Creativity Quotient [CQ]

India is great and Indians are greatest. Indians would probably score highest on creativity part when it comes to find strange uses of seemingly normal products. Here are few examples.

1) The Indian city of Varanasi is getting through around 600,000 condoms a day, but this is no population control exercise. The weavers of the holy city, home to the world-famous Banarasi saris, have made the contraceptives a vital part of garment production. The weaver rubs the condom on the loom's shuttle, which is softened by the lubricant thus making the process of weaving faster. The lubricant does not leave any stain on the silk thread which might soil the valuable saris.

2) In Kutch region of Gujrat villagers have used condoms as disposable water containers to transport water from one village to other.

3) India's military have covered gun and tank barrels with condoms as protection against dust.

4) Farmers’ wives in Punjab would use the washing machine to churn curd and make lassi.

5) Godrej hair dye is used for buffaloes to enhance their market value, while paints are used on cattle horns for easy identification.

6) Horlicks was used as a health drink to fatten up cattle in Bihar.

7) Iodex is rubbed on animals to relieve their muscular pain after a hard day's work.

Passing Thought: If fate doesn’t make you laugh then you just don’t get the joke.