Pindi-Chana For Dinner!

Today is Monday, I have no work so I have decided to cook Pindi-Chana for dinner. It is an easy recipe to make. All you need is time and patience, you wont need such items which are hard to get. All items are there in your kitchen so just have a look there!

Ingredients

1- 1 cup kabuli chana, soaked overnight.
2- 2 tbsp chana dal, soaked overnight.
3- 2 black cardamoms.
4- 25 mm. (1") stick of cinnamon (dalchini).
5- 1/4 tsp baking soda.
6- 2 tsp tea leaves.
7- 1/2 cup grated onions.
8- 1 1/2 tsp pomegranate powder.
9- 1 tsp ginger paste.
10- 1 tsp sliced green chillies.
11- 1 tsp coriander (dhania) powder.
12- 1 tsp punjabi garam masala.
13- 1/2 tsp chilli powder.
14- 3/4 cup fresh tomato puree.
15- 2 tsp chole masala.
16- 4 tbsp oil.
17- Salt to taste.

Just have a look at these ingredients, all are available in your kitchen. Every ingredient has its own value both taste wise and health wise. For garnishing use green coriander leaves and cheese (small pieces).

Procedure-

1. Drain and wash the kabuli chana and chana dal. Keep aside.
2. Make a small potli by tying the cardamom, cinnamon and tea leaves in a 2" x 2" piece of muslin cloth.
3. Pressure cook the kabuli chana, chana dal, the potli, soda-bi-carb, salt and 2½ cups of water for 2 whistles.
4. Discard the potli and keep aside.
5. Heat the oil in a kadhai, add the onions and sauté till they are golden brown.
6. Add in the pomegranate seed powder, ginger paste, green chillies, coriander powder, Punjabi garam masala and chilli powder.
7. Add the tomato purée and salt and cook till the oil separates from the gravy.
8. Add the kabuli chana and chana dal alongwith the water and chole masala.
9. Cook till the chole is completely dry.
10. Serve hot garnished with paneer.

Try this amazing item, its really tasty and with some "Poori". It is amazing, I hope I have shared with you my Monday night dinner please try it!

"MODI"son Jampacked Garden!

Wow! Seriously, I am speechless after hearing this 75-minute long speech by our honorable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. I affixed to my couch and Times Now, for the complete 75 minutes I did not change my TV channel. I believed that it was going to be the most memorable speech by NaMo, which became true after 75 minutes. He talked about 125 crores people of the nation, and touched every issue, which have concern with us.

He started the speech with "Youth Centric" messages. Before him, every PM use to talk and talk and talk, but they never raised the faith of the youth. But there is something special about NaMo he motivates youth with his speeches and this speech was the same, he said," Desh ki 65% population below 35 years ki hai". It means the 65% population of our nation is below 35 years, it means we have a huge resource of talent, speed and will. Whatever youth of the nation wants to achieve we can, we are not dependent on someone, we can achieve our dreams on our own.

The 21st century belongs to Asia, the people of Asia. Now it is on us how we are going to move it towards India. He also conveyed at Madison Square "Indian People who are living in US have changed the perspective of World about India, we don't play with snakes, we play with the mouse and when we play with it we roll the world around us". The NRIs has made us proud, they have contributed more in foreign nations and have changed the views of native citizens, and they earned respect.

NaMo also said India is rich with democracy, demography dividend and demand. The Lok Shabha 2014 election is the biggest example of democracy, where people of our nation crowned a person as PM of the nation who is from a humble background. Our nation is Youth and in future, the world will need skilled and young people in various fields of modern era. We have a great market; people can purchase whatever they wish so if any MNC wants to taste success, they cannot achieve it without India.

He gave a good example of Gandhi ji, he said that Gandhi ji involved every citizen of our nation against British and made Independence movement as "People Movement". Same as for development it should be a "People Movement", without involvement of citizens; it will not be possible to become a developed nation. Which is true Govt. can make laws, acts etc. However, it is about people who make these laws successful so if we want to be developed, every individual should start contributing in it. It will not be possible without individual efforts.

He talked about every Stalwart who contributed his role in our nation, like Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi ji, Sardar Patel. He also talked about our talent specially we can do the work with less resources and budget as we have done in case of "Mangalyaan". What I have realized about NaMo that he understand what the audience wants, which makes him a dynamic leader of the present era. People love him and they do direct conversation with him, whenever he talks.

Again, I am speechless after seeing such a response for him in US. After Narendra Das Datta, aka Swami Vivekananda, another Narendra made India proud. Madison Square Garden has known for Elvis, Jackson, Ali vs. Frazier, but from now, onward it will know, for Modi too. He inspired 18000 people there, but this number is more than this, the inspired people are in every nation who has watched it. Really today world knows again that India is more than a market, It is a super power and we have a super prime minister named as, Narendra Damodardass Modi.

Vande Matram!

The NaMO Story- Part1

Okay! How should I start this article, I really don’t know, my way may not be appropriate, or you may say I could do better. On 17^th, our Prime minister has completed 64 years of his life. A person who belongs to a poor backward family, who spent his so many days selling tea in railway coaches. A person who worked really hard and cashed every opportunity whichever he got. Right now he’s PM of our nation and perhaps the most popular leader of the present era. He was CM for 13 years of Gujarat, a state which was in debt up to 2001 and right now which is the most prosperous state of our nation.

As I told you he belongs to a poor family, his father use to sell tea at Vadnagar railway station, when he (Modi) was 12 years old he use to help his father in the lunch time. He was an all rounder student in his school, excellent in studies, a good orator, and a good actor. He use to represent his school in many district level declamation competitions. He left his home at the age of 17 years, making a prophecy right by a saint that he will be a politician or he will be a saint in his lifetime. He returned to his home at the age of 19 again. He was associated with Rastriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) since his school time, RSS gave him discipline, punctuality for his lifetime and he got the feeling of patriotism from there. Narendra Modi has a big impact of Swami Vivekananda on his life; Modi ji considers Swami Vivekananda as his role model. He believes in “Karma Yoga”, “Karma yoga” teaches the role of work/karma in the life of man, it also teaches the non necessity to think about the result of any work.

Being a Gujarati he knows how to do business with things, even with those things which are useless. I have read many examples on internet and told by many Guajarati’s that he knows how to do the things. Since October 2013, I am observing him and his moves very closely, and from my experience I can assure NaMo will change the perspective of our nation towards the world. His focus is only and only on development. Job-creation, inflation is on his main agenda.

“Saugandh Mujhe Is Mitti Ki Main Desh Nahi Mitne Doonga”

It’s been 120 days since he sworn in as 16^th PM of our nation. He is doing his work with complete dedication. I hope his hard work and will power, will pay him. I hope our economy will revive and inflation, unemployment will disappear as soon as possible. He is trying to end the barriers between various departments of our system such as environment, aviation, road etc. He got a warm welcome in Japan, which is going to invest in bullet train corridor from Mumbai to Ahmadabad. Japan is a developed nation and that nation is going to invest more in our economy, which will be a big boost in our nation.

It’s a series about NaMo, and his moves. I hope you enjoyed it reading. Visit for more!

HINDI-OUR PRIDE !

14 September, every year we celebrates this date as Hindi Diwas. On this day in 1949 the Constituent Assembly of India had adopted Hindi written in Devnagari script as the Official Language of the Union. Hindi Diwas is celebrated all through the India to show the importance of Hindi language in the country. The Hindi language in India has a long history, and it is the language spoken as a mother tongue and known as the 5th largest language of the world.

This language is the proud of numerous citizens. From J&K to Kerala, From Gujarat to Arunanchal it’s a thing to have pride and honour. Majority of citizens in India especially in Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, U.P., M.P, Bihar, Delhi, and Rajasthan uses Hindi language to communicate with other people. This language is termed as the most stable language in the world because it is originated from Sanskrit and it has the fixed and complete grammar. Whatever rules and norms were used 5000 years ago are still used in 2014, what I mean to say the language which has a stable and fixed grammar, is considered as the best language.

But I have something in my heart which I want to share with you readers. Today, our country is facing a serious situation with Hindi language. Majority of people feels shame which is seen in metropolitan cities. When I was in college I always observed that many people use to give priority to English than Hindi. They feel shame when they had to speak in Hindi. Some people have made a new language “Hinglish” a combination of both languages for their comfort which is a mixer of both, which is wrong. I am not against English but I support Hindi too much. I feel comfortable in Hindi, I express my views better in it so why I need to make myself a victim of a foreign language. A language whose grammar isn’t fixed and which changes every time.

People in our country whose native language isn’t Hindi, speaks English or their local language. It’s good they respect their local languages but they should not protest when government of India tries to make Hindi as official language of the country. It makes me sad when they protest on this issue, it’s a matter to have honour but they start an unnecessary debate against the central government. Hindi is our pride why we make such statements which hurts sentiments of “Hindi lovers”.

We should keep in mind if we want to do development of our intellect, knowledge and country. We can’t do development on the support of a foreign language; we can develop with the support of our native language. Take example of every developed nation whether it’s Japan, China, Russia, France, Germany etc. they developed their nation with the help of their education and their education is based upon their native language not on English. So if India wants to be a super power we have to start our education, our judiciary system, our executive everything in Hindi. It will be helpful to many people to understand science, literature etc. in their own language.

I hope we won’t celebrate Hindi Diwas as a day, but we celebrate it as a day of honour and pride!!

Swami Ji !

                                                

                                               SWAMI VIVEKANANDA,CHICAGO 1893

Dear readers, today I am going to express my views about a stalwart, a stalwart who showed a bigger image of India among the people of the USA, a person who changed the views and opinion of the world about India, the person who got this credit is, named as “Swami Vivekananda”. The real name of Swami Ji was Narendra Vishwanath Datta and was born on 12 January, 1863 in Calcutta, Bengal presidency, British India. He was a saint and he was a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramhans. He was the major figure who introduced the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western countries. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India

He was the founder of the Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Math. He is still remembered for his maiden lecture in Chicago, 1893 with his inspiring speech began with “Sisters and brothers of America....”

“You have to grow from the inside out.

None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own soul.”

He is the role model of many great Indian persons, including our current PM Narendra Modi. He did a lot of work on Hinduism and its philosophies. His theories are on Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Janna Yoga are worth to read. I recommend every citizen of any cast; creed or religion read Karma Yoga. It’s a summary about life and tells to focus on work, which is worship. In India he is treated as patriotic saint and his birthday is celebrated as National Youth Day.

"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached"

I can write a bigger article about Swami Ji but his theory and his persona can’t be explained in an article, you seriously need so many articles to describe the aura of Swami Ji. His life was, dedicated to Hinduism and humanity. His theories which he gave in his lifetime are still true, not one or two but everyone. He was a visionary person, and I respect his philosophies too much.

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

He gave an inspiring lecture on 9/11/1893 in religious parliament in Chicago. After that lecture views of the Western world was, completely changed about India, from a poor and backward country India to a spiritually rich nation. He gave his views on peace and harmony, but on 9/11/2001 few terrorist done opposite of those views in the USA. Striking a plane on world trade centre was seriously a murder of Swami Ji’s views, murdering a no. of innocent people was a crime.

I wish the world could start following Swami Ji’s views and ideology for a better tomorrow, free from terrorism and blood. Enough for now because I have so many things to share about Swami Ji, which I will share one after another. Keep reading!

WHAT J&K SHOULD UNDERSTAND!!!

Today my article is violent, exasperate, somehow sarcastic, full of anger and is going to displease few people. Jammu & Kashmir is facing a serious tragedy nowadays. Rain happened there vigorously for the 7-10 days, and due to which Kashmir valley is flooded completely. Many homes, shops, roads, bridges, hospitals, public places are damaged completely due to this heinous flood. A majority of people have lost their homes, cattle, lands, and their jobs. This lose is really huge and I am not an economist that I will tell you the figure of this gigantic lose. The flood is everywhere what I can see from news media. Indian army, air force and NDRF are working there without any self gain or purpose. They are working with complete honesty and saving the citizens of J&K, they are not considering any caste, creed, religion etc. They are doing their “Dharma”. I seriously respect Indian Govt. and Defence forces for their constant support and immediate decisions.

The defence personnel have carried plane loads of medicine, food, clothes and other essential materials to different parts of Srinagar and other affected areas. They are still trying to rescue people from the rooftops and other flooded houses.

Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag has made a statement that his men will not return to their barracks till the last person is rescued.

This is what I call “Respect”. Respect for Army attitude and dedication.

Now where are Kashmiri protestors and Hurriyat goons who use to pelt stones on these soldiers and always having a “Pro-Pakistan” point of view. They always betray our sentiments by favouring Pakistan over us. They talk to Pak delegation, and pass an ordinance against India in their assembly. They eat ours and have loyalty towards Pakistanis. Now, seriously what’s wrong with them? Why they have such love and affection for Pakistan, and hate for us?

During this tragedy where are they? They call themselves as “Thekedaars” and “Owners” of J&K, where are they now? Why they not talking about this tragedy? Why they don’t help people of J&K now! Why they don’t realise its India and only India who is going to help them, not a terrorist maker country?

Where are Yasin Malik and Gillani, who use to slaughter many Indian citizens just to get some revenge? They use to decoy people of J&K against India. They want referendum in their state; I am seriously asking them where the hell you are? Why don’t you come out and support citizen of J&K?

Whatever is possible by central Govt. they are doing it. But state Govt. is making unnecessary comments, such as J&K CM says “Neither can I stop rain nor I can do it, its natural happening, if I could do anything I would do”. Seriously Mr. Abdullah what have you just said? Are you nuts? Yeah I agree it’s a natural happening but how can you make some comments which are going to hurt people’s sentiments. It’s height of nonsense and indecision.

It’s not a time to play politics, and politicians across the country should not make any statement which hurt the emotions of J&K. around 250 people are dead in this tragedy and many are missing. I hope they will get back to their normal life again. My sentiments are with the citizen of J&K, may the dead rest in peace. I was thinking to make this article, I am sorry if I have hurt someone’s emotions.

WHAT'S WRONG CAPTAIN COOL?

I respect him but today I am really not happy the way he treated his team and his fan’s hope in the England tour.  First of all India lost test series by 3-1 to England.  Being an Indian cricket team fan, I was highly disappointed the way he and his team performed. Okay! Being a team India fan I can agree we have no such conditions here in India, like England is a cold country etc. The ball swings a lot there but now with the help of technology we can create such conditions anywhere, in any cricket academy we have such facility. Whenever any foreign cricket team comes to India they practice really hard and adjust in our climatic conditions so well, so why can’t we? Every player in Indian cricket team earns a handsome and respectable income in one month. So it means there is no shortage of money or resources. Every player can afford anything whatever they desire then what’s wrong? It’s my question to every fan. The question is about their patriotism and integrity. Indian team completed 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th test match in 10 days combine. English team didn’t play for second innings in all three matches and that’s my point to tell you here, what’s wrong with us?

Indian team won ODI series by 3-1, the performance by Indian team was good, I don’t deny it but we have to remember that English team is not a good one day side. We may have won  the series but it also reveals another aspect about team India that we are “jack of all trades” when it comes to play shorter format but when we need to play original format or “pure whites” formats we are no good.

And yesterday India played a T20 game, India got a good start but in the last 5-7 over we lost our path. But the worse thing was our captain MSD, showed a great character of over-confidence in the last over of our inning. Yeah! Seriously he wasted 3 important balls which could change the dimension of the match that time but he didn’t give a single chance to other partner. Some BCCI funded commentators were appreciating him, but seriously what false image they were trying to create among us. I always respect Dhoni, he has worked really hard to achieve this level and stature but he should remember he is the captain of Indian cricket team and we have our hopes from him. Okay! Winning and losing is part of a game but losing by fight is greater than winning by fluke. And at least he should not make unnecessary statements and non-justifiable arguments in every press conference.

“WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY”

Keep in mind Mr. Captain. We expect a good performance from you and your team not a loser’s attitude and loser’s performance. 

TEACHER'S DAY

Today India is celebrating Teacher’s Day, it’s 5^th September. But why do we celebrate this day, I mean is it necessary or is it a liability? No, it’s a day when we honour our teachers who have sacrificed a lot in their life and provided us a foundation of knowledge, on which we make a building of future. It’s a day when we say “Thanks” to our teachers/gurus/guardians who have given us a ocean of knowledge.

Also on this day our first Vice-President and second president Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born, he was a brilliant teacher, mathematician and a noble person. He dedicated his entire life for the welfare of students and he devoted his life to improve the level of education of students.

His father did not want him to learn English or go to school. Instead he wanted him to become a priest. Later his father agreed to send him to a school in Tiruttani itself. He was a brilliant student and went through most of his education on scholarships. He was so popular among his students that when he was leaving to join as a professor in Calcutta he was taken all the way from the Mysore University to the Railway Station in a flower decked carriage pulled by his students!

He was a great person and our teachers too. The first teacher of any child is his/her mother, who sacrificed her life and her comforts just to care her child. A child learns so much from his/her mother, including speaking, walking, cultural values, sacraments etc. So it’s a day to honour our mothers too.

I seriously respected my teachers all my life. Yeah! There may be some exceptions but those exceptions are really rare. I have encountered many good teachers, some teachers nourishment me, some teachers punished me and some made an irremovable image in my mind. Every teacher gave me something which I will hold throughout my life, their dedication, knowledge and affection will always remind me of their presence.

Now today one another incident occurred, which was incredible and which never occurred before. Prime minister of our country, Mr. Narendra Modi addressed or interacted with students throughout the nation. It was one of the kind initiatives which no previous prime minister has done. Students from Leh, Imphal, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh etc. asked questions to our prime minister. Near about 1000 people were present in the Manekshaw Auditorium. As per their views they were feeling like a friend was interacting with them. And as per a viewer it was very interesting thing to know for me that he was very extrovert and frank with all those children. He gave many advices to those students and remembered Dr. Radhakrishnan too. Well I can only say at the end those children should follow Modi ji’s advice and they should respect their elders and teacher to grow as a strong and responsible citizen. Well now I have to end my article here, hope you have enjoyed it reading!

100 DAYS OF NAMONIA

Today NDA government led by Narendra Modi, prime minister of our country completed its 100 days in India. It was 26-May-2014 when Modi ji sworn in as next prime minister of biggest Democracy. Many things are changed since then; these 100 days are not enough to judge the calibre and potential of Mr. Modi. Being the CM of Gujrat from 2002-2014, he has transformed Gujrat allot. Gujrat is the richest state in India, highest in getting investor and highest in revenue making. Many people were trying to create a rude image of Mr. Modi during election and before it. But as Victor Hugo said 

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come”, 

which is correct only God can change someone’s fortune not by handful of people who can’t see someone’s success.

Modi’s best action was on creating a SIT for black money, Supreme Court of India ordered GOI in 2010 for this but UPA didn’t performed it. And due to this effort Supreme Court gave an appraisal for NDA, because new govt. is dedicated to take back black money from foreign banks.

A good budget by Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley was a healthy sign that new govt. is focussed on nation’s development. Many good projects such as 100 smart cities, cleaning Ganga, new IIM-IIT etc. were cherry on the cake. Plus encouraging investors in investing in market and increasing tax slab up to 50,000 more was also a great move, which is my favourite too.

Ending the collegium system in judiciary appointment was another good move, abolishing many old laws which were hindrances in many departments. But still many things have to be done, but this govt. is focusing on development and development, nothing else. Digital India, Jan-Dhan yojana, skilled India, Namami Ganga yojana will be a great game changer.

Government is trying really hard to change the condition of our country, and we can see that effort or indication as GDP in first quarter is 5.7%. It can be increased in next quarter and I believe it will be above 6%.

 But still many leaders and paid media channels are showing that this govt. is failed and nothing good has been done by them. I mean seriously, do you think that all Indian citizens are fool. Majority of people are happy with this govt. but still many people are finding errors at microscopic level. If someone is doing something without any personal benefit, we should respect that. May God help them to overcome their doubts and I wish their view related to Mr. Modi will change soon. I hope what Mr. Modi is seeing for India they could help him with his vision.

 I hope they start believing in 

“Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”,

 and leaving their politics aside. What this new govt. got from previous one is not a thing to discuss now and neither I am going to discuss. But I hope all the faults and mistakes done by UPA could overcome by Modi ji- I wish him good luck and I wish him success in his vision.