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Terror plot foiled, explosives seized from car near Brahmavar
by CD Network
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:16



Major media will not publish this news since Terrorist is not belonged to a minority community or not belongs to Bhatkal or Mangalore.
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Udupi, May 10: A possible terror attack was foiled on Wednesday with the recovery of huge quantity of explosives and detonators from a car near Brahmavar in Udupi district.

The Brahmavar police seized explosives from Ganesh Prasad, a resident of Shiriyar village, at Jambur in Yedthady village coming under the limits of Brahmavar police station.

It is learnt that Ganesh Prasad was an activist of a Hindutva outfit.

Superintendent of Police M B Boralingaiah informed media that the police had seized 16 gelatine sticks, six detonators, and one kg of gunpowder.

The suspected terrorist was carrying the detonators and gunpowder in a car without permit, when he was caught by the police at Yedthady.

The value of the seized items including the car was estimated at Rs 75,000. A case had been registered.


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+6 #Saleem,Jubail — 2012-05-10
Effects of Thogadiya's Visit to Mangalore....?
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+14 #Saleem,Mangaloer — 2012-05-10
Please observe these years - 1992, 2002. These years are R.S.S.mile stones. Like that they plan to create communal riot in the year 2012 also. So, please my dear brothers ( Hindu, muslim & christian) stand united against these communal outfit. Specially, in the coastal reagion of Karnataka and kasargod. Because, recently Dajjal's companian Mr. Togadia visited these places.
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+13 #faizalahmed,mangalore/alkhobar — 2012-05-10
AGAIN I SAY ...TIME FOR HINDUS AND MUSLIMS TO UNITE AGAINST THE SAFFRON TERRORISTS TRYING TO BREAK OUR UNITY & MAKE INDIA LIKE ANOTHER PAKISTAN OR AFGHANISTAN....RUINED COUNTRIES WITH INTERNAL CLASHES SO SOMEONE ELSE CAN TAKE BENEFIT AND SAFFRONS CAN GET ENOUGH MONEY FROM WESTERNS & JEWS.....
Put the gelatin sticks into his back and show a lighter in front of every media....and he will speak the name of his real fathers......I hope this proof must be enough to chase the saffrons out of India.......KASARGOD PEOPLE PLEASE WATCH OUT......This was suppose to be reaching there..............THE AFTER VISIT ACTION OF MODI'S BROTHER TOGADIA....
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+13 #Ashraf,Jubail — 2012-05-10
Major media will not publish this news since Terrorist is not belonged to a minority community or not belongs to Bhatkal or Mangalore.
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+15 #BILAL,RE: Terror plot foiled, explosives seized from car in Brahmavar — 2012-05-10
.ADD TO YOUR FILE...

IT IS HEADING TOWARDS KASARGOD..
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+13 #Abdul Jaleel,Udupi / KSA — 2012-05-10
Off Course. Assembly & Loksabha elections are approaching. For some parties bomb blasts will bring lot (no. of votes depends on how serious the blast is!) of votes. Soon Hindu (actually that is RSS Samavesha) Samavesha will start every were & some (not all!) swami’s will start election campaign without party flags. Indeed those parties have no other way to gain the votes.
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Hindus in Pakistan

OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, May 9: India will convey its concerns over recent atrocities against Hindus in Pakistan, the Centre told the Lok Sabha today while appealing to the people and the government in Islamabad to protect the constitutional rights of minorities and ensure their safety.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna said “based on reports of persecution of minority groups in Pakistan, (the Indian) government has taken up the matter with the government of Pakistan” despite the 1972 Shimla agreement’s stress on “non-interference in each other’s internal affairs”.

The minister, however, cited a string of recent statements by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as evidence of their commitment to ensure the safety of Pakistan’s Hindus, Sikhs and other religious minorities.

Krishna’s statement during zero hour came after senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi raised the issue last week and demanded a reply. The reports of persecution of minorities, particularly Hindus and Sikhs, had prompted Joshi and his fellow party MPs to express concern.

Krishna acknowledged that from time to time, there were reports about problems faced by minorities in Pakistan. “Incidents of persecution and intimidation of the minority communities have also been reported.” He specifically referred to the incidents of three Hindu girls from Sindh being reportedly abducted and married against their will to Muslims after forceful conversions.

The minister also spoke about reports of kidnapping and killing of members of the minority communities and desecration/encroachment of their places of religious worship.

“This issue is a matter of concern to the (Indian) government. It is the responsibility of the Government of Pakistan to discharge its constitutional obligations towards its citizens, including those from the minority community,” Krishna said, but reminded the House that the Shimla agreement enjoined the neighbours not to interfere in each other’s internal affairs.

He then read out statements of Zardari and Gilani on some of the incidents. The President “has taken serious note of the reports of the kidnapping of a Hindu girl from Sindh and allegedly being forced by some influential people of the area to convert and called for a report from the provincial government”.

Krishna added further from the statement that Zardari had “called for transparent and expeditious investigations and to take action in accordance with the law, regardless of the influence and status of anyone involved in criminal activity”.

The minister pointed out that in November last year Zardari had sought a report on the killings of three Hindu doctors in Sindh and ordered immediate arrests of those responsible.

“He (Zardari) had said that it was the moral and legal responsibility of the government to protect members of the minority community against vandalism and atrocities,” Krishna said, adding MPs, NGOs and civil society groups in Pakistan had expressed concern on the recent incidents.

The minister then quoted from Prime Minister Gilani’s August 2011 speech on the occasion of “Minorities’ Day”. “Unfortunately, some extremist elements with a view to advancing their own narrow and bigoted agendas have targeted the minorities. The government, however, stands fully committed to foil the designs of these extremist elements. The perpetrators of the crime against the minority community anywhere in Pakistan must be brought to justice and they will be.”

Krishna said that while it was India’s “hope that Pakistan will discharge its constitutional duties towards its minority communities, in view of the purely humanitarian nature of this issue, we appeal to the people and the Government of Pakistan to protect the rights of the minorities by ensuring their safety, security and wellbeing”.

Junior external affairs minister Preneet Kaur echoed Krishna, saying the issue had been taken up with Pakistan. “The government of Pakistan stated that it was fully cognisant of the situation and looked after the welfare of all its citizens, particularly the minority community,” Kaur said.

Some MPs then sought the Centre’s response on alleged desecration of Hindu temples in Bangladesh and temples and gurdwaras in Pakistan. To this, Kaur said: “The Parliament of Bangladesh has passed the Vested Property Return (Amendment) Bill 2011 in November 2011 for restoring the properties seized from minority groups. The government of Bangladesh is formulating rules for implementation of the act.”

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Hindus in Pakistan

OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, May 9: India will convey its concerns over recent atrocities against Hindus in Pakistan, the Centre told the Lok Sabha today while appealing to the people and the government in Islamabad to protect the constitutional rights of minorities and ensure their safety.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna said “based on reports of persecution of minority groups in Pakistan, (the Indian) government has taken up the matter with the government of Pakistan” despite the 1972 Shimla agreement’s stress on “non-interference in each other’s internal affairs”.

The minister, however, cited a string of recent statements by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as evidence of their commitment to ensure the safety of Pakistan’s Hindus, Sikhs and other religious minorities.

Krishna’s statement during zero hour came after senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi raised the issue last week and demanded a reply. The reports of persecution of minorities, particularly Hindus and Sikhs, had prompted Joshi and his fellow party MPs to express concern.

Krishna acknowledged that from time to time, there were reports about problems faced by minorities in Pakistan. “Incidents of persecution and intimidation of the minority communities have also been reported.” He specifically referred to the incidents of three Hindu girls from Sindh being reportedly abducted and married against their will to Muslims after forceful conversions.

The minister also spoke about reports of kidnapping and killing of members of the minority communities and desecration/encroachment of their places of religious worship.

“This issue is a matter of concern to the (Indian) government. It is the responsibility of the Government of Pakistan to discharge its constitutional obligations towards its citizens, including those from the minority community,” Krishna said, but reminded the House that the Shimla agreement enjoined the neighbours not to interfere in each other’s internal affairs.

He then read out statements of Zardari and Gilani on some of the incidents. The President “has taken serious note of the reports of the kidnapping of a Hindu girl from Sindh and allegedly being forced by some influential people of the area to convert and called for a report from the provincial government”.

Krishna added further from the statement that Zardari had “called for transparent and expeditious investigations and to take action in accordance with the law, regardless of the influence and status of anyone involved in criminal activity”.

The minister pointed out that in November last year Zardari had sought a report on the killings of three Hindu doctors in Sindh and ordered immediate arrests of those responsible.

“He (Zardari) had said that it was the moral and legal responsibility of the government to protect members of the minority community against vandalism and atrocities,” Krishna said, adding MPs, NGOs and civil society groups in Pakistan had expressed concern on the recent incidents.

The minister then quoted from Prime Minister Gilani’s August 2011 speech on the occasion of “Minorities’ Day”. “Unfortunately, some extremist elements with a view to advancing their own narrow and bigoted agendas have targeted the minorities. The government, however, stands fully committed to foil the designs of these extremist elements. The perpetrators of the crime against the minority community anywhere in Pakistan must be brought to justice and they will be.”

Krishna said that while it was India’s “hope that Pakistan will discharge its constitutional duties towards its minority communities, in view of the purely humanitarian nature of this issue, we appeal to the people and the Government of Pakistan to protect the rights of the minorities by ensuring their safety, security and wellbeing”.

Junior external affairs minister Preneet Kaur echoed Krishna, saying the issue had been taken up with Pakistan. “The government of Pakistan stated that it was fully cognisant of the situation and looked after the welfare of all its citizens, particularly the minority community,” Kaur said.

Some MPs then sought the Centre’s response on alleged desecration of Hindu temples in Bangladesh and temples and gurdwaras in Pakistan. To this, Kaur said: “The Parliament of Bangladesh has passed the Vested Property Return (Amendment) Bill 2011 in November 2011 for restoring the properties seized from minority groups. The government of Bangladesh is formulating rules for implementation of the act.”

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New Delhi, May 10 (PTI):India’s exports grew by 3.2 per cent to US$24.5 billion in April, while imports rose 3.8 per cent,
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the lowest trade deficit that the country has logged in a year, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said Thursday.

Imports during the first month of the current fiscal added up to $37.9 billion, leaving a trade a deficit of $13.4 billion. ”This
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is the lowest trade deficit we have had in last one year... This month (April), we see deceleration in imports,” Khullar said.

The exporting sectors that registered healthy growth in April include engineering, electronic, pharmaceutical and chemical. However, exports of gems and jewelleries contracted by 25.7 per cent to $2.6 billion.

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to clean your shit trade deficit Makkar Bania behenchod

India aims to narrow trade deficit through MFN.!!!export to Pakistan

Bania Anxious Trade Deficit look to Pak MFN export

Exports grow 3.2% to $24.5 bn in April; trade deficit narrows

New Delhi, May 10 (PTI):India’s exports grew by 3.2 per cent to US$24.5 billion in April, while imports rose 3.8 per cent,
========================


leading to


the lowest trade deficit that the country has logged in a year, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said Thursday.

Imports during the first month of the current fiscal added up to $37.9 billion, leaving a trade a deficit of $13.4 billion. ”This
====================
is the lowest trade deficit we have had in last one year... This month (April), we see deceleration in imports,” Khullar said.

The exporting sectors that registered healthy growth in April include engineering, electronic, pharmaceutical and chemical. However, exports of gems and jewelleries contracted by 25.7 per cent to $2.6 billion.

maderchod Rundi baaz Singh Vision tunnel wants MFN chutiyah gandu


to clean your shit trade deficit Makkar Bania behenchod

India aims to narrow trade deficit through MFN.!!!export to Pakistan

Bania Anxious Trade Deficit look to Pak MFN export

Exports grow 3.2% to $24.5 bn in April; trade deficit narrows

New Delhi, May 10 (PTI):India’s exports grew by 3.2 per cent to US$24.5 billion in April, while imports rose 3.8 per cent,
========================


leading to


the lowest trade deficit that the country has logged in a year, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said Thursday.

Imports during the first month of the current fiscal added up to $37.9 billion, leaving a trade a deficit of $13.4 billion. ”This
====================
is the lowest trade deficit we have had in last one year... This month (April), we see deceleration in imports,” Khullar said.

The exporting sectors that registered healthy growth in April include engineering, electronic, pharmaceutical and chemical. However, exports of gems and jewelleries contracted by 25.7 per cent to $2.6 billion.

India aims to narrow trade deficit through MFN.!!!export to Pakistan



Exports grow 3.2% to $24.5 bn in April; trade deficit narrows

New Delhi, May 10 (PTI):India’s exports grew by 3.2 per cent to US$24.5 billion in April, while imports rose 3.8 per cent,
========================


leading to


the lowest trade deficit that the country has logged in a year, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said Thursday.

Imports during the first month of the current fiscal added up to $37.9 billion, leaving a trade a deficit of $13.4 billion. ”This
====================
is the lowest trade deficit we have had in last one year... This month (April), we see deceleration in imports,” Khullar said.

The exporting sectors that registered healthy growth in April include engineering, electronic, pharmaceutical and chemical. However, exports of gems and jewelleries contracted by 25.7 per cent to $2.6 billion.

Rupee under strict watch, up to RBI to check speculation in forex market: Kaushik Basu

10 years, rupee has been inflating at 10 per cent and the dollar at 2

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Concerned over the volatility in the rupee, Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu on Thursday made a case for the Reserve Bank of India curbing speculative activity in the foreign exchange market.

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Hillary’s date with history
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She’s cheerleader in trafficking crusade

MOHUA DAS
SHE SAID

● That was wonderful! I was in a trance for a while.
(After the dance performance by the Sanved girls)

● What can I do to help and bring more visibility to this issue? (On trafficking)

Hillary Clinton leaves Victoria Memorial on Sunday evening. The green band on her left wrist (in circle), given to her at the anti-trafficking programme in ICCR earlier, read: “Cool Men Don’t Buy Sex”. Picture by Sanjoy Ghosh
To them, she was “US ka bahut bara neta….Bill Clinton ki biwi (a top leader of the US….Bill Clinton’s wife)”. To her, they were the faces of a movement close to her heart.

When Poonam Khatoon, 16, and Uma Das, 19, finally found themselves face to face with Hillary Clinton at the Rabindranath Tagore Centre of the ICCR on Sunday afternoon, all it needed was a smile to break down the barriers.

“Aami bhabtei parini onar shamne darate parbo. Uni amader lorai-tey shamil hoyechhen, sheta ekta boro byapar (I couldn’t imagine I would be standing in front of her. She has joined our crusade, that’s a big thing),” Uma told Metro of her meeting with the US secretary of state.

Community worker Uma and Poonam, a student of Class IX, are daughters of women in prostitution involved with Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a grassroots movement to end sex trafficking. The duo took turns escorting Hillary through a pictorial journey of a trafficked girl.

Poonam also displayed her karate skills during a show put up by various city-based NGOs.

The former First Lady watched rapt as a group of dancers moved in rhythmic motion towards her, singing Mousumi Bhowmik’s Aami shunechhi shedin tumi.

At the end of the performance, she burst into a spontaneous “Aaaah” and walked towards the dancers, clapping all the while.

“That was wonderful! I was in a trance for a while. How long did you take to learn that?” Hillary told the dancers, before shaking hands with each of them.

“I was so impressed! Loved your breathing...wonderful! So proud of you,” she kept repeating.

Hillary was then escorted towards the exhibition space, where alongside Apne Aap, the NGO Banglanatak had put up a patachitra scroll. The Sonagachhi-based group Sari Bari organised an audio-visual presentation to depict the scourge of trafficking.

In another room, the heads of nine NGOs were waiting their turn for a meeting with Hillary. “After her round of the stalls, I told her: ‘I am so glad you have come because it brings attention to an issue that is so invisible’. She immediately said: ‘That’s what I want to talk to you about, and let me see how I can get you more attention on this’,” said Apne Aap founder Ruchira Gupta, who moderated the discussion.

“She (Hillary) wanted to know how she could help and I told her: ‘By exerting more political pressure, speaking about it wherever you can and to remember this issue while working on defence and trade’. She was under the impression that the Immoral Traffic Prevention Law had changed (i.e. punishing the pimps and brothel owners and not the women), but we informed her that it hasn’t. She wanted to know who makes these changes and we told her it would have to be the Centre,” Gupta told Metro.

As she was leaving, Hillary told her and the rest of the group: “I am really proud of you. Don’t feel weary… I am totally your cheerleader; so continue what you are doing and I’ll stand by you.”

The secretary of state’s keepsake from the Sunday afternoon rendezvous was a green wristband with the words: “Cool Men Don’t Buy Sex”.

Hillary not only wore the band immediately, she insisted that members of her entourage sport one each as well. “She was also gifted a T-shirt that read: ‘Together we can end sex trafficking’. She wanted two because she wanted to gift one to Luis CdeBaca, who heads the Global Trafficking in Persons office in the US. She was happy that both were large sized!” smiled Gupta.

SHE SAID

● That was wonderful! I was in a trance for a while.
(After the dance performance by the Sanved girls)

● What can I do to help and bring more visibility to this issue? (On trafficking)

● I’m really proud of you. I’m totally your cheerleader so continue what you’re doing and I’ll stand by you. (To Ruchira Gupta and the NGO workers)

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Hillary’s date with history
---------------------------------
She’s cheerleader in trafficking crusade

MOHUA DAS
SHE SAID

● That was wonderful! I was in a trance for a while.
(After the dance performance by the Sanved girls)

● What can I do to help and bring more visibility to this issue? (On trafficking)

Hillary Clinton leaves Victoria Memorial on Sunday evening. The green band on her left wrist (in circle), given to her at the anti-trafficking programme in ICCR earlier, read: “Cool Men Don’t Buy Sex”. Picture by Sanjoy Ghosh
To them, she was “US ka bahut bara neta….Bill Clinton ki biwi (a top leader of the US….Bill Clinton’s wife)”. To her, they were the faces of a movement close to her heart.

When Poonam Khatoon, 16, and Uma Das, 19, finally found themselves face to face with Hillary Clinton at the Rabindranath Tagore Centre of the ICCR on Sunday afternoon, all it needed was a smile to break down the barriers.

“Aami bhabtei parini onar shamne darate parbo. Uni amader lorai-tey shamil hoyechhen, sheta ekta boro byapar (I couldn’t imagine I would be standing in front of her. She has joined our crusade, that’s a big thing),” Uma told Metro of her meeting with the US secretary of state.

Community worker Uma and Poonam, a student of Class IX, are daughters of women in prostitution involved with Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a grassroots movement to end sex trafficking. The duo took turns escorting Hillary through a pictorial journey of a trafficked girl.

Poonam also displayed her karate skills during a show put up by various city-based NGOs.

The former First Lady watched rapt as a group of dancers moved in rhythmic motion towards her, singing Mousumi Bhowmik’s Aami shunechhi shedin tumi.

At the end of the performance, she burst into a spontaneous “Aaaah” and walked towards the dancers, clapping all the while.

“That was wonderful! I was in a trance for a while. How long did you take to learn that?” Hillary told the dancers, before shaking hands with each of them.

“I was so impressed! Loved your breathing...wonderful! So proud of you,” she kept repeating.

Hillary was then escorted towards the exhibition space, where alongside Apne Aap, the NGO Banglanatak had put up a patachitra scroll. The Sonagachhi-based group Sari Bari organised an audio-visual presentation to depict the scourge of trafficking.

In another room, the heads of nine NGOs were waiting their turn for a meeting with Hillary. “After her round of the stalls, I told her: ‘I am so glad you have come because it brings attention to an issue that is so invisible’. She immediately said: ‘That’s what I want to talk to you about, and let me see how I can get you more attention on this’,” said Apne Aap founder Ruchira Gupta, who moderated the discussion.

“She (Hillary) wanted to know how she could help and I told her: ‘By exerting more political pressure, speaking about it wherever you can and to remember this issue while working on defence and trade’. She was under the impression that the Immoral Traffic Prevention Law had changed (i.e. punishing the pimps and brothel owners and not the women), but we informed her that it hasn’t. She wanted to know who makes these changes and we told her it would have to be the Centre,” Gupta told Metro.

As she was leaving, Hillary told her and the rest of the group: “I am really proud of you. Don’t feel weary… I am totally your cheerleader; so continue what you are doing and I’ll stand by you.”

The secretary of state’s keepsake from the Sunday afternoon rendezvous was a green wristband with the words: “Cool Men Don’t Buy Sex”.

Hillary not only wore the band immediately, she insisted that members of her entourage sport one each as well. “She was also gifted a T-shirt that read: ‘Together we can end sex trafficking’. She wanted two because she wanted to gift one to Luis CdeBaca, who heads the Global Trafficking in Persons office in the US. She was happy that both were large sized!” smiled Gupta.

SHE SAID

● That was wonderful! I was in a trance for a while.
(After the dance performance by the Sanved girls)

● What can I do to help and bring more visibility to this issue? (On trafficking)

● I’m really proud of you. I’m totally your cheerleader so continue what you’re doing and I’ll stand by you. (To Ruchira Gupta and the NGO workers)

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A Cowed-Down Nation
Why kill over a people’s dietary preference for beef?
Meena Kandasamy
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“The university and all teaching systems that appear simply to disseminate knowledge are made to maintain a certain social class in power, and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.... The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.”

—Michel Foucault, debate with Noam Chomsky, 1971

It looks like Foucault’s “real political task” is what the organisers of the recent beef-eating festival at Osmania University set out to do: they fought the “food fascism” that kept beef out of the menu, reminded the secular state that a university hostel mess was not Sankara math, and criticised the imposition of caste-Hindu dietary diktats on Dalits from within the confines of a seemingly neutral educational institution. When they rapped “Beef is the secret of my energy” with all the soul of an outlaw anthem, it sounded like the secret heartbeat of an anti-caste cultural revolution.

But the stone-pelting, vehicle-torching ABVP hooliganism and the OU vice-chancellor S. Satyanarayana’s statement that beef would not be served in hostels unmasked a pattern of political violence. Tucking into beef biriyani behind the smokescreen of the teargas firing at OU, one could imagine the rage of a caste-Hindu mob that lynched five Dalits in Jhajjar, Haryana, in 2002 for skinning a dead cow. A week earlier, Hindu extremists had triggered communal disturbances in Hyderabad’s Old City area by hurling beef in the Hanuman temple at Kurmaguda. Both these incidents highlight the ideological framework of Hindutva mobilisation using a certain female quadruped political player who is capable of igniting riots, whose dead flesh could cause a city to disintegrate into communal violence.

Instead of acknowledging the beef-fest as an act of Dalit assertion, right-wing commentators said it was a ploy to dent the Telangana struggle. They propped up pork to silence other minorities and cast this as a Hindu-Muslim stand-off when it was actually about untouchability. Dr Ambedkar had theorised that broken men (and women) rebelling against caste became untouchables because they were Buddhists and beef-eaters. Beef, being a Dalit food, was kept away from caste-Hindus and stigmatised. To enforce the strict regimentation of caste codes, beef-eating was prohibited for Hindus. And not just in the Manusmriti.

Because India is a Hindu state at heart despite all apparitions to the contrary, Article 48 of the Constitution requires the State to take steps to prohibit the slaughter of cows. Anti-cow slaughter laws in most states promise prison terms. In implementing Hindutva, nobody outdoes Narendra Modi. He sparked off the state-aided slaughter of Muslims a decade ago, but now tries to balance his karma by conducting dental and cataract surgeries for cows. Note: Hinduism only asks of a ruler to protect cows from slaughter. While Muslim victims of the Gujarat riots still languish in relief camps, Modi gloats that no cow has to travel more than three kilometres to reach a health camp. In this animal farm, Her Holiness Mother Cow is a first-class citizen with health insurance and a pension plan. Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and Christians, being beef-eating minorities, cannot press for similar privileges.

She hasn’t always been treated with motherly respect, though: D.N. Jha’s book The Myth of the Holy Cow documented the problematic (and under-appreciated) history of Brahmin/Hindu beef-eating in ancient India, before the taboos evolved, while Manish Jha’s film Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women depicted the sexual abuse of a cow by sex-starved men. Perhaps that’s why when the BJP was in power, the National Cow Commission (2002) suggested forming a Central Cattle Protection Rapid Task Police Force and wanted amendments to pota to enable detention of those smuggling cows.

There is no point getting offended if someone enjoys beef in all its juicy glory. Since nobody is being force-fed, tolerance means digesting the idea that just as cows are meant to be milked, cows are also meant to be meat. There cannot be a shred of doubt that in a racist nation which advertises vaginal skin-lightening creams, the large, naive eyes and flawless complexion make the cow an attractive mother. Men take pride in being mummy’s boys, but it is high time Hindutva organisations and secular, state-run universities stop being swayed by bovine sex appeal, step out of their Oedipus complex and remind themselves that cows, at least the fertile ones, are only mothers of calves. Why kill for a cow, when you aren’t born of one?


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. . . By weight, vegetables are not consumed much. You could have an entire South Indian vegetarian meal without encountering a vegetable. The most important vegetable is the starchy aloo. Greens are not cooked flash-fried in the healthy manner of the Chinese, but boiled or fried till much of the nutrient value is killed.







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... Lancet reported a study of 20,000 Indian patients and found that 60 per cent of the world's heart disease patients are in India . . .

. . . By weight, vegetables are not consumed much. You could have an entire South Indian vegetarian meal without encountering a vegetable. The most important vegetable is the starchy aloo. Greens are not cooked flash-fried in the healthy manner of the Chinese, but boiled or fried till much of the nutrient value is killed.








Posted by Life Style Posted on Apr, 29 2011

Why Indians are stressed and unhealthy
===================================================
Manmohan Singh had his arteries bypassed recently, a procedure that increasing numbers of Indians are having. Last year, medical journal Lancet reported a study of 20,000 Indian patients and found that 60 per cent of the world's heart disease patients are in India, which has 15 per cent of the world's population.

This number is surprising because reports of obesity and heart disease focus on fat Americans and their food. What could account for Indians being so susceptible -- more even than burger-and-fries eating Americans?

Four things:


Diet, Culture, Stress and Lack of Fitness.

There is no doctrinal prescription for vegetarianism in Hindu diet, and some texts explicitly sanction the eating of meat. But vegetarianism has become dogma.

Indian food is assumed to be strongly vegetarian, but it is actually lacking in vegetables. Our diet is centred around wheat, in the north, and rice, in the south. The second most important element is daal in its various forms. By weight, vegetables are not consumed much. You could have an entire South Indian vegetarian meal without encountering a vegetable. The most important vegetable is the starchy aloo. Greens are not cooked flash-fried in the healthy manner of the Chinese, but boiled or fried till much of the nutrient value is killed.

Gujaratis and Punjabis are the two Indian communities most susceptible to heart disease. Their vulnerability is recent. Both have a large peasant population -- Patels and Jats -- who in the last few decades have moved from an agrarian life to an urban one. They have retained their diet and if anything made it richer, but their bodies do not work as much. This transition from a physical life to a sedentary one has made them vulnerable..

Gujaratis lead the toll for diabetes as well, and the dietary aspect of this is really the fallout of the state's economic success. Unlike most Indian states, Gujarat has a rich and developed urban culture because of the mercantile nature of its society. Gujaratis have been living in cities for centuries.

His prosperity has given the Gujarati surplus money and, importantly, surplus time. These in turn have led to snacky foods, some deep fried, some steamed and some, uniquely in India, baked with yeast. Most Indians are familiar with the Gujarati family on holiday, pulling out vast quantities of snacks the moment the train pushes off.

Gujarati peasant food -- bajra (millet) roti, a lightly cooked green, garlic and red chilli chutney, and buttermilk -- is actually supremely healthy. But the peasant Patel has succumbed to the food of the 'higher' trader and now prefers the oily and the sweet.

Marathi peasant food is similar, but not as wholesome with a thick and pasty porridge called zunka replacing the green.

Bombay's junk food was invented in the 19th century to service Gujarati traders leaving Fort's business district late in the evening after a long day. Pao bhaji, mashed leftover vegetables in a tomato gravy served with shallow-fried buns of bread, was one such invention.

The most popular snack in Bombay is vada pao, which has a batter-fried potato ball stuck in a bun. The bun -- yeast bread -- is not native to India and gets its name pao from the Portuguese who brought it in the 16th century. Bal Thackeray encouraged Bombay's unemployed Marathi boys to set up vada pao stalls in the 60s, which they did and still do.

The travelling chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain called vada pao the best Indian thing he had ever eaten, but it is heart attack food..

Though Jains are a very small part (one per cent or thereabouts) of the Gujarati population, such is their cultural dominance through trade that many South Bombay restaurants have a 'Jain' option on the menu. This is food without garlic and ginger. Since they are both tubers (as also are potatoes), Jains do not eat them, because in uprooting them from the soil, living organisms may be killed (no religious restriction on butter and cheese, however!). Even in Bombay, this intolerance prevails. Domino's, the famous pizza chain, has a vegetarian-only pizza outlet on Malabar Hill (Jinnah's neighbourhood). Foreigners like Indian food, and it is very popular in England, but they find our sweets too sweet. This taste for excess sugar extends also to beverage: Maulana Azad called Indian tea 'liquid halwa'. Only in the last decade have cafes begun offering sugar on the side, as diabetes has spread..

India's culture encourages swift consumption. There is no conversation at meal-time, as there is in Europe. Because there are no courses, the eating is relentless. You can be seated, served and be finished eating at a Gujarati or Marathi or South Indian thali restaurant in 15 minutes. It is eating in the manner of animals: for pure nourishment.

We eat with fingers, as opposed to knives and forks, or chopsticks, resulting in the scooping up of bigger mouthfuls. Because the nature of the food does not allow for leisurely eating, Indians do not have a drink with their meals. We drink before and then stagger to the table.

As is the case in societies of scarcity, rich food is considered good -- and ghee is a sacred word in all Indian languages. There is no escape from fat. In India, advertising for healthy eating also shows food deep fried, but in lower-cholesterol oil.

The insistence by family - 'thoda aur le lo' -- at the table is part of our culture of hospitality, as is the offering of tea and perhaps also a snack to visiting guests and strangers. Middle class Indians, even families that earn Rs10,000 a month, will have servants. Work that the European and American does, the Indian does not want to do: cooking, cleaning, washing up.

Painting the house, changing tyres, tinkering in the garage, moving things around, getting a cup of tea at the office, these are things the Indian gets someone else to do for him.. There is no sense of private space and the constant presence of the servant is accepted.

Gandhi's value to India was not on his political side, but through his religious and cultural reforms. What Gandhi attempted to drill into Indians through living a life of action was a change in our culture of lethargy and dependence. Gandhi stressed physical self-sufficiency, and even cleaned his toilet out himself.

But he wasn't successful in making us change, and most Indians will not associate Gandhi with physical self-sufficiency though that was his principal message. Indian men do no work around the house. Middle class women do little, especially after childbirth. Many cook, but the cutting and cleaning is done by the servant. Slim in their teens, they turn thick-waisted in their 20s, within a few years of marriage.

Since we are dependent on other people, we have less control over events. The Indian is under stress and is anxious. This is bad for his health. He must be on constant guard against the world, which takes advantage of him: the servant's perfidy, encroachment by his neighbours, cars cutting in front of him in traffic, the vendor's rate that must be haggled down. Almost nothing is orderly and everything must be worried about.

In the Indian office, the payroll is a secret, and nobody is told what the other makes. Knowledge causes great stress, though the lack of information is also stressful, leading to spy games and office gossip.

Because there is no individualism in India, merit comes from seniority and the talented but young executive is stressed by the knowledge that he's not holding the position he deserves. Indians are peerless detectors of social standing and the vertical hierarchy of the Indian office is sacrosanct.

Dennis Kux pointed out that Indian diplomats do not engage officially with an American of lower rank, even if the American was authorised to decide the matter. In the last decade, when Indians began owning companies abroad, the Wall Street Journal reported on cultural problems that arose. Their foreign employees learnt quickly that saying 'no' would cause their Indian bosses great offence, so they learnt to communicate with them as with children.

Indians shine in the west where their culture doesn't hold them back. In India honour is high and the individual is alert to slights from those below him, which discomfort him greatly. There is no culture of physical fitness, and because of this Indians don't have an active old age.

Past 60, they crumble. Within society they must step back and play their scripted role. Widows at that age, even younger, have no hope of remarriage because sacrifice is expected of them. Widowers at 60 must also reconcile to singlehood, and the family would be aghast if they showed interest in the opposite sex at that age, even though this would be normal in another culture.

Elders are cared for within the family, but are defanged when they pass on their wealth to their son in the joint family. They lose their self-esteem as they understand their irrelevance, and wither.

The writer is a former newspaper editor who lives in Bombay.



Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Feb, 05 2011

Bombay Pav Bhaji Recipe...



Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 25 minutes
Servings : 4


INGREDIENTS

Potatoes, boiled and mashed4 medium
Tomatoes, chopped4 medium
Onions, chopped2 medium
Green capsicum, chopped deseeded1 medium
Cauliflower, grated1/4 small
Green peas, shelled1/4 cup
Ginger, chopped1 inch piece
Garlic8-10 cloves
Oil3 tablespoons
Green chillies, chopped3-4
Pav bhaji masala1 1/2 tablespoons
Saltto taste
Butter3 tablespoons
Pav8
Fresh coriander leaves, chopped1/4 cup
Lemons, cut into wedges2


METHOD
Boil green peas in salted water till soft, drain, mash lightly and set aside. Grind ginger and garlic to a fine paste. Heat oil in a pan and add three fourth quantity of onions. Sauté till light brown. Add green chillies and ginger-garlic paste. Stir-fry for half a minute. Add half the quantity of tomatoes and cook on medium heat for three to four minutes, stirring continuously or till oil separates from the masala. Add capsicum, mashed peas, cauliflower, potatoes and one and half cups of water. Bring it to a boil and simmer for ten minutes, pressing with back of the spoon a few times, till all the vegetables are completely mashed. Add Pavbhaji Masala, salt and remaining tomatoes. Cook on medium heat for two minutes, stirring continuously. Heat half of the butter in a thick-bottomed pan or a tawa. Slice pav horizontally into two and pan fry in butter for half a minute, pressing two or three times or till pav is crisp and light brown. Garnish the bhaji with chopped coriander leaves, remaining butter and serve hot with pav accompanied with remaining chopped onion and lemon wedges.







Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Feb, 02 2011

Enjoy CHEESY MACRONI Recipe...





Preparation Time : 25 minutes
Cooking Time : 15 minutes
Servings : 4


INGREDIENTS

Macaroni(1 1/2 cups) 200 grams
Oil4 tablespoons
Saltto taste
Onions, cut into 1/2 inch squares2 large
Tinned corn kernels1/2 cup
Green capsicum, cut into 1/2 inch pieces1 medium
Baked beans(1/2 cup) 150 grams
Tomato ketchup4 tablespoons
Red chilli sauce2 teaspoons
Soy sauce2 teaspoons
Cream1/2 cup
Processed cheese, grated2 tablespoons


METHOD
Heat sufficient water in a non-stick deep pan, add half teaspoon oil and a little salt and boil the macaroni till al dente. Drain and refresh. Spread out onto a plate.Heat the remaining oil in a non-stick pan and add the onions and sauté till translucent. Add the sweet corn and sauté for a couple of minutes. Add the capsicum and baked beans and sauté for three to four minutes. Add the boiled macaroni, tomato ketchup, red chilli sauce, soy sauce and salt and toss gently. Add the cream and toss gently. Sprinkle the cheese and serve hot.







Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Jan, 20 2011

EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE



EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

This delicious chocolate cake can be enjoyed by the vegetarians too!

Preparation Time : 15-20 minutes

Cooking Time : 10-15 minutes

Servings : 4



INGREDIENTS


Dark chocolate
100 grams
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Butter
1 cup
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Refined flour (maida)
1 1/3 cups
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Baking powder
2 teaspoons
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Powdered sugar
1 cup + 2 tablespoons
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Vanilla essence
1 teaspoon
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Milk
3/4 cup
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Walnuts, peeled
1/2 cup
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METHOD
Grate chocolate. Cut the butter into cubes. Grease a Microwave proof dish. Melt butter and chocolate in a Microwave proof bowl in the Microwave oven for one minute on Microwave HIGH (100%). In another bowl sieve refined flour and baking powder. Mix the melted butter and chocolate well. Add powdered sugar, vanilla essence and mix. Add the flour mixture and mix. Correct the consistency by adding milk. Add walnuts and mix gently. Transfer the mixture into the greased Microwave proof dish. Bake in the Microwave at HIGH (100%) for seven minutes. Allow standing time of five minutes. Cool, slice and serve.








Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Jan, 13 2011

Make Till ladoo in Makar Sankranti...Here is the recepie.

Ingredients:
2 cups white sesame seeds
1/4 cup peanuts
3/4 cup soft jaggery
1 tsp ghee


Method:
Roast sesame seeds and peanuts separately
Let it cool
Crush the peanuts
Mash jaggery till soft.
Put in a large heavy pan.
Add ghee and heat, till it melts and starts bubbling.
Add peanuts and sesame seeds, take off fire.
Mix well till well blended.
While still hot, shape into pingpong ball size ladoos, with moist hands (apply ghee on your hands).
Allow to cool completely, before storing in airtight container.







Posted by Frenii Shah Posted on Dec, 24 2010

Recipe of Christmas cake

Ingredients:

240 gms flour (maida)
200 gms sugar
4 eggs
120 gms butter
1 tsp. baking powder
360 gms raisins
100 ml rum
few drops vanilla essence
150 gms lemon peel
50 gms walnuts
30 gms crystallised cherries
Method:
Grease the cake tin and sprinkle a little flour on the surface. Place a sheet of paraffin paper on the bottom.
Cut the cherries, walnuts and lemon peel into small pieces and immerse them along with the raisins in the rum.
Cream the butter and sugar along with the vanilla essence.
Add in the eggs gradually mixing all the while.
Fold in the flour and baking powder.
Mix in the rum with all the ingredients soaked in it.
Pour the cake batter into the tin and bake at 160° C for about 15 to 20 minutes.
Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 15 to 20 minutes




Posted by Frenii Shah Posted on Dec, 17 2010

PANEER FRANKIE FOR KIDS



Delicious frankies stuffed with paneer filling
Preparation Time : 25 minutes
Cooking Time : 45 minutes
Servings : 4


INGREDIENTS

Cottage cheese (paneer), crumbled150 grams
Whole wheat flour (atta)1 cup
Saltto taste
Oil1 tablespoon + for shallow frying
Onion , roughly chopped1 large
Tomato, chopped1 large
Ginger paste1 teaspoon
Garlic paste1 teaspoon
Kashmiri red chilli powder1/4 teaspoon
Turmeric powder1/4 teaspoon
Coriander powder (optional)1 teaspoon
Lemon juice1 tablespoon
To Serve
Green chutney4 teaspoons
Onion , finely chopped1 medium
Chaat masala1 teaspoon


METHOD
Mix the whole-wheat flour and salt, add sufficient water and knead into a firm dough. Cover with a damp cloth and keep for about fifteen minutes. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, add the onions, tomatoes, ginger paste, garlic paste, salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and stir. Cook till everything blends well and the excess moisture has dried up. Add the paneer and lemon juice, mix and take it off the heat. Divide the filling into four equal portions and set aside. Divide the dough into four equal balls and roll out into thin rotis. Heat a non-stick tawa, place a roti on it, drizzle a little oil all around and cook till both the sides are evenly cooked. Spread a teaspoon of green chutney all over the roti. Place a portion of paneer mixture on one side. Sprinkle some onions and chaat masala over it and roll the roti. Similarly prepare the rest of the frankies. Wrap in aluminum foil and serve.




Posted by Admin MyCitySurat Posted on Dec, 09 2010

INDIAN SPICES FOR ALL DISEASES






COLDS
Mix a gram of dalchini/cinnamon powder with a teaspoon of honey to** cure cold. Prepare a cup of tea to which you should add ginger, clove, bay leaf and black pepper... This should be consumed twice a day.. Reduce the intake as the cold disappears.* **

GINGER FOR COLDS
Ginger tea is very good to cure cold. Preparation of tea: cut ginger into small pieces and boil it with water, boil it a few times and then add sugar to sweeten and milk to taste, and drink it hot.

DRY COUGHS
Add a gram of turmeric (haldi) powder to a teaspoon of honey for curing dry cough. Also chew a cardamom for a long time.

BLOCKED NOSE
For blocked nose or to relieve congestion, take a table spoon of crushed carom seeds (ajwain) and tie it in a cloth and inhale it.

SORE THROAT
Add a tea spoon of cumin seeds (jeera) and a few small pieces of dry ginger to a glass of boiling water. Simmer it for a few minutes, and then let it cool. Drink it twice daily. This will cure cold as well as sour throat.

AJWAIN/AJMO FOR ASTHMA*
*Boil ajwain in water and inhale the steam.

CURE FOR BACKACHE
Rub ginger paste on the backache to get relief.

GARLIC FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE**
Have 1-2 pod garlic (lasan) first thing in the morning with water *

HONEY AND GINGER FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Mix 1 table spoon and 1 table spoon ginger (adrak) juice, *1 table spoon of crushed cumin seeds (jeera), and have it twice daily.

MIGRAINE
For the cure of migraine or acute cold in the head; boil a tablespoon of pepper powder, and a pinch of turmeric in a cup of milk, and have it daily for a few couple of days.

BITTER GOURD/KARELA IS GOOD
A tablespoon of amla juice mixed with a cup of fresh bitter gourd (karela) juice and taken daily for 2 months reduces blood sugar.

TURMERIC: CURE FOR INJURIES
For any cut or wound, apply turmeric powder to the injured portion to stop the bleeding. It also works as an antiseptic. You can tie a bandage after applying haldi/turmeric.

CRAMPS
You must do a self-massage using mustard oil every morning. Just take a little oil between your palms and rub it all over your body. Then take a shower. This is especially beneficial during winter. You could also mix a little mustard powder with water to make a paste and apply this on your palms and soles of your feet.

HEADACHES
If you have a regular migraine problem, include five almonds along with hot milk in your daily diet. You could also have a gram of black pepper along with honey or milk, twice or thrice a day. Make an almond paste by rubbing wet almonds against a stone. This can be applied to forehead.

Eat an apple with a little salt on an empty stomach everyday and see its wonderful effects. OR when headache is caused by cold winds, cinnamon works best in curing headache. Make a paste of cinnamon by mixing in water and apply it all over your forehead *

TURMERIC FOR ARTHRITIS
Turmeric can be used in treating arthritis due to its anti-inflammatory property. Turmeric can be taken as a drink other than adding to dishes to help prevent all problems. Use one teaspoon of turmeric powder per cup of warm milk every day. It is also used as a paste for local action.

GOOD FOR THE HEART
Turmeric lower cholesterol and by preventing the formation of the internal blood clots improves circulation and prevents heart disease and stroke. Turmeric can be taken as a drink other than adding to dishes to help prevent all problems.. Use one teaspoon of turmeric powder per cup of warm milk every day. It is also used as a paste for local action.

GOOD FOR INDIGESTION *
Turmeric can be used to relieve digestive problems like ulcers, dysentery. Turmeric can be taken as a drink other than adding to dishes to help prevent all problems. Use one teaspoon of turmeric powder per cup of warm milk every day. It is also used as a paste for local action.

HONEY IS A GOOD CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
Mix 1 teaspoon honey with a teaspoon of cinnamon powder and have it at night.

HICCUPS
Take a warm slice of lemon and sprinkle salt, sugar and black pepper on it. The lemon should be eaten until the hiccups stop. *

HIGH BLOOD CHOLESTEROL
In 1 glass of water, add 2 tbsps of coriander/dhania seeds and bring to a boil. Let the decoction cool for some time and then strain. Drink this mixture two times in a day. **OR Sunflower seeds are extremely beneficial, as they contain linoleic acid that helps in reducing the cholesterol deposits on the walls of arteries.

PILES
Radish juice should be taken twice a day, once in the morning and then later in the night. Initially drink about ? cup of radish juice and then gradually increase it to ? cup.. OR Soak 3-4 figs in a glass of water. Keep it overnight. Consume the figs on an empty stomach, the next day in the morning

VOMITING
Take 2 cardamoms/elachi and roast them on a dry pan (tava). Powder the cardamoms and thereafter add a tsp of honey in it. Consume it frequently. It serves as a fabulous home remedy for vomiting. OR In the mixture of 1 tsp of mint juice and 1 tsp limejuice, add 1 tsp of ginger juice and 1 tsp honey. Drink this mixture to prevent vomiting. *

*OR Limejuice is an effective remedy for vomiting. Take a glass of chilled limejuice and sip slowly. To prevent vomiting, drink ginger tea. OR In 1 glass water, add some honey and drink sip by sip. *

WARTS
Apply castor oil daily over the problematic area. Continue for several months. OR Apply milky juice of fresh and barely-ripe figs a number of times a day. Continue for two weeks. OR Rub cut raw potatoes on the affected area several times daily. Continue for at least two weeks. *

*OR Rub cut onions on the warts to stimulate the circulation of blood. OR Apply milk from the cut end of dandelion over the warts 2-3 times a day. OR Apply oil extracted from the shell of the cashew nut over the warts. OR Apply Papaya juice OR Apply Pineapple juice.*

URINARY TRACT INFECTION
Drink Cranberry juice. You can also add some apple juice for taste.

SINUSITIS
Mango serves as an effective home remedy for preventing the frequent attacks of sinus, as it is packed with loads of vitamin A. OR Another beneficial remedy consists of consuming pungent foods like onion and garlic, as a part of your daily meals. OR Fenugreek/methi leaves are considered valuable in curing sinusitis. In 250 ml water, boil 1 tsp of Fenugreek seeds and reduce it to half. This will help you to perspire, dispel toxicity and reduce the fever period. OR Tie a tsp of black cumin seeds in a thin cotton cloth and inhale.*

TONSILLITIS
Take a fresh lemon and squeeze it in a glass of water. Add 4 tsp of honey and ? tsp of salt in it. Drink it slowly sip by sip. OR Milk has proved beneficial in treating tonsillitis. In 1 glass of pure boiled milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder and pepper powder. Drink it every night for about 3days. *






Posted by Life Style Posted on Oct, 22 2010

Hot chocolate cake with toffee sauce recipe

This wonderful chocolate cake recipe has the added perk of a rich toffee sauce drizzled over it.

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... Lancet reported a study of 20,000 Indian patients and found that 60 per cent of the world's heart disease patients are in India . . .

. . . By weight, vegetables are not consumed much. You could have an entire South Indian vegetarian meal without encountering a vegetable. The most important vegetable is the starchy aloo. Greens are not cooked flash-fried in the healthy manner of the Chinese, but boiled or fried till much of the nutrient value is killed.








Posted by Life Style Posted on Apr, 29 2011

Why Indians are stressed and unhealthy
===================================================
Manmohan Singh had his arteries bypassed recently, a procedure that increasing numbers of Indians are having. Last year, medical journal Lancet reported a study of 20,000 Indian patients and found that 60 per cent of the world's heart disease patients are in India, which has 15 per cent of the world's population.

This number is surprising because reports of obesity and heart disease focus on fat Americans and their food. What could account for Indians being so susceptible -- more even than burger-and-fries eating Americans?

Four things:


Diet, Culture, Stress and Lack of Fitness.

There is no doctrinal prescription for vegetarianism in Hindu diet, and some texts explicitly sanction the eating of meat. But vegetarianism has become dogma.

Indian food is assumed to be strongly vegetarian, but it is actually lacking in vegetables. Our diet is centred around wheat, in the north, and rice, in the south. The second most important element is daal in its various forms. By weight, vegetables are not consumed much. You could have an entire South Indian vegetarian meal without encountering a vegetable. The most important vegetable is the starchy aloo. Greens are not cooked flash-fried in the healthy manner of the Chinese, but boiled or fried till much of the nutrient value is killed.

Gujaratis and Punjabis are the two Indian communities most susceptible to heart disease. Their vulnerability is recent. Both have a large peasant population -- Patels and Jats -- who in the last few decades have moved from an agrarian life to an urban one. They have retained their diet and if anything made it richer, but their bodies do not work as much. This transition from a physical life to a sedentary one has made them vulnerable..

Gujaratis lead the toll for diabetes as well, and the dietary aspect of this is really the fallout of the state's economic success. Unlike most Indian states, Gujarat has a rich and developed urban culture because of the mercantile nature of its society. Gujaratis have been living in cities for centuries.

His prosperity has given the Gujarati surplus money and, importantly, surplus time. These in turn have led to snacky foods, some deep fried, some steamed and some, uniquely in India, baked with yeast. Most Indians are familiar with the Gujarati family on holiday, pulling out vast quantities of snacks the moment the train pushes off.

Gujarati peasant food -- bajra (millet) roti, a lightly cooked green, garlic and red chilli chutney, and buttermilk -- is actually supremely healthy. But the peasant Patel has succumbed to the food of the 'higher' trader and now prefers the oily and the sweet.

Marathi peasant food is similar, but not as wholesome with a thick and pasty porridge called zunka replacing the green.

Bombay's junk food was invented in the 19th century to service Gujarati traders leaving Fort's business district late in the evening after a long day. Pao bhaji, mashed leftover vegetables in a tomato gravy served with shallow-fried buns of bread, was one such invention.

The most popular snack in Bombay is vada pao, which has a batter-fried potato ball stuck in a bun. The bun -- yeast bread -- is not native to India and gets its name pao from the Portuguese who brought it in the 16th century. Bal Thackeray encouraged Bombay's unemployed Marathi boys to set up vada pao stalls in the 60s, which they did and still do.

The travelling chef and TV star Anthony Bourdain called vada pao the best Indian thing he had ever eaten, but it is heart attack food..

Though Jains are a very small part (one per cent or thereabouts) of the Gujarati population, such is their cultural dominance through trade that many South Bombay restaurants have a 'Jain' option on the menu. This is food without garlic and ginger. Since they are both tubers (as also are potatoes), Jains do not eat them, because in uprooting them from the soil, living organisms may be killed (no religious restriction on butter and cheese, however!). Even in Bombay, this intolerance prevails. Domino's, the famous pizza chain, has a vegetarian-only pizza outlet on Malabar Hill (Jinnah's neighbourhood). Foreigners like Indian food, and it is very popular in England, but they find our sweets too sweet. This taste for excess sugar extends also to beverage: Maulana Azad called Indian tea 'liquid halwa'. Only in the last decade have cafes begun offering sugar on the side, as diabetes has spread..

India's culture encourages swift consumption. There is no conversation at meal-time, as there is in Europe. Because there are no courses, the eating is relentless. You can be seated, served and be finished eating at a Gujarati or Marathi or South Indian thali restaurant in 15 minutes. It is eating in the manner of animals: for pure nourishment.

We eat with fingers, as opposed to knives and forks, or chopsticks, resulting in the scooping up of bigger mouthfuls. Because the nature of the food does not allow for leisurely eating, Indians do not have a drink with their meals. We drink before and then stagger to the table.

As is the case in societies of scarcity, rich food is considered good -- and ghee is a sacred word in all Indian languages. There is no escape from fat. In India, advertising for healthy eating also shows food deep fried, but in lower-cholesterol oil.

The insistence by family - 'thoda aur le lo' -- at the table is part of our culture of hospitality, as is the offering of tea and perhaps also a snack to visiting guests and strangers. Middle class Indians, even families that earn Rs10,000 a month, will have servants. Work that the European and American does, the Indian does not want to do: cooking, cleaning, washing up.

Painting the house, changing tyres, tinkering in the garage, moving things around, getting a cup of tea at the office, these are things the Indian gets someone else to do for him.. There is no sense of private space and the constant presence of the servant is accepted.

Gandhi's value to India was not on his political side, but through his religious and cultural reforms. What Gandhi attempted to drill into Indians through living a life of action was a change in our culture of lethargy and dependence. Gandhi stressed physical self-sufficiency, and even cleaned his toilet out himself.

But he wasn't successful in making us change, and most Indians will not associate Gandhi with physical self-sufficiency though that was his principal message. Indian men do no work around the house. Middle class women do little, especially after childbirth. Many cook, but the cutting and cleaning is done by the servant. Slim in their teens, they turn thick-waisted in their 20s, within a few years of marriage.

Since we are dependent on other people, we have less control over events. The Indian is under stress and is anxious. This is bad for his health. He must be on constant guard against the world, which takes advantage of him: the servant's perfidy, encroachment by his neighbours, cars cutting in front of him in traffic, the vendor's rate that must be haggled down. Almost nothing is orderly and everything must be worried about.

In the Indian office, the payroll is a secret, and nobody is told what the other makes. Knowledge causes great stress, though the lack of information is also stressful, leading to spy games and office gossip.

Because there is no individualism in India, merit comes from seniority and the talented but young executive is stressed by the knowledge that he's not holding the position he deserves. Indians are peerless detectors of social standing and the vertical hierarchy of the Indian office is sacrosanct.

Dennis Kux pointed out that Indian diplomats do not engage officially with an American of lower rank, even if the American was authorised to decide the matter. In the last decade, when Indians began owning companies abroad, the Wall Street Journal reported on cultural problems that arose. Their foreign employees learnt quickly that saying 'no' would cause their Indian bosses great offence, so they learnt to communicate with them as with children.

Indians shine in the west where their culture doesn't hold them back. In India honour is high and the individual is alert to slights from those below him, which discomfort him greatly. There is no culture of physical fitness, and because of this Indians don't have an active old age.

Past 60, they crumble. Within society they must step back and play their scripted role. Widows at that age, even younger, have no hope of remarriage because sacrifice is expected of them. Widowers at 60 must also reconcile to singlehood, and the family would be aghast if they showed interest in the opposite sex at that age, even though this would be normal in another culture.

Elders are cared for within the family, but are defanged when they pass on their wealth to their son in the joint family. They lose their self-esteem as they understand their irrelevance, and wither.

The writer is a former newspaper editor who lives in Bombay.



Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Feb, 05 2011

Bombay Pav Bhaji Recipe...



Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 25 minutes
Servings : 4


INGREDIENTS

Potatoes, boiled and mashed4 medium
Tomatoes, chopped4 medium
Onions, chopped2 medium
Green capsicum, chopped deseeded1 medium
Cauliflower, grated1/4 small
Green peas, shelled1/4 cup
Ginger, chopped1 inch piece
Garlic8-10 cloves
Oil3 tablespoons
Green chillies, chopped3-4
Pav bhaji masala1 1/2 tablespoons
Saltto taste
Butter3 tablespoons
Pav8
Fresh coriander leaves, chopped1/4 cup
Lemons, cut into wedges2


METHOD
Boil green peas in salted water till soft, drain, mash lightly and set aside. Grind ginger and garlic to a fine paste. Heat oil in a pan and add three fourth quantity of onions. Sauté till light brown. Add green chillies and ginger-garlic paste. Stir-fry for half a minute. Add half the quantity of tomatoes and cook on medium heat for three to four minutes, stirring continuously or till oil separates from the masala. Add capsicum, mashed peas, cauliflower, potatoes and one and half cups of water. Bring it to a boil and simmer for ten minutes, pressing with back of the spoon a few times, till all the vegetables are completely mashed. Add Pavbhaji Masala, salt and remaining tomatoes. Cook on medium heat for two minutes, stirring continuously. Heat half of the butter in a thick-bottomed pan or a tawa. Slice pav horizontally into two and pan fry in butter for half a minute, pressing two or three times or till pav is crisp and light brown. Garnish the bhaji with chopped coriander leaves, remaining butter and serve hot with pav accompanied with remaining chopped onion and lemon wedges.







Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Feb, 02 2011

Enjoy CHEESY MACRONI Recipe...





Preparation Time : 25 minutes
Cooking Time : 15 minutes
Servings : 4


INGREDIENTS

Macaroni(1 1/2 cups) 200 grams
Oil4 tablespoons
Saltto taste
Onions, cut into 1/2 inch squares2 large
Tinned corn kernels1/2 cup
Green capsicum, cut into 1/2 inch pieces1 medium
Baked beans(1/2 cup) 150 grams
Tomato ketchup4 tablespoons
Red chilli sauce2 teaspoons
Soy sauce2 teaspoons
Cream1/2 cup
Processed cheese, grated2 tablespoons


METHOD
Heat sufficient water in a non-stick deep pan, add half teaspoon oil and a little salt and boil the macaroni till al dente. Drain and refresh. Spread out onto a plate.Heat the remaining oil in a non-stick pan and add the onions and sauté till translucent. Add the sweet corn and sauté for a couple of minutes. Add the capsicum and baked beans and sauté for three to four minutes. Add the boiled macaroni, tomato ketchup, red chilli sauce, soy sauce and salt and toss gently. Add the cream and toss gently. Sprinkle the cheese and serve hot.







Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Jan, 20 2011

EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE



EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

This delicious chocolate cake can be enjoyed by the vegetarians too!

Preparation Time : 15-20 minutes

Cooking Time : 10-15 minutes

Servings : 4



INGREDIENTS


Dark chocolate
100 grams
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Butter
1 cup
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Refined flour (maida)
1 1/3 cups
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Baking powder
2 teaspoons
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Powdered sugar
1 cup + 2 tablespoons
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Vanilla essence
1 teaspoon
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Milk
3/4 cup
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Walnuts, peeled
1/2 cup
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METHOD
Grate chocolate. Cut the butter into cubes. Grease a Microwave proof dish. Melt butter and chocolate in a Microwave proof bowl in the Microwave oven for one minute on Microwave HIGH (100%). In another bowl sieve refined flour and baking powder. Mix the melted butter and chocolate well. Add powdered sugar, vanilla essence and mix. Add the flour mixture and mix. Correct the consistency by adding milk. Add walnuts and mix gently. Transfer the mixture into the greased Microwave proof dish. Bake in the Microwave at HIGH (100%) for seven minutes. Allow standing time of five minutes. Cool, slice and serve.








Posted by Foram Antani Posted on Jan, 13 2011

Make Till ladoo in Makar Sankranti...Here is the recepie.

Ingredients:
2 cups white sesame seeds
1/4 cup peanuts
3/4 cup soft jaggery
1 tsp ghee


Method:
Roast sesame seeds and peanuts separately
Let it cool
Crush the peanuts
Mash jaggery till soft.
Put in a large heavy pan.
Add ghee and heat, till it melts and starts bubbling.
Add peanuts and sesame seeds, take off fire.
Mix well till well blended.
While still hot, shape into pingpong ball size ladoos, with moist hands (apply ghee on your hands).
Allow to cool completely, before storing in airtight container.







Posted by Frenii Shah Posted on Dec, 24 2010

Recipe of Christmas cake

Ingredients:

240 gms flour (maida)
200 gms sugar
4 eggs
120 gms butter
1 tsp. baking powder
360 gms raisins
100 ml rum
few drops vanilla essence
150 gms lemon peel
50 gms walnuts
30 gms crystallised cherries
Method:
Grease the cake tin and sprinkle a little flour on the surface. Place a sheet of paraffin paper on the bottom.
Cut the cherries, walnuts and lemon peel into small pieces and immerse them along with the raisins in the rum.
Cream the butter and sugar along with the vanilla essence.
Add in the eggs gradually mixing all the while.
Fold in the flour and baking powder.
Mix in the rum with all the ingredients soaked in it.
Pour the cake batter into the tin and bake at 160° C for about 15 to 20 minutes.
Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 15 to 20 minutes




Posted by Frenii Shah Posted on Dec, 17 2010

PANEER FRANKIE FOR KIDS



Delicious frankies stuffed with paneer filling
Preparation Time : 25 minutes
Cooking Time : 45 minutes
Servings : 4


INGREDIENTS

Cottage cheese (paneer), crumbled150 grams
Whole wheat flour (atta)1 cup
Saltto taste
Oil1 tablespoon + for shallow frying
Onion , roughly chopped1 large
Tomato, chopped1 large
Ginger paste1 teaspoon
Garlic paste1 teaspoon
Kashmiri red chilli powder1/4 teaspoon
Turmeric powder1/4 teaspoon
Coriander powder (optional)1 teaspoon
Lemon juice1 tablespoon
To Serve
Green chutney4 teaspoons
Onion , finely chopped1 medium
Chaat masala1 teaspoon


METHOD
Mix the whole-wheat flour and salt, add sufficient water and knead into a firm dough. Cover with a damp cloth and keep for about fifteen minutes. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, add the onions, tomatoes, ginger paste, garlic paste, salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and stir. Cook till everything blends well and the excess moisture has dried up. Add the paneer and lemon juice, mix and take it off the heat. Divide the filling into four equal portions and set aside. Divide the dough into four equal balls and roll out into thin rotis. Heat a non-stick tawa, place a roti on it, drizzle a little oil all around and cook till both the sides are evenly cooked. Spread a teaspoon of green chutney all over the roti. Place a portion of paneer mixture on one side. Sprinkle some onions and chaat masala over it and roll the roti. Similarly prepare the rest of the frankies. Wrap in aluminum foil and serve.




Posted by Admin MyCitySurat Posted on Dec, 09 2010

INDIAN SPICES FOR ALL DISEASES






COLDS
Mix a gram of dalchini/cinnamon powder with a teaspoon of honey to** cure cold. Prepare a cup of tea to which you should add ginger, clove, bay leaf and black pepper... This should be consumed twice a day.. Reduce the intake as the cold disappears.* **

GINGER FOR COLDS
Ginger tea is very good to cure cold. Preparation of tea: cut ginger into small pieces and boil it with water, boil it a few times and then add sugar to sweeten and milk to taste, and drink it hot.

DRY COUGHS
Add a gram of turmeric (haldi) powder to a teaspoon of honey for curing dry cough. Also chew a cardamom for a long time.

BLOCKED NOSE
For blocked nose or to relieve congestion, take a table spoon of crushed carom seeds (ajwain) and tie it in a cloth and inhale it.

SORE THROAT
Add a tea spoon of cumin seeds (jeera) and a few small pieces of dry ginger to a glass of boiling water. Simmer it for a few minutes, and then let it cool. Drink it twice daily. This will cure cold as well as sour throat.

AJWAIN/AJMO FOR ASTHMA*
*Boil ajwain in water and inhale the steam.

CURE FOR BACKACHE
Rub ginger paste on the backache to get relief.

GARLIC FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE**
Have 1-2 pod garlic (lasan) first thing in the morning with water *

HONEY AND GINGER FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Mix 1 table spoon and 1 table spoon ginger (adrak) juice, *1 table spoon of crushed cumin seeds (jeera), and have it twice daily.

MIGRAINE
For the cure of migraine or acute cold in the head; boil a tablespoon of pepper powder, and a pinch of turmeric in a cup of milk, and have it daily for a few couple of days.

BITTER GOURD/KARELA IS GOOD
A tablespoon of amla juice mixed with a cup of fresh bitter gourd (karela) juice and taken daily for 2 months reduces blood sugar.

TURMERIC: CURE FOR INJURIES
For any cut or wound, apply turmeric powder to the injured portion to stop the bleeding. It also works as an antiseptic. You can tie a bandage after applying haldi/turmeric.

CRAMPS
You must do a self-massage using mustard oil every morning. Just take a little oil between your palms and rub it all over your body. Then take a shower. This is especially beneficial during winter. You could also mix a little mustard powder with water to make a paste and apply this on your palms and soles of your feet.

HEADACHES
If you have a regular migraine problem, include five almonds along with hot milk in your daily diet. You could also have a gram of black pepper along with honey or milk, twice or thrice a day. Make an almond paste by rubbing wet almonds against a stone. This can be applied to forehead.

Eat an apple with a little salt on an empty stomach everyday and see its wonderful effects. OR when headache is caused by cold winds, cinnamon works best in curing headache. Make a paste of cinnamon by mixing in water and apply it all over your forehead *

TURMERIC FOR ARTHRITIS
Turmeric can be used in treating arthritis due to its anti-inflammatory property. Turmeric can be taken as a drink other than adding to dishes to help prevent all problems. Use one teaspoon of turmeric powder per cup of warm milk every day. It is also used as a paste for local action.

GOOD FOR THE HEART
Turmeric lower cholesterol and by preventing the formation of the internal blood clots improves circulation and prevents heart disease and stroke. Turmeric can be taken as a drink other than adding to dishes to help prevent all problems.. Use one teaspoon of turmeric powder per cup of warm milk every day. It is also used as a paste for local action.

GOOD FOR INDIGESTION *
Turmeric can be used to relieve digestive problems like ulcers, dysentery. Turmeric can be taken as a drink other than adding to dishes to help prevent all problems. Use one teaspoon of turmeric powder per cup of warm milk every day. It is also used as a paste for local action.

HONEY IS A GOOD CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
Mix 1 teaspoon honey with a teaspoon of cinnamon powder and have it at night.

HICCUPS
Take a warm slice of lemon and sprinkle salt, sugar and black pepper on it. The lemon should be eaten until the hiccups stop. *

HIGH BLOOD CHOLESTEROL
In 1 glass of water, add 2 tbsps of coriander/dhania seeds and bring to a boil. Let the decoction cool for some time and then strain. Drink this mixture two times in a day. **OR Sunflower seeds are extremely beneficial, as they contain linoleic acid that helps in reducing the cholesterol deposits on the walls of arteries.

PILES
Radish juice should be taken twice a day, once in the morning and then later in the night. Initially drink about ? cup of radish juice and then gradually increase it to ? cup.. OR Soak 3-4 figs in a glass of water. Keep it overnight. Consume the figs on an empty stomach, the next day in the morning

VOMITING
Take 2 cardamoms/elachi and roast them on a dry pan (tava). Powder the cardamoms and thereafter add a tsp of honey in it. Consume it frequently. It serves as a fabulous home remedy for vomiting. OR In the mixture of 1 tsp of mint juice and 1 tsp limejuice, add 1 tsp of ginger juice and 1 tsp honey. Drink this mixture to prevent vomiting. *

*OR Limejuice is an effective remedy for vomiting. Take a glass of chilled limejuice and sip slowly. To prevent vomiting, drink ginger tea. OR In 1 glass water, add some honey and drink sip by sip. *

WARTS
Apply castor oil daily over the problematic area. Continue for several months. OR Apply milky juice of fresh and barely-ripe figs a number of times a day. Continue for two weeks. OR Rub cut raw potatoes on the affected area several times daily. Continue for at least two weeks. *

*OR Rub cut onions on the warts to stimulate the circulation of blood. OR Apply milk from the cut end of dandelion over the warts 2-3 times a day. OR Apply oil extracted from the shell of the cashew nut over the warts. OR Apply Papaya juice OR Apply Pineapple juice.*

URINARY TRACT INFECTION
Drink Cranberry juice. You can also add some apple juice for taste.

SINUSITIS
Mango serves as an effective home remedy for preventing the frequent attacks of sinus, as it is packed with loads of vitamin A. OR Another beneficial remedy consists of consuming pungent foods like onion and garlic, as a part of your daily meals. OR Fenugreek/methi leaves are considered valuable in curing sinusitis. In 250 ml water, boil 1 tsp of Fenugreek seeds and reduce it to half. This will help you to perspire, dispel toxicity and reduce the fever period. OR Tie a tsp of black cumin seeds in a thin cotton cloth and inhale.*

TONSILLITIS
Take a fresh lemon and squeeze it in a glass of water. Add 4 tsp of honey and ? tsp of salt in it. Drink it slowly sip by sip. OR Milk has proved beneficial in treating tonsillitis. In 1 glass of pure boiled milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder and pepper powder. Drink it every night for about 3days. *






Posted by Life Style Posted on Oct, 22 2010

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Graduation Matriculation rate 21 % as opposed to Hindian 41 %

Minority scholorship to riot victim from Delhui stopped by Modi Hindutva Govt

800% more poverty in victim grea than average well to do hindian prosecutor

50 % more poverty than even back ward sceduled castes dalits lowly class

Laws to prevent sale of land resulting and perpetuating ghettoisation

THEY COERCE YOU TO BECOME IDOL WORSHIPPER HARAMNZADA

MUSLIM TALENT ABOUND DESPITE BASTARD,S SUPRESSING LIKE M F HUSSAIN




Graduation Matriculation rate 21 % as opposed to Hindian 41 %

Minority scholorship to riot victim from Delhui stopped by Modi Hindutva Govt

800% more poverty in victim grea than average well to do hindian prosecutor

50 % more poverty than even back ward sceduled castes dalits lowly class

Laws to prevent sale of land resulting and perpetuating ghettoisation

THEY COERCE YOU TO BECOME IDOL WORSHIPPER HARAMNZADA

MUSLIM TALENT ABOUND DESPITE BASTARD,S SUPRESSING LIKE M F HUSSAIN




Graduation Matriculation rate 21 % as opposed to Hindian 41 %

Minority scholorship to riot victim from Delhui stopped by Modi Hindutva Govt

800% more poverty in victim grea than average well to do hindian prosecutor

50 % more poverty than even back ward sceduled castes dalits lowly class

Laws to prevent sale of land resulting and perpetuating ghettoisation

THEY COERCE YOU TO BECOME IDOL WORSHIPPER HARAMNZADA

MUSLIM TALENT ABOUND DESPITE BASTARD,S SUPRESSING LIKE M F HUSSAIN




Graduation Matriculation rate 21 % as opposed to Hindian 41 %

Minority scholorship to riot victim from Delhui stopped by Modi Hindutva Govt

800% more poverty in victim grea than average well to do hindian prosecutor

50 % more poverty than even back ward sceduled castes dalits lowly class

Laws to prevent sale of land resulting and perpetuating ghettoisation

THEY COERCE YOU TO BECOME IDOL WORSHIPPER HARAMNZADA

MUSLIM TALENT ABOUND DESPITE BASTARD,S SUPRESSING LIKE M F HUSSAIN




Graduation Matriculation rate 21 % as opposed to Hindian 41 %

Minority scholorship to riot victim from Delhui stopped by Modi Hindutva Govt

800% more poverty in victim grea than average well to do hindian prosecutor

50 % more poverty than even back ward sceduled castes dalits lowly class

Laws to prevent sale of land resulting and perpetuating ghettoisation

THEY COERCE YOU TO BECOME IDOL WORSHIPPER HARAMNZADA

Graduation Matriculation rate 21 % as opposed to Hindian 41 %

Minority scholorship to riot victim from Delhui stopped by Modi Hindutva Govt

800% more poverty in victim grea than average well to do hindian prosecutor

50 % more movert than even back ward sceduled castes dalits lowly class

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Breivik calls for acquittal in Norway massacre trial
=======================================================
Anders Behring Breivik has said that he does not recognise the court
Continue reading the main story
Norway Attacks

Norway's trial of the century
Unanswered questions
Breivik profile
Disagreement over Breivik's sanity
The man accused of killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July has boasted of his actions in a statement at his trial in Oslo.

"I have carried out the most spectacular and sophisticated attack on Europe since World War II," Anders Behring Breivik told the court.

Breivik said he would do it all again and asked to be acquitted.

Although he admits the bombing and attack on a youth camp, he has pleaded not guilty to terror and mass murder.

"These acts are based on goodness, not evil," he said, adding that he had toned down his rhetoric out of concern for the victims.

As he closed his statement, pressed by the judge, Breivik said that he acted to defend Norway against immigration and multi-culturalism.

After a lunch break, the prosecution began its cross-examination of Breivik. Topics covered include his choice of uniform and his claim to be a member of the Knights Templar group, which the prosecution has previously asserted does not exist.

Breivik insisted the group did have a few members, but conceded that the language he used to describe it may have been "pompous".

Continue reading the main story
At the scene


Matthew Price
BBC News, Oslo
Think of the violence and horror of Breivik's crimes - the screams, the tears, the anguish. There couldn't be a greater contrast with the quiet, calm courtroom where the judges and lawyers are methodically going about their work.

Breivik himself is also calm. He walked slowly to the stand, clutching the 13 pages of his speech.

Asked after half an hour by the judge to shorten his remarks, he politely answered that he needed to continue, to explain why he did what he did.

He smiled with satisfaction as the day started - as one of the lay judges appointed to the trial was dismissed for having expressed his view on a social networking site that Breivik should be given the death penalty. But there have been no obvious smiles since. Breivik is businesslike, determined to get across his message.

Updates from the court on Twitter
He also implied that he drew inspiration for his strategies from al-Qaeda and added that he had not expected to survive the day.

Earlier, Breivik's lawyers warned that many Norwegians would find his comments upsetting. Geir Lippestad also said that he understood concerns by victims' families that Breivik would use his trial as a pulpit, but added that Breivik had a right to explain himself.

His testimony and that of his witnesses will not be broadcast. His testimony is expected to last for five days.

The BBC's Matthew Price in the courtroom says that Breivik's evidence will be crucial in working out if he is criminally insane and psychiatrists in court have been observing him closely.

One of the questions at the very heart of this trial, which is expected to last for 10 weeks, is Breivik's mental state. He has already said that he does not recognise the court.

Despite repeated interruptions from the judge to cut down his speech, Breivik insisted that he had more to say, although he agreed to limit his comments to Norway.

Breivik's comments have ranged from vehement criticisms of liberalism and multi-culturalism to claims that he "supports the model in South Korea and Japan".


Tore Bekkedal, survivor: "Breivik's messages are infantile and stupid"
Our correspondent says his comments about Norway fit in with his belief that liberal ideals are ruining Norway and are the reason why he attacked the governing Labour party summer camp on Utoeya island and government offices.

"I am not scared by the prospect of being in prison all my life. I was born in a prison where I could not express my beliefs," he told the court, adding: "This prison is called Norway."

Breivik said he was speaking as a representative of a Norwegian and European "resistance movement".

Judge substituted

As the day began, the court was briefly adjourned and one of three lay judges dismissed for saying last July that Breivik should face the death penalty.

A lay judge is an ordinary member of the public who forms part of the judgement panel. Thomas Indreboe was replaced by a substitute lay judge who observed proceedings yesterday.

Continue reading the main story
Breivik's Norway attacks


8 people killed and 209 injured by bomb in Oslo
69 people killed on Utoeya island, of them 34 aged between 14 and 17
33 injured on Utoeya
Nearly 900 people affected by attacks
Key moments of opening day
Norway attacks: The victims
Norway's lay judge system
How the attacks unfolded
Media digest
On Monday, prosecutors played harrowing recordings of the events and described the fate of each victim in detail.

Throughout the evidence, Breivik remained emotionless, although he shed tears when the court played a 12-minute anti-Islam video which he had posted online on the day of the carnage.

Breivik's lawyer later said that his client appeared to have cried over feelings that his attacks were "cruel but necessary... to save Europe from an ongoing war".

Breivik detonated a bomb in a van parked outside government offices in Oslo on 22 July, killing eight people.

He then travelled to Utoeya where, dressed as a police officer, he shot dead a further 69 people who were attending a youth camp run by the governing Labour party.

The 33-year-old Norwegian was found insane in one examination, while a second assessment made public last week found him mentally competent.

If the court decides he is criminally insane, he will be committed to psychiatric care; if he is judged to be mentally stable, he will be jailed if found guilty.

If jailed, he faces a sentence of 21 years which could be extended to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

The courtroom has been specially built for the trial to accommodate more than 200 people. Glass partitions have been put up to separate the victims and their families from Breivik.


More on This Story

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Breivik calls for acquittal in Norway massacre trial
=======================================================
Anders Behring Breivik has said that he does not recognise the court
Continue reading the main story
Norway Attacks

Norway's trial of the century
Unanswered questions
Breivik profile
Disagreement over Breivik's sanity
The man accused of killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July has boasted of his actions in a statement at his trial in Oslo.

"I have carried out the most spectacular and sophisticated attack on Europe since World War II," Anders Behring Breivik told the court.

Breivik said he would do it all again and asked to be acquitted.

Although he admits the bombing and attack on a youth camp, he has pleaded not guilty to terror and mass murder.

"These acts are based on goodness, not evil," he said, adding that he had toned down his rhetoric out of concern for the victims.

As he closed his statement, pressed by the judge, Breivik said that he acted to defend Norway against immigration and multi-culturalism.

After a lunch break, the prosecution began its cross-examination of Breivik. Topics covered include his choice of uniform and his claim to be a member of the Knights Templar group, which the prosecution has previously asserted does not exist.

Breivik insisted the group did have a few members, but conceded that the language he used to describe it may have been "pompous".

Continue reading the main story
At the scene


Matthew Price
BBC News, Oslo
Think of the violence and horror of Breivik's crimes - the screams, the tears, the anguish. There couldn't be a greater contrast with the quiet, calm courtroom where the judges and lawyers are methodically going about their work.

Breivik himself is also calm. He walked slowly to the stand, clutching the 13 pages of his speech.

Asked after half an hour by the judge to shorten his remarks, he politely answered that he needed to continue, to explain why he did what he did.

He smiled with satisfaction as the day started - as one of the lay judges appointed to the trial was dismissed for having expressed his view on a social networking site that Breivik should be given the death penalty. But there have been no obvious smiles since. Breivik is businesslike, determined to get across his message.

Updates from the court on Twitter
He also implied that he drew inspiration for his strategies from al-Qaeda and added that he had not expected to survive the day.

Earlier, Breivik's lawyers warned that many Norwegians would find his comments upsetting. Geir Lippestad also said that he understood concerns by victims' families that Breivik would use his trial as a pulpit, but added that Breivik had a right to explain himself.

His testimony and that of his witnesses will not be broadcast. His testimony is expected to last for five days.

The BBC's Matthew Price in the courtroom says that Breivik's evidence will be crucial in working out if he is criminally insane and psychiatrists in court have been observing him closely.

One of the questions at the very heart of this trial, which is expected to last for 10 weeks, is Breivik's mental state. He has already said that he does not recognise the court.

Despite repeated interruptions from the judge to cut down his speech, Breivik insisted that he had more to say, although he agreed to limit his comments to Norway.

Breivik's comments have ranged from vehement criticisms of liberalism and multi-culturalism to claims that he "supports the model in South Korea and Japan".


Tore Bekkedal, survivor: "Breivik's messages are infantile and stupid"
Our correspondent says his comments about Norway fit in with his belief that liberal ideals are ruining Norway and are the reason why he attacked the governing Labour party summer camp on Utoeya island and government offices.

"I am not scared by the prospect of being in prison all my life. I was born in a prison where I could not express my beliefs," he told the court, adding: "This prison is called Norway."

Breivik said he was speaking as a representative of a Norwegian and European "resistance movement".

Judge substituted

As the day began, the court was briefly adjourned and one of three lay judges dismissed for saying last July that Breivik should face the death penalty.

A lay judge is an ordinary member of the public who forms part of the judgement panel. Thomas Indreboe was replaced by a substitute lay judge who observed proceedings yesterday.

Continue reading the main story
Breivik's Norway attacks


8 people killed and 209 injured by bomb in Oslo
69 people killed on Utoeya island, of them 34 aged between 14 and 17
33 injured on Utoeya
Nearly 900 people affected by attacks
Key moments of opening day
Norway attacks: The victims
Norway's lay judge system
How the attacks unfolded
Media digest
On Monday, prosecutors played harrowing recordings of the events and described the fate of each victim in detail.

Throughout the evidence, Breivik remained emotionless, although he shed tears when the court played a 12-minute anti-Islam video which he had posted online on the day of the carnage.

Breivik's lawyer later said that his client appeared to have cried over feelings that his attacks were "cruel but necessary... to save Europe from an ongoing war".

Breivik detonated a bomb in a van parked outside government offices in Oslo on 22 July, killing eight people.

He then travelled to Utoeya where, dressed as a police officer, he shot dead a further 69 people who were attending a youth camp run by the governing Labour party.

The 33-year-old Norwegian was found insane in one examination, while a second assessment made public last week found him mentally competent.

If the court decides he is criminally insane, he will be committed to psychiatric care; if he is judged to be mentally stable, he will be jailed if found guilty.

If jailed, he faces a sentence of 21 years which could be extended to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

The courtroom has been specially built for the trial to accommodate more than 200 people. Glass partitions have been put up to separate the victims and their families from Breivik.


More on This Story

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Violence breaks out at Indian beef-eating festival
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Dalits students argue they should have freedom to eat what they want
A beef-eating festival at a university in the Indian city of Hyderabad has led to clashes between rival sets of Hindu students, police say.

They say that Hindus who regard cows as sacred fought with low caste Dalit groups who organised the event.

About 1,500 people were fed beef biriyani as part of the festival late on Sunday evening.

Dalit groups want beef on the campus hostel menu. Right wing Hindu groups say eating beef is not Hindu practice.

Last year's event at Osmania University also ended in violence.

The BBC's Omer Farooq in the city says that says there has been tension for a few days now on the campus.

Our correspondent says that has been the case ever since organisers announced that the festival - held over the weekend - would go ahead. Right wing Hindu groups soon afterwards declared their intention to stop it.

The clashes that were feared erupted on Sunday evening and carried on late into the early hours of Monday morning, reports say.

Batons and teargas
Police say that the violence began when about 100 members of the right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) marched towards the festival ground and were stopped by police.

The protesters then set two vehicles on fire and threw stones at police, who used batons and teargas to beat back the crowd.

Senior police officer Amit Garg said the situation is now under control.


Protesting students say that Hinduism is being besmirched by beef eaters
Dalit groups want beef included in the food served at the campus hostel. Festival organiser B Sudarshan told the BBC that they were involved in a fight for the "freedom to eat".

"Everyone should have the freedom to eat the food of their choice. Beef has traditionally been a part of Dalit food, it's a part of their identity," he said.

But senior ABVP leader Ramkrishna said beef eating was contrary to Hindu teachings.

"Today they are asking for beef, tomorrow they will want alcohol," he said.

Hindus comprise the religious majority in India and most regard cows as sacred. They are widely used in temple ceremonies and freely wander through the country's busy towns and markets.

Correspondents say that in the traditional Hindu caste system, Dalits - formerly known as "untouchables" - are considered the lowest and poorest of low caste people.

But some Dalit groups argue that beef has been part of their diet for centuries.
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Violence breaks out at Indian beef-eating festival
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Dalits students argue they should have freedom to eat what they want
A beef-eating festival at a university in the Indian city of Hyderabad has led to clashes between rival sets of Hindu students, police say.

They say that Hindus who regard cows as sacred fought with low caste Dalit groups who organised the event.

About 1,500 people were fed beef biriyani as part of the festival late on Sunday evening.

Dalit groups want beef on the campus hostel menu. Right wing Hindu groups say eating beef is not Hindu practice.

Last year's event at Osmania University also ended in violence.

The BBC's Omer Farooq in the city says that says there has been tension for a few days now on the campus.

Our correspondent says that has been the case ever since organisers announced that the festival - held over the weekend - would go ahead. Right wing Hindu groups soon afterwards declared their intention to stop it.

The clashes that were feared erupted on Sunday evening and carried on late into the early hours of Monday morning, reports say.

Batons and teargas
Police say that the violence began when about 100 members of the right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) marched towards the festival ground and were stopped by police.

The protesters then set two vehicles on fire and threw stones at police, who used batons and teargas to beat back the crowd.

Senior police officer Amit Garg said the situation is now under control.


Protesting students say that Hinduism is being besmirched by beef eaters
Dalit groups want beef included in the food served at the campus hostel. Festival organiser B Sudarshan told the BBC that they were involved in a fight for the "freedom to eat".

"Everyone should have the freedom to eat the food of their choice. Beef has traditionally been a part of Dalit food, it's a part of their identity," he said.

But senior ABVP leader Ramkrishna said beef eating was contrary to Hindu teachings.

"Today they are asking for beef, tomorrow they will want alcohol," he said.

Hindus comprise the religious majority in India and most regard cows as sacred. They are widely used in temple ceremonies and freely wander through the country's busy towns and markets.

Correspondents say that in the traditional Hindu caste system, Dalits - formerly known as "untouchables" - are considered the lowest and poorest of low caste people.

But some Dalit groups argue that beef has been part of their diet for centuries.
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6 April 2012 Last updated at 09:56 ET Share this pageEmailPrint
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Violence breaks out at Indian beef-eating festival
==================================================
Dalits students argue they should have freedom to eat what they want
A beef-eating festival at a university in the Indian city of Hyderabad has led to clashes between rival sets of Hindu students, police say.

They say that Hindus who regard cows as sacred fought with low caste Dalit groups who organised the event.

About 1,500 people were fed beef biriyani as part of the festival late on Sunday evening.

Dalit groups want beef on the campus hostel menu. Right wing Hindu groups say eating beef is not Hindu practice.

Last year's event at Osmania University also ended in violence.

The BBC's Omer Farooq in the city says that says there has been tension for a few days now on the campus.

Our correspondent says that has been the case ever since organisers announced that the festival - held over the weekend - would go ahead. Right wing Hindu groups soon afterwards declared their intention to stop it.

The clashes that were feared erupted on Sunday evening and carried on late into the early hours of Monday morning, reports say.

Batons and teargas
Police say that the violence began when about 100 members of the right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) marched towards the festival ground and were stopped by police.

The protesters then set two vehicles on fire and threw stones at police, who used batons and teargas to beat back the crowd.

Senior police officer Amit Garg said the situation is now under control.


Protesting students say that Hinduism is being besmirched by beef eaters
Dalit groups want beef included in the food served at the campus hostel. Festival organiser B Sudarshan told the BBC that they were involved in a fight for the "freedom to eat".

"Everyone should have the freedom to eat the food of their choice. Beef has traditionally been a part of Dalit food, it's a part of their identity," he said.

But senior ABVP leader Ramkrishna said beef eating was contrary to Hindu teachings.

"Today they are asking for beef, tomorrow they will want alcohol," he said.

Hindus comprise the religious majority in India and most regard cows as sacred. They are widely used in temple ceremonies and freely wander through the country's busy towns and markets.

Correspondents say that in the traditional Hindu caste system, Dalits - formerly known as "untouchables" - are considered the lowest and poorest of low caste people.

But some Dalit groups argue that beef has been part of their diet for centuries.
marriage ban' criticised