Payalat Ch 1

Chapter 1

In the year 1845 East Indians arrive in Trinidad on the boat called the Fath Al Razack. Bringing their culture, food, and religion to the Caribbean island. Fast track to the early 21^st century, where engineering student at the University of the West Indies Sunil Payal is fascinated with the Vimanas(flying machines) of Hindu mythology. So when he finds an old Sanskrit text at his grandmothers house in Chaguanas, Sunil decides to follow the instructions found inside the book and build his own Vimana. Using spare car parts from his father's auto repair shop, and assisted by his school mate James Corneal. Sunil sets out to work on his amazing project.

Every time Sunil and James went to work on the ancient vehicle, they noticed a black Mercedes Benz, heavily tinted passing by. Six months later the Vimana was finished and Sunil was ready to test drive it. Powered by a car battery the young engineer steps into the Vimana, talking to James via a two-way radio he ask “James are you ready for lift off?”

Replying “yes pilot I'm ready!” as James tie a large rope onto the Vimana's tale and the next end onto a steel post.

Revving up the engine on the strange machine the size of a car, it slowly starts to elevate from the ground. Shouting James says “it works, it actually works!”

He then tells Sunil “you can bring it down now!”

But while Sunil attempts to bring the Vimana down, it gains more propulsion shooting the vehicle upwards and bursting the rope that was anchoring it to the ground. Parked opposite Sunil's house was a black Mercedes Benz and the man inside says “they actually got that Vimana to work!”

Story and art by Adam Reynold.