Swine Flu origins (and insti ofcourse)

Disclaimer: I am practising for Shaastra Scifi writing, and I do not intend to offend anyone. The article is purely fictional.

Ever wondered how this swine flu started? Read on to know more and comment if you are surprised.

It all started in the April of 2006. There was a guy studying in IIT Madras, who was from Pune. (Duh..thats not me..I wasnt into IIT at that time.) He had an ambition. He wanted to be the leader of SoE at Shaastra. He got together a team of dedicated students to work on his project. Little did they know what the effects of their success would be in the following years.

This person had a dream. The preceding SoE's had been Peper bridge, Basacule Bridge, Tensegrity tower, etc. There was nothing moving in them. Now this new team had only three words: "Want to Fly". And they got down to business. They searched the internet for designs to help them fly. All work was done in top secret lest someone flew before they did.

However, the team did not notice that they were being watched. Just a few months before, pigs were driven out of IIT Madras and now they wanted revenge. Some pigs, disguised as humans, joined the team. And they learnt all the secrets of flying. They wanted to fly, away from the dirt of the ground, and demonstrate to the real humans (who were trying to make automatic dirt cleaning machines), who was superior.

Now, one would ask, the SoE was demonstrated in Shaastra 2006, then why did the pigs learn to fly so late? Well, firstly, the first few attempts at flying went wrong. The flying machine crashed, and pigs did not want that to happen to themselves. They waited for a couple of more years, till the flying was perfected. Till then, they were a part of the team and no one knew. Then they flew.

That was a year ago. But then people did not notice that pig flew. They had to make it popular. Then came the VISA advertisement of Matt Harding. It was a common stupidity to dance, but the "Viral video" funda made it popular. Now the pigs learnt something more. They had to make it viral. They learnt how to use computers and integrate that with the flying machine.

Due to a lot of efforts from the PR boys of Shaastra, there were articles in the papers about the IIT students flying stuff. During one of the demos, the pig disguised as a student had messed up his polyjuice potion (that he used to source from one of the Gurunath juice wizards) and his real self showed up. The Deccan Chronicle journalist (who had strong contacts in IIT and was a Tiffanys regular) got to know of this and the Headline next day was:

"A Swine Flu" (you know the level of english spellings of DC journalists).