07-Oct-2009
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Kalapini Komkali is daughter of Indian music guru Pandit Kumar Gandharva. Chaiti is a genre of Indian music, originating in Eastern UP. Chaiti originated as women sang in longing for their beloveds who had gone away for work and not returned as yet, when the season of spring was fading into summer, the Hindu month of Chaitra.
Tags: Chaiti, Kalapini-Komkali, Indian-music, Purvang, lyrics, video
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08-Oct-2009
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I was first fascinated by these flowers at Bithoor, Kanpur. It was offered at Brahm Khoonti shrine. This was the first kachnar bloom that I saw at close quarters, fragrant, and butterfly like…
Tags: tree, flower, flora, gardening, Photo-journal, flowering-tree
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09-Oct-2009
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Indians get Jamun as a summer treat. Rs. 5 or 10 for a cone full of Jamun, spiced with salt, is great! Phalsa is another special fruit that shares the season with Jamun. Also mangoes! It is said, one may eat a tummy full of mangoes and easily digest them if a handful of Jamuns are eaten alongside. Jamun fruit and seed are used as medicine for diabetes.
Tags: tree, flower, flora, gardening, Photo-journal, fruit-tree
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09-Oct-2009
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Travel
Viveik Oberoi with his father Suresh Oberoi and family members visited Sri Radha Raman temple in Vrindavan this summer. Sri Radha Raman temple is among the oldest temples of Vrindavan, established by Gopal Bhatt Goswami (one of the six Goswamis sent by Chaitanya mahaprabhu to revive Vrindavan). It is next to Nidhivan.
Tags: India, Vrindavan, Krishna, Photo-journal, Radha-Raman-temple
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12-Oct-2009
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Yoga
Sri Sri Ravishankar says that the mind leaves the body and goes with the soul at the time of death. This mind gives us enough trouble in life, the chattering, restless mind…
Tags: India, travel, Bangalore, Art-of-living, Sri-Sri-Ravi-Shankar, yoga, BKS-Iyengar
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13-Oct-2009
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Books
Each time you start dreaming about how perfect your life would be if...come back to this moment, give thanks for what is, and do one thing to perfect what you have and who you are right now.
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13-Oct-2009
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Yoga
This sort of love which flies away is not considered love. That is considered attachment. That love which does not grow is not love, Then what it is? It is called attachment. Attachment is mother of all miseries.
Tags: Swami-Rama, Yoga, Love
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14-Oct-2009
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Books
The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than land, but it works the same way. It doesn't care what we plant...success...or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal...or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety and so on. But what we plant must return to us.
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15-Oct-2009
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Sri Maha Lakshmi Ashtak was composed by Indra, and is written in Padma Purana. In Bangalore, I find ladies singing it in temples as commonly as Durga Chalisa is sung in temples of North India.
Tags: Bhakti-yoga, video, Indian-music, Lakshmi, Devi, Sanskrit, lyrics
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18-Oct-2009
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In the sandy deserts of Rajasthan, a girl sings that her beloved had promised to return to the village and her in the rainy season. Without him, she finds her homeland lonely.
Tags: Jagjit-Singh, Indian-music, lyrics, video, Rajasthan, folk-music
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22-Oct-2009
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Ayurveda
This looks golden, smells great, and tastes wonderful. The only thing to be careful about is to keep the heat slow while caramelising. We want it golden, but overdo it by just a few seconds and the sugar burns and makes it bitter.
Tags: Vaishnav-cuisine, Awadhi-cuisine, Ayurvedic, vata-pacifying, recipe, sweet-dish, recipe, vegetarian
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