Last week, Bill Gates was all set to leave India in his private jet from the Jodhpur Airport, when trouble struck. The Jodhpur airport was under repairs since mid-April and the authorities ordered that no flight could take off after 4 pm.
While security officials knew that the light from Bill’s aircraft was sufficient for pilots to take-off, the local airbase officials were not prepared to take a chance. So the authorities arranged for more than 200 Kerosene Lanterns to lit up the runway and saved the day for Gates.
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Reader Comments
Thanks for this piece of news. This was something which gave us a hearty laugh. Perhaps someday we will see India running computers on kerosene (kidding)!
Cheers,
FIRE Finance
Written by FIRE Finance on 11.20.08
Next Time Bill Gates will bring his set of lanterns while visiting India. :-)
Regards
Tech Thunder
Written by Tech Thunder on 11.20.08
The act would have been justifiable if he was the chairman of MS.
Written by Lasvak on 11.20.08
Bill gates is very intelligent and smart person. He always thinking of some innovative things and always finding opportunity in difficulties. I think what he would do is notedown this expierence in his laptop and would make use of lattern technology in computing or somewhere else.
though it sounds rubbish but smart people are called stupid unless they become successfull.
Written by krunal on 11.21.08
Some new project inspiration perhaps? How about MS Lantern?
Written by Rajesh Kumar on 11.21.08
haha, back to the basic eh?
Written by Deepak on 11.24.08
Laloo’s lantern to the rescue. Guess Bill should write a thank you note( no appointment letter this time) to Laloo:)
Written by Vinayak on 11.24.08