As the Taj burned

The mascot of India’s growing wealth and prosperity and the landmark that set Mumbai’s skyline apart - the Taj hotel at the Gateway of India- burned in front of our eyes.
Flames engulfed its imposing dome, that’s been the background of many a tourists’ pictures and stories on India. In what’s set to be one of the worst terrorist attacks on Indian soil, the night of 26th November, proved to be like a 9/11 for the nation.
The fire spread quickly across the heritage corridor of the Taj Mahal hotel, traditionally large and wide, with a long winding staircase. The center of the dome crumbled as we saw smoke clouds rise about the dome. Suddenly the glow of the flames gave way to dust clouds, splinters and pieces of concrete that blew, every few minutes from the dome’s top. The orange of the fire soon turned into grey clouds against a pitch dark sky.
We watched, we helped, we reached out and we reported as people climbed down in tears. As the ladders went up, there was hope but there was fear about what was really going on inside. We as journalists watched from behind the media vans, zooming in hard, to reach out to every detail.
In the glow of the fire, people in rooms were clinging on to curtains, some on the phones with family, some screaming for help but many were heard by the firemen.

CHATPATE CHOLE

CHATPATE CHHOLE
INGREDIANTS: 2 cup chole (gram) boiled, 1 cup paneer (cut into cubes), 2 onion, 8 flacks garlic, 1inch ginger, 4 tomato, green chilly, 1tbs turmeric powder, ½ tsp cumin seed, ½ tsp black paper, 2 cinaman stick, 4 cloves, 1 cardamom, 1 mace, 1 pinch nutmeg, salt, mustard oil, 1tsp amchoor, 4 bay leaf, ½ tsp mustard seed, ½ cup malai, 2tbs coriander seed, green coriander leaves, 1tbs sugar, 1cup water .
METHOD: 1-Grind onion, ginger, garlic, green chilly, and coriander seed and make a paste. And set aside. 2- Now take tomato add cumin seed, black paper, clove, cinaman stick, mace, nutmeg, cardamom and grind and make tomato paste.
3-Heat the 5tbs oil into a kadai now add bay leaves, mustard seed, and fry a minutes.
4-Add onion paste, turmeric powder, salt and fry till 10 minutes.
5-Add malai and tomato paste, 1tbs sugar and cook till 10 minutes.
6-Now add paneer, amchoor, chole and 1 cup water and cook 10 more minutes.
7-Now garnish with green coriander leaves and serve.

Some formulas to use the winter season

1. For improving memory and strength: Soak five almonds in water over night. Peel them in the morning and grind them to a paste. Mix the paste with 250ml milk, add equal quantity of water, 11 seeds of paper and sugar candy. Boil the mixture till the added water therein gets evaporated. When the mixture cool down to lukewarm, sip it repeating the mantra ‘om’ sri sarasvatyai namah. It improves memory and strength.
2. The brain tonic: Grind the kernel of two walnuts and mix it with milk. Take it repeating the mantra ‘om’ sri sarasvatyai namah. It strength the brain.
3. General tonic: Eating 7 to 5 cashew nuts with honey in the morning with japa of the mantra hrim ramay namah increases physical and mental strength.
4. Pacifying the vata: Eating 5 to 7 cashew nuts fried in ghee with rock salt and pepper with japa of the mantra ‘om vajrahastabhyam namah’ pacifies vata.
5. Appetizer and digestant: Grind dates, ginger, pepper and rock salt in to a chutney. Repeat the mantra om ram 21 times looking at the chutney. Taking this chutney, if properly made and charged with mantra, improves digestion and increases appetite. The chutney is nourishing and strength giving as well.
6. For increasing the height: Children with short height should practice pull-ups and eat 6 leaves of Aegle marmelos and 2-3 seeds of pepper after properly masticating them and remembering the mantra, ‘om gurubhyo namah.’ While chewing leaves and pepper can as well be ground mixing little water.
7. For diabetes: Grind 9 leaves of Aegle marmelos and seeds of pepper mixing a little water. Mix it with water without adding sugar and drink the mixture like a sherbet repeating the mantra om suryay namah. It helps in diabetes.
8. For cracked lips: Put 2 to 4 drops of oil on the navel and apply a little butter mixed with salt on the lips while doing japa of the mantra om hum hanumate namah. It is useful in healing cracked lips.

A LARGE NUMBER OF BIRDS CULLED

More than 3,000 poultry birds were culled on Saturday evening in six villages of Old Malda block in Malda district of West Bengal.
Deputy Director of Animal Resources Department Nikhil Kumar Shit said, "Mostly pet chickens were culled this evening as they are difficult to catch during daytime. These villages close to Satgharia village, the epicentre of bird flu outbreak in the district, were left out."
He said 2,000 more birds have to be culled on Sunday as Poultry Census Report of 2003 estimates the presence of 5,000 pet chickens in the villages.
Earlier, more than 20,000 chickens were culled in 24 villages of Narhatta and Kotwali gram panchayat of English Bazar block in the district where culling and mopping operations were continuing simultaneously.
Observers from Kolkata and NICED in Delhi advised District Magistrate Sridhar Kumar Ghosh on the last day of culling in Malda on Saturday to seek more time to complete killing of birds in the six villages.
Officials said 287 more chicken were killed during mopping operations.
However, a group of women overpowered the members of culling teams and snatched away chicken in Babupur village of the district.
Officials said awareness campaigns on birdflu outbreak and the avian influenza virus continued earlier in the day and culling operations of pet chickens resumed late in the afternoon and went on till night.
The DM said culling was carried out in some villages under Mahispathani gram panchayat area in Old Malda block.
Mopping up operation was carried out in 24 villages under Narhatta and Kotwali gram panchayat of English Bazar Block where culling had been complete, he told PTI.
Asked about media reports of death of large number of birds and chicken in Alinagar area under Bargachi-I gram panchayat of Gajole block, Ghosh said, "No fresh report of any deaths of large number of birds and chicken were reported from this place."

COLOUR COMBINATION AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE

COLOUR COMBINATIONS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCEColour is the property of light rather than that of bodies. It is not an entity , put a sensation to the mind through media of the eye. Colour is a sensation produced on the eye by the rays of decomposed light. White light is a mixture of all natural colours.Primary ColourYellowBlueRed Secondary Colour1. Green2. violet3. OrangeMaking ofGreen = Yellow + BlueViolet = Red +BlueOrange = yellow + RedTertiary Colours1.Citron2. Russety3. OliveMaking ofCitron = Green + OrangeRussety = Orange + VioletOlive = Violet + GreenNeutral ColoursWhiteBlackGreyCool ColoursBlueGreenBlue GreenWarm Colours1. Yellow2. Red3. orange4. VioletOpposite Colours1. Yellow = Violet2. Yellow Green = Red Violet3. Green = Red4. Blue Green = Red Orange5. Blue = Orange6. Blue Violet = Yellow OrangeIntermediate Colours1. Yellow Green2. Blue Green3. Blue Violet4. Red Violet5. Red orange6. Yellow OrangeMaking of Mix two parts + one partsYellow Green = Yellow + Yellow + BlueBlue Green = Blue + Blue + YellowBlue Violet = Blue + Blue + RedRed Violet = Red + Red + BlueRed Orange = Red + Red + YellowYellow Orange = Yellow + Yellow + RedColour HarmonyA colour scheme is said to be in harmony if it gives us pleasure. It is thus, pleasingAnd satisfying in its effect. As beginner you must know the following types of harmonies to utilize them in your colour schemes.Kinds of Harmony of ColoursHarmony of complementry colours :- It can be arranged by using two colours which are directly opposite to each other on your colour wheel, such as yellow and violet, blue and orange, red and green. When you grow in experience and practice you can also use your colour circle for other pair of complementrycolour. Example Yellow orange and Blue violet.2. Harmony of Monochrome :- In such harmonies various tones of a single colour are applied in a study,desine or model to create eye pleasing effects.3. Harmony of analogous colours :- Such harmonies are created by using colours which are of the same basic colours and one colour is common with all the variations used. Example Orange, Red orange, Yellow orange, where red is common in all the three.