Amazing dishes prepared by mum on Onam
Onam is an annual harvest festival, celebrated mainly in the south Indian state of Kerala. It is a popular festival among the cultural repertoire of Malayalees, and falls during the month of Chingam (August-September as per the Gregorian calendar), the first month of the Malayalam calendar and lasts for ten days. Traditionally celebrated as a harvest festival, mythologically it is linked to Malayalee-Hindu folktales.But Onam is celebrated by people of all religions .
Onam sadhya is usually a feast served during this festival on banana leaves and serves rice along with at least an array of 4 dishes. Traditional pickles and papadam are also served . Dessert - is usually 'payasam ' a sweet dish made of milk, sugar and other traditional Indian savories.
See Wikipedia, Onam, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onam
Sunday, August 26, 2007
123....Nuclear energy
After rigorous rounds of negotiation India finally signed the nuclear agreement with USA . Our energy requirement would have been met for the next few decades. Scientist applauded even I was thrilled ,finally no power cuts and no candle lit homes, they all would have been a thing of the past. Our neighbors Pakistan looked at the deal with envy (after the nuclear proliferation ,nuclear agreement with any nation was ruled out) China who acted as big brother in south Asia was afraid that it would tilt the military and economic balance towards India. Finally when the agreement was made public in India the reaction of the left and right wing BJP was really bad .The left in particular are opposing the deal and giving such ambiguous reasons and they say that India would loose its sovereignty .I have followed the 123 agreement and the Hyde act and have concluded that the contentious issue is that the deal can be terminated if India conducts a nuclear test , we will any way face international sanctions if we conduct a nuclear test with treaty or no treaty .Then why is the left so hell bent on scrapping this deal. The reasons can be found in the lefts outdated ideology .They have hard coded notion in there brains that the US is bad and India will never prosper if we have any association with .It is ironical that the left talk about sovereignty ,it is the same party who openly supported the Chinese during the sixties war with china .Some of the walls on the streets of Calcutta where painted “Chinese chairman is our chairman”.The left leaders are in constant touch with the Chinese comrades on the other side of china. So it is very much possible that left is heavily influenced by the Chinese government in opposing the deal. Its hard to believe the BJP is also opposing this deal because they where the ones who sarted it all when they where in power. The role of the opposition is not to oppose each and every thing the government does but constructively criticize and support the government if it s doing good for the country .I don't think the BJP should bring down just because they want to have mid term polls and get back in power
I am no supporter of the Congress but I praise PM Manmohan Singh for his stand on this issue .He says that history will judge his action ,I am sure it will be a turning point in India if this deal is passed .Just as in the early nineties when Manmohan singh changed the path of India with economic reforms this deal has the potential to make India an economic powerhouse
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