A TALE OF MOSARANNA ALIAS CURD BHATH

Chaya was preparing curd rice for the get together at her papa's place. Incidentally, she makes nice saaru, north indian dishes and a wonderful home maker if you ignore occasional battles across borders. So, this narrative may take different twists, as I try to be as faithful to the events that unfolded. She is preparing rice for the mosaranna. Mobile disturbs. the call is from ananya. chayatte, you make the most wonderful mosranna. only if you allow the oggarane items to remain crisp how good it would be. so, chaya prepares oggarane (really, special one: uddina bele, sasve, godambi fried to rose brown with karibevu leaves) and packs it separately in a box. next caller is keshu, he has a grouse! chayatte, you are partial to girls because you dont have one and cheat the boys of godambi in oggarne, so to play fair, please count them and distribute equally amongst boys n gals! ok. this wish can be fulfilled as the oggarne is kept aside. Now the mixing is taking place with dalimbe and other ingredients, phone rings for the third time its varshini the bean pole! chayatte, if only if your mosaranna sticks to its very basics  and lots and lots of curds with no kaat kasa leaves in between how wonderful it would be. chayatte is in obliging mood. so she stores the kaat kasaa, ie, kottambri leaves and other things separately in one more box. the fourth call was near about direct. its from her son paawan. amma, don't you make anything other than mosranna as a special, something say like a pizza or a pasta or a...

cruel are the ways of the world, which while enjoying a lovingly made mosranna still grumbles with it how better it could have been and so on..

Parents: Should they try to be their kids' friends?

With so much input coming from all kinds of specialists and especially from the western world (I have nothing against them personally) the current tendency of parents in Indian cities trying to be their kids' friends is setting an alarming behavioural pattern in the kids. Kids always were smart now more so because of the exposure to  all media. While trying to be friends, parents forget that they are parents first, they have a job (a thankless one at that) and any slack on their part would make the job of developing their kids into responsible citizens a muddled one. I am no academic in kids psychiatry, but you would accept my view that when u are trying to teach some value, firmness is essential. Consistency in imparting is a foregone assumption. Above all, since the kids see with their ears and hear with their eyes, practising of  what is taught is also of paramount importance if it is to be inculcated without failure. Citing my own example, as well from those around me in all spheres of life, I have seen a disturbing trend. Children are becoming more self-centered, loud mouthed, mean minded and devil-incarnates, when parents are taking their role of parenting casually. The usual excuse of what can I do, if that is the fate, unfortunately will work in reverse here because of the easy nature. A non-conforming act/talk/behaviour should be dealt decisively and firmly. It has no place in our society, if we want what we have lost. Other wise, in the coming decades, we can see the decadence of western society, seething into our very own veins, and killing us morally completely. We depended on foreign investments, for our industries and economy but we did have a wonderful culture of our own, which was vibrant having stood the test of time. Alas, now it looks like we are going to succumb to that western influence and are heading towards a path of no return if there is no correction immediately. Parents, please look back on what you cherish most and what is the best you have learnt from them and try to impart that to your kids so that they may also feel empowered to face the world with sound values. This whole article needs a bit of re-look and I would definitely welcome a debate on the points raised and methods to achieve.

A Blood Donation Camp Hosted at Gunata Vihar

It was proposed to have a blood donation camp On 8th Nov 2011 at our residential quarters, gunata vihar. Nimhans blood bank had been approached to collect the blood and sanjaynagar lions club would assist with the conduct of the camp along with us volunteering residents. The camp preparation had been done previous day itself with all furniture, wastebaskets chairs etc in place. On 8th at 9.15am the team from Nimhans came with all the donor beds, blood extraction kits, and donor refreshments. We added large sized banans for replenishing the sugar and salts in the body of donors. Camp started in right earnest at 1030am with our Controller coming with his family to donate blood. But only his daughter could donate blood as he was deferred for high blood pressure. We were in for a surprise when eight ladies came to donate blood all of them donating for the first time. Hats Off to you all ladies may you donate many many times more in your life!!! Also, there were a unique couple, col SK Mishra and his wife leena Mishra who donated blood creating a record in the campus. The volunteers team of sanjaynagar ably lead by Shri Kurien matched the vigor and smile of the RWA team comprising Saravanan and his friends. I had a whale of a time interacting with first time donors, there were 31 of them to make sure, they do indeed come back to donate many times in future. The camp was a roaring success with 68 units collected from the camp. Here once more to all those 68 donors, a hearty congrats and thank you for saving lives by donating blood and thanx to all those volunteers who made the event a memorable one.You may watch the photos of the camp by clicking on the links below.
Voluntary Blood Donation & CARDIAC Screening Camp
Blood donation camp photos.https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1888235504167.74563.1789843046&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2222562239617.2098315.1114550859&type=3

An obituary to two people from very different parts of the world

Its with a very sad heart that I noted that Shri Mattur Krishnamurthy that wonderful half of the gamaka duo of keshava-krishnamurthy passing away at bengaluru on vijayadashami day 06 Oct 2011. the man who promoted and propagated the gamaka art form through his renditions of the bharata and ramayana ably assisted by the resonant voice of kesavamurthy. Many will not have interacted with this simple human being had single handedly bought about the establishing of bharatiya vidya bhavan branch in london and stayed there as its director for close to three decades(not sure). True gandhian that he was, he wore that wonderful smile like that of happy kids on his face and his white attire and the vidhuti and kumkum on the forehead completed the dress. I had the good fortune of meeting him many times during the visit to bharatiya vidya bhavan functions in bangalore. He was the constant along with ramanujan at the khincha hall on most functions there. Ever patient with his audience and always expressing thoughts in clear, precise and well modulated soft tones we have lost a gandhian in this era of instant attention seekers and self styled experts. May he rest in peace. You are leaving behind a large fan following who admired and tried to bring at least some simplicity into their lives.


Sadly, at another part of the world, we have lost a genius Shri Steve Jobs who gave apple and mac computers, the animated movies through pixar and not to forget the ipods, iphones, ipads and U name a gadget which had that I must have it feel he would have had a hand in its coming to the earth. May his soul rest in peace. Though he was a college drop out by choice, he made the life of college students so bearable through his gadgets. Each segment of human beings were touched by at least one of his gadgets. Such was the vision and design capability of this great engineer. 

pratham-the ngo that promotes reading in kids.

Set up in 2004 to promote reading activity among kids, Pratham has grown hugely in last few years. Please copy paste the rest of the blog to promote it amongst friends. thanx

Activity: Pratham Books was set up in 2004, as part of the Read India movement, a nation- wide campaign to promote reading among children. Pratham Books is a not-for-profit organization that publishes quality books for children in multiple Indian languages. Our mission is to see "a book in every child's hand" and democratize the joy of reading.

In the last 6 years we have published over 200 titles in upto 11 languages and have spread the joy of reading to over 12 million children!
Details: Read about our why we are using Creative Commons here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/24780
Support: reading, literacy, education, kidlit, children's literature, publishing
Note: We have put a lot of our content under the Creative Commons framework and we have begun to see success with this. Which means that we make our stories and illustrations available under an open license model and the larger community can then repurpose our content to create something completely new and thus contribute to the cause of a book in every child's hand. Our books have been adapted by our community into a range of  new creations from audio and Braille books for the print-impaired, to iPad and iPhone applications - all to reach every child in India.

We are hoping that many more people can come forward and help translate/remix/re-purpose/distribute our Creative Commons licensed content.
This post is a part of BlogAdda's Bloggers Social Responsibility (BSR) initiative. I am exercising my BSR. You can too with three simple steps. Visit http://www.blogadda.com/bsr/  and support the NGO's.

Giving in India

This is a different kind of blog post. I am posting this for the twestival which is on for the benefit of NGOs. The money generated will be donated to a charity which one chooses. So, friends if you feel strongly that you can do something, please be that and do.

        Much has been written about the giving in print and bandied about in the e-media. But, considering the close to 120crore population of our country, it is never enough and never sufficient. the least each of who can think, and feel for the under previleged, is to do something that is practical and do able than preach about the same. Its like this, by writing this blog, i will be spending my 10 minutes, the thoughts go around the people, who dont have shelters, who dont have a square meal a day, can't afford schools, but will benefit from the large hearted efforts of common people like u and me by those ngos which are nurturing them. If you can't donate money, no issue. Please donate ur time, talent and any other thing which you feel, will make life better for those, who dont have those.

I would like the amount generated from this blog be donated to India Literacy Project.

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Shri Nelyadi govinda Bhat had an adventurous trip of around 135 km in his recumbent bike recently. the  link will lead to that post.


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