Orange Lamp | Marathi |
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 30/01/2015

We are going to make a very beautiful lamp from an orange. Yes, an orange! You will need an orange, sweet lime, cutter, some wax jelly and a wick. Cut the top of the orange with a knife and discard it. Using a blunt spoon remove the soft fleshy part of the orange. You can eat this tasty part. We just need the flesh of the orange as a container for the lamp. With the help of a stiff straw punch out a series of holes near the rim of the orange shell. These holes will look very pretty once the lamp glows. Then pack the shell with wax jelly – which is transparent and will act like a fuel. Then embed a cotton wick in the jelly and then pack the jelly in the orange to the top. Then stick color beads on the orange rim to decorate it. Finally light the lamp. The wax jelly will burn. At night the orange will glow because its skin is transparent. The glowing orange will look extremely beautiful and pretty. This work was supported by IUCAA and Tata Trust. This film was made by Ashok Rupner TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org