entries in each category win prizes. Enjoy!