Jagdish Chandra Bose and His Companion; Source: Knappily

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Lush and green, bushy and straight, full of flowers and thrones. Yes, you guessed it right. We are talking about those beloved plants which stand proudly as the centre of attraction in gardens and homes. Plants too have feelings. They too photosympathise when the other plants are sad. Well, this is not a joke. Because everything seems a joke until science takes up the stage and sings out the evidence.

One such evidence came up to the surface when an Indian took it upon him to show the ‘unsaid feelings’ of a plant.

> Born on 30 November 1858, Jagdish Chandra Bose was a man tailor-made for science. His finest invention of an awe-inspiring device called the crescograph would be the centre of today’s story.

Plants have a definite cycle. Of course, it’s not similar to that of a human. They are like a newborn baby when in a seed form. As they grow up to be naughty little saplings, they start observing their surroundings. When they finally reach the period of adulthood and become a plant, they start reproducing and become ‘pla-rents’.

Crescograph, a new member of the plant family that vocalized their feelings through light and sound show. The series of gears and smoked glass plates are like the wizard’s wand which records the movement of the plant’s tip under a micro-magnetic scale of 1/10000. Isn’t it amazing!!

Wait for the entire story till you widen your eyes and open your mouth with an expression of awe and surprise. The magical plate is marked according to the movement of the plant and thereafter, it catches the reflection of the plant. The plant goes for swimming in a pool full of bromide. Suddenly, the heart of the plant starts beating and it is reflected in the form of a light spot on the smoked plate.

Shivji drank the poison and did not die. This did not happen in the case of these ‘delicate-green-darlings’. As soon as they drank the poison, the light spot became unsteady which finally proved that plants of course didn’t like the taste of poison and preferred plain water.

Change in the weather makes us sneeze. An increase in temperature makes us turn on our air conditioners. An increase in pollution gives us a chance to showcase our stylish face masks. Have you ever thought about these plants as to how do they survive in such tough conditions? No, they don’t have blankets and umbrellas. Neither do they have arms to carry them. They have their own adaptative mechanism which makes them the stronger ones than humans.

> Bose also showed that the various responses by the plants to the stimulus are electrical in nature and not chemical.

There are innumerable scientists who have shown many awe-inspiring talents. Bose had something extraordinary in him which made the green buddies his sole subjects of an experiment.

A rich magistrate's son made to sit in a village school, grew up listening about nature - years later, he tied a creature, motionless, speechless to his table and pinched it and out came the evidence of life in plants - Jagdish Chandra Bose brought to attention a life ignored.