Most would say it all started when aangan was born. yet it is just one way of looking at it. It could also be said that it all began when Big gods started proliferating in a manner that simply drove all the small gods to the polar regions for plain lack of space. It didnot help that the difficulty of reaching the polar region through the coldness killed a lot of young small gods and only the oldest ones survived. On the part of the old small gods, it has to be said that they didnot really work together, but were running so shit scared for their lives, that they forgot to help the young ones make the journey.
aangan woke up with a start. There he was the second child about to be born, feeling the sudden muscles contracting and turning him, amniotic sac breaking draining out the amniotic fluid. His mom was tossing with the expected pain of the muscular thrusts. Ok to cut the long story short, aangan was born. The mid-wife/nurse/doctor/whoever it was held him up and said “Congrats payyan poranthurukkaan”. After all the exhaustion his mom raised a confused eyebrow, frowned, sighed and went into a dreamless sleep.

Well this might be the starting lines of a novel…..how does it sound??

The Vagratheans were a queer group of people. They had a physical structure that looked like humans, yet their life cycles and habits were non-human. For example they exhibited that quality of changing sex according to the situation. just like the frogs. Infact as they are born they have the sex organs of both the gender…..

Oh my virgin attempt at fiction..

Pranav was confused, perplexed, confounded and angry…as if someone had cast the langlock on Malfoy while he was about to curse potter. How much he had wanted this…….and planned for this how long has the wait been.What right does some old loony professor of his (though he was his mentor) have to tell him not to do it??? After all it was his hard work…….for the most part of the time……if anything the old goner had given nothing but some references and names during the while he was working his ass offf…….Now this loony bin comes and says don’t publish this…….news….. and he even claims it is for my own sake he is saying this……he must be jealous…….. He had found the first robot/program or whatever you want to name it, that has started off with no pre-recorded instructions, but has managed to collect data from its sensors… and use them to reach a goal…….. It has also exhibited the capability to learn when the goal or the information from the sensors. changes……….
And now this old professsor suddenly says think about how the robot will feel about being a showpiece…………
Hell…….. what’s wrong with him?? this was an achievement beyond the wildest dreams and he says this……..

“I am not a sentimental Idiot. I am a man of the world. ” He said to himself… Hell i will go ahead and call for the press conference and demo….Think of the prestige he would get……He would be the Einstein of this century………He called the press agents and informed to come over for a very important announcement and demo the next morning at 10 am..

12 Noon next day……..
The press conference had gone without a glitch…..yet he felt a bit of disappointment……. It was just sleepiness he told himself………no no…..it was the lack of excitement among the reporters………. There was something odd about their reactions…… they had been happy but did not seem to be surprised…. or anything…..it was almost as if they had been expecting it……but then how could they???? After all nobody even had any idea of what he was working on………… could it have been his prof who told them?? oh no he wouldn’t have and even if he had he would have known from today’s papers……. or somebody would have called him…. And oddly enough their Q & A session had gone weird……… I mean they were not asking so much about the technologies involved than about how he felt and how he went about doing it……….. Hmm…… any way atleast the whole story is over i can go to sleep now he thought and fell asleep too…….. Next morning Pranav wakes up early enough to catch the newspaper and the headline reads.. ” World’s first thinking robot creates another thinking robot – The beginning of a new era???”

The tentative chapter titles……..may have to add more..but for a taste..

1 The insecurity
2 The Orphan
3 The Musthave been girl/manja pathirikhai
4 The scientist-boy
5 The poori girl
6 The Live out time/Dorm-mares
7 The God days
8 The Deja vu’s