Miley sur mera tumhara made the youngsters of this Nation witness a unique kind of thrill and unity in India. This song has been re-done on the eve of India’s 60th Republic Day celebrations. I tried some networks to download the same, but could not. More about it later.
My friend’s mother is in hospital. It is a hospital built and maintained by mostly North Indians. The charges are very little but compared to the big Public hospital slightly higher. It is a neat hospital with Paani poori stalls on both sides of the hospital and chapathis are available at Rs.5/- per chapathi.
When I was having Paani Poori with my friend I was worried about the hygiene. He said that while he was working in a workshop there was a plague worry and the workers came to this Hospital. The Doctor with a confidence, observing the workers said that they were living in India and should not worry like Americans for every small health problem! He prescribed some oral tablets and the workers became alright.
I am quoting the incident only to the health conditions here in India and the common practice followed here. Plague is same everywhere but the Doctor has controlled the fear. May be he could analyse that workers were more worried and not affected by plaque. But Americans are more worried about cleanliness. They do not realize that however clean they may be, we are all born here on Earth and must have the strength and mercy of God to protect us.
Pongal went on well. In many houses though the “thai” tamil month was born at 3.30 pm during which Pongal was to be celebrated, the Pongal was done in early morning. This was due to practical difficulty of taking food, namely Pongal. Some years back Pongal had significance, as it was the day of New crops.
But now, in many paddy fields, sugarcane is grown in plenty. This was confirmed by my relative, whom I visited today. Tomorrow is the solar eclipse day and we should have any solid food before 8.30 am. We should take bath sometime in the afternoon, when the eclipse is over. Though this may sound irrational, we still follow the rules. Anything in the stomach, food might not digest properly and it would do harm. All is belief, we may argue, but this one might have a scientific meaning.
I have no doubt that homely food is healthy and suits our taste. The burden of making daily fresh food is a time taking affair. I will discuss here only the vegetarian mode - cutting vegetables, cooking rice, making chapathis, rasam and sambhar. For making sambhar and rasam monthly once we have to make powder. We have to buy vegetables fresh or keep it in fridge.
For breakfast we have Rice with sambhar, rasam and vegetable curry. And I forgot – we have curd or butter milk. For afternoon we have a nice dosas, idly, chapathi or something which is made from rice. All our South Indian dishes are made out of rice or a less percentage of wheat. Though less oil can be used, rice itself is harmful if consumed in a higher quantity. So what should I do? Consume more salads and less rice!
Got two books to read as suggested by my son, “five point someone” and “2 states”. At just Rs95/- each!
I have first started with five point someone. The reading is not like that of any Western author. All Indian words and no fantasy writing. It is all pure Indian and exactly suits the surroundings. I was once amused to take my relative to an IIT, Chennai. I have always wanted not to do at an IIT, but become more than an IIT did. Same with IIM.
I really pity the IIT and IIM graduates who have to undergo the study schedules and tortures and I have a view that they are slaves of knowledge and not the original. I had long back changed that attitude. They are really men the outside world cannot understand or appreciate.
And I am reading Chetan Bhgat’s novel and it needs a slow reading. To laugh at the real life situations and remember my college days in Loyola.
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