Move over peacock & tiger, now India needs a national microbe.
Eight candidates have been shortlisted and they sound better than our politicians in marketing themselves for votes ;)
1. Mucor : Mighty Mucor :
Although I look like fluffy cotton, I am not a delicate darling. I can breakdown hard stuff like wood
and cardboard. With waste mountains eclipsing the sun in our cities you just can't do without me. I
am your source of the new fuel 'ethanol' in cars.
2. Rhizobium : Ready Rhizo
Although I live in a rented house – root nodules of leguminous plants, I pay a very substantial rent by
fixing nitrogen, the building blocks of proteins for all the land and the landlord. Won't you vote for
me?
3. Blue Mold : Bold Blue mold
People keep me apart because I cause food spoilage. But I ooze a substance called Penicillin which is
used as an important medicine.
4. Wild yeast : Wild wild yeast
I get under urad dal's skin and secretly make the idli batter rise. People think I am pungent but I give
plenty of B vitamins. I am the wild yeast. Vote for the mysterious me!!
5. Bateriophage T4 : Captain Phago
We may be 100 times smaller than a bacterium but we give the power to the Ganga. We are the
magicians with a wand that inject toxins into bad bugs and make them vanish to restore rivers to
pristinity. Vote for Captain Phago toli and we will take charge clearly!
6. Spirogyra : Sunny spiro
I am the cheerful green hero which floats easily on freshwater. I love to hog the sunlight to trap
carbon and drive away climate change blues. I am the hero of the 21st century. Don't forget to vote for me.
7. E. Coli : King coli
I am the king of the gut. I grow so fast that I keep all the nasty bugs out. I am not all mass and no
substance - I make a very important vitamin K2 without which you feel weak and tired. So you need
my vote and I need yours.
8. Lactobacillus : Longy lacto
Do you know who makes yummy dahi and paneer, who keeps your gut healthy and drives away
nasty bugs? It's me, it's me!! So vote for me.
So what are you waiting for! Cast your votes here :)
(Wonder who got this interesting idea?)
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