Happy Sankrathi

Hi All,

Wish you and your family a Happy Makar Sankrathi. Hope this festival of harvest brings success and prosperity to all.

Yellu-Bella

Rangoli

Bhogi

M-seal work on small pots

Rangoli

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Happy Deepvali

Hi all,

Wishing you all a very Happy and prosperous Deepvali

Some of my old posts on Deepavali : Happy Deepvali, Colours of Deepvali

1st anniversary of my blog

Hi everyone!

It's my blog's first year birthday!

Today is first day of deepavali i.e dhan traodashi exactly this day of last year I started blogging....can’t imagine I’ve been blogging here for one year. Blogging helped me to explore many talents within me and share many things with my readers.

As my son is taking all my time, number of posts are reducing. Hope I will keep going and will post some more in coming days....

Thanks to my all readers whoever you are!

A Bundle of Joy

Hi to all...

I have a news to share with you all, a sweet little one joined our home we are so excited about our first baby... It's a baby boy arrived on August 12th at 11:48 AM. I caught up in too many things unable to share, soon after baby's arrival.
It is so hard to believe that our sweet baby is a whole one month old today. These days have just flown by.....we both feel so blessed to have him in our lives and couldn't imagine life without him. In our eyes he is just perfect.

I'm in my own little world with my little wonder....it may take some time to get back to me for blogging...
Thanks for your all blessings and wishes.


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Earth Hour 2010

Hi Everyone,

This Saturday (27-March), the symbols of our civilization, sky raising buildings, iconic monuments and landmarks from India to Australia to USA to Europe, will stand in darkness, to help bring to light one of the biggest challenges of our generation-- Climate Change.

The 'Earth Hour' that began as a show of solidarity against climate change has today become a global movement. It brings together a whole generation of humankind, from across the world and across all walks of life, in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common - our planet. It is a call to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the way towards a sustainable future.

This year over a billions people from over 90 countries and 900 cities will come together to mark the Earth Hour.

Some of you may be thinking “who cares, what difference is one hour going to make?” Well, in words, tons, literally tons of coal won't be burned, tons of water won't be used for cooling, and tons of emissions won't be released.

We request you to please participate in it. All you need to do is switch of lights/TV/AC/FAN in your houses for one hour on 27-March-2010 at 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm. Please set reminders in you mobile and participate in this noble cause.

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Happy Ugadi

Hi All,

Wishing you all happy and prosperous Ugadi.

Ugadi is a new year and first day of the Hindu calender and also first day of chitra masa (spring season). This year is called Vikrutinama samvathsara.

We prepare today Bevu-Bella and as a prasada and distribute to all. Bevu is neem leaves which is bitter and bella is Jaggery which is sweet, represents joy and sorrow of life.

Let us pray that we gain enough strength to accept a low and high, joy and sorrow of life with a equability.

At north-karnataka we prepare Bevu-Bella in 2 methods one is in dry form and another one liquid form. Dry one will have a bevu (neem's tender fresh flowers) and bella, and dry fruits.

Liquid form will have a fresh fruits(mainly grapes and musk melon), bevu, bella, dry fruits, extracted water from tamarind, and grated raw mango and finally fine powder of fried gram. It will be a great and tasty drink.

May god bless all with peace and success this ugadi and all through out the year.

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ITC SRA Sangeet Sammelan 2010

Hi Friends,

The ITC Sangeet Research Academy (SRA) is back this year in city with 2 days weekend program, 13th and 14th at Chowdiah Memorial Hall at 5 pm. Free passes are available at venue.

Day 1 performance by vocalists Samarth Nagarakar, Ulhas kashalkar and sitharist Shahid Parvez.

Day 2 of the festival by vocalists Arun Bhaduri, Bombay Jayshree and flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia.

ITC SRA established with the objective preserving and promoting Hindustani classical music. Me and my husband often visit ITC SRA website as it gives a lots of information about raagas.

I have collected passes for 2 days festival. Hope to see few of you their over the weekend.

Happy weekend ahead!

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Sun-dried Crispies

Hot summer days started, when summer comes I remember my summer vacations of childhood. We use to visit grand parents house, its family gathering of aunts, uncles, cousins...it was time of reunion of family.

We use to have a lots of fun, grandma and aunts use to cook variety of foods and also they use to prepare lots of varieties of sun-dried items and pickles (specially mango pickle). I remember we all cousins and kids use to help them and use to enjoy a tasting them first.

In sweet memories of those days last week i prepared a some sun-dried foods and sharing here with you all hope you all will enjoy reading this post.

Akki sandagi (in kannada) akki means rice and sandagi I don't know what it calls in english and we can call it chips.

Ingredients for this are : Hing (asafoetida), salt, rice flour, (Rice should be soaked in water for one day, drain the water completely and dry it inside a house(not to sun) for 2 days, make fine powder out of it). As to get a rice flour it needs 4 days..so here i tried with a idly rava (my aunty's idea) it came out very well and its easy anybody can make this.

Akki Sandagi

Sun drying

Pop rice we call in kannada battada aralu bathha means paddy. Following picture is a pop rice downloaded from internet. Now a days its widely used in breakfast cereal and snacks.
Pop rice sandagi : Unfortunately i don't have snaps of making it (no pictures...totally forgot!).

Ingredients for this are :White pumpkin ( in kannada Booda kumbalkayi ) chopped in a small pieces, grinded paste of salt hing and green chillies (without water), lemon juice, and pop rice.

Sun-dried Pop rice sandagi

Sun-dried green chillies : Following are the fresh green chillies stuffed with a salt and hing, inside photo is a chillies after sun dried for 3 to 5 days it will turn in to whitish colour.

Ingredients : Fresh green chillies, salt, hing, jeera, and sabudana or sago(optional).

Method : Make a slit on chilly carefully so that you can stuff in it.

For stuffing make powder of salt, fenugreek seeds(8-9 pieces) jeera, and I used crushed sago as after frying in oil it gives pearl look and also I personally love sago (in kannada sabudana ) a whole grain we Indians use in many dishes like kichadi and payasam.

Keep it for drying for 4 to 5 days. This tasty crispy stuffed chillies we can use for curd rice, and also i use this for seasoning buttermilk and sometimes to salads.

Note: Cover a drying tray with a muslin white cloth while drying to avoid dust, insects and birds.

To avoid a moisture store it in air-tight container.

Sun dried crispies are ready to use, fry it in oil. These will be more tasty when you eat in rainy days... after 2 months :D

Hope you liked this. Comments please :)

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Back after a long Gap...

Hi Everyone!

Sorry for the long absence without notice. Its been more then a month since I posted. Lot of things happened.....main reason is my health. I think i settled down and back with routine....and blogging.

I started going again to my music classes from this week, and stopped with a heavy heart my painting classes as its quite far from my place.

I will come up with a more posts in coming days...

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Happy new year 2010

Hi All,

Wishing you all happy and successful new year 2010!

Vacation Time

Hi All,

I'm taking break ......because its a vacation time and have some travel plans....

will be back with new posts in new year......

Merry Christmas and Happy new year to All.

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Bengaluru Habba

Hi All,

Happy Monday.

7th edition of Bengaluru Habba is back in the city.

'Habba' in Kannada means 'Festival'. Dec 11 to 20th this three-week-long festival promises to offer everyone an exciting cultural experience.

The Habba is promoted by Artists Foundation for Arts (AFFA), formed in 2002, to bring performing arts to the public. Events will include music, dance, film panorama, street theatre, adventure sports, a golf tournament, tennis ball cricket tournament, pulling race, vintage car rally. Apart from art, the Haba has eat outs, shopping and also film elements.

This year the Habba will have more than 50 performances in various parts of the city including Palace Grounds, Cubbon Park, Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Seva Sadan and even BBMP Parks. Public can watch the events for free.

Luckily I got VIP passes for Sri Praveen Godkhindi, Pt. Jasaraj, Pt. Balamuralikrishna programmes at Chowdiah memorial hall.

Try to collect passes and enjoy the habba.

http://bengaluruhabba.co.in/2009/ more details and event calender.

It's my Birthday!

Hi All,

Today 29 November it's my birthday, i won't celebrate with cake, parents use to take me to temple and after praying to god, use to take a blessings from parents and elders of home, and gifts and wishes from brothers and freinds.

So now it's time to get a blessings from elders and good wishes from friends and loved ones...... and ha...gifts from hubby ;-)

God, I thank You for this day, help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day.

Parents, Brother, Thank you for your love and care, you're dear.

Thanks to my hubby, I'm glad I married you. Thanks for your love and support.

Thanks to my friends who are always with me for all my good and bad times. Thank you for your friendship and love. Happiness is mine because of you all.

Finally thanks to all vistors of my blog, I don't know who are all visiting and how many are visiting, but my hit counter reached more then hunderds with in short time. Thanks for your visit and support.

I'm happy, i had wonderful years......

future years ahead..............i'm looking forwad to.... with hope.

Thank you for visiting!!

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.- Abraham Lincoln

Smile 4 Smile ...Good Cause

Hello All,

Smile 4 smile is charity cause, done last week at my husband's company in collabration with NGOs a fund rising event held for constructing library for some school.

My husband had a wonderful opportunity to take part in this show with my few clay paintings. All my paintings sold off. I want to thank you all, the money went for charity. Its awesome to recieve a good comments and kind wishes from you all.

Thanks to my hubby for making my first paintings part of it, this made me to focus on my creativity and bulid a new skills.

My all experiment work went for good cause and i will start collecting some more and paint in my free time.

Thank you for appreciating my work :D

Eat Healthy Live Better

Today Nov. 14th is World Diabetes Day – a day to think why India has become the diabetic capital of the world. Its all because rapidly changing imbalanced dietary habits, and life style both in rural and urban areas.

Let's we all put effort to prevent diabetes by adopting a healthy lifestyle of eating multigrain, fiber rich food and avoiding excess fried fatty foods, sweets and starches, and maintain a normal weight with a regular exrecise routine can prevent or postpone the diabetes.

Today Nov. 14th Children's Day is to celebrate "childhood". Children are loved by one and all. They win over our hearts with their angelic eyes and innocent smiles. It makes one realise that maybe that’s the way God wanted us to be. Childerns are full of energy and, and I strongly feel we learn lots of things from kids.

Number of childerns suffering from diabetes has incresed a lot in recent years so mothers got biggest challenge to maintain good food habit for child with proper diet plan.

Lets we hope on this childern's day all childerns will get a proper education, and nutritious food, so we can build a better and healthy society.

Everyone wants to go back to childhood that wonderfull world............Be a child......

Happy Childern's Day.

Book Fest

Last weekend I made couple of trip to craft shop, and brought a many crafty things...and clay materials. Whole week I done lots of painting on clay, and I learned flower making and warli painting from E-book.

I will share one by one in my coming posts.

This weekend we are going for most awaited book show, came again this year at palace ground, last year we brought all my hubby's favourite authors Poornachandra Tejasavi, S L Bhyrappa, books. And also we brought many Old kannada movie CDs and DVDs.

This time, we already made list of books we want to buy and as I am going crafty these days I want to buy some of painting and crafts books too, I hope you all also planning your weekend to 'Book fest' at palace grounds, as sunday 15th is the last day.

Happy weekend.

Colours of Deepavali

Hi Friends,

I hope all of you had great festival weekend, and back to normal routine. Here I want to share with you all, colours and shades of deepavali through beautiful photographs.

This is Laxmi pooja my freind did at US. First I want to share pooja snaps which i did, as this image I liked a most so iam sharing with you all.

Floating Diyas Rangolies drawn by my cousine sister

First I decided to post all the recipies of these snaks which I prepared for festival, later changed my mind and took help from picasa and made this following photo.Hope you like this. can you name the snaks of following......?? hmm....let me do....chakkali, avalakki, kala-jamunu, shankarapoli, besan oondi, obbattu( holige), dry-jamunu, assoerted sweets box gifted by freind.

Delicious food of deepavali Hanging ( in kannada Akasha butti)

Crackers (Flower pot)

Hope you enjoyed this post :-)

Happy Deepavali

Hi Everybody,


This is my first post in my blog, so i'm nervous and excited at same time. I started blogging to share my (random) thoughts and also about my hobbies.

Friends it's deepavali time, we all know Deepavali is the festival of Lights. The word 'Deepavali' is made up of two simple words. 'Deepa' means light and 'Avali' means a row. Hence 'Deepavali' means a row of lights. I just love this festival as it's full colourful lights, crackers, diyas, and hangings (we call in kannada 'akasha butti'), rangolies, decorations.

Today is first day of deepavali is Dhan trayodashi dhan means wealth, people buy lots of precious things gold, cars, etc., you might be heard in news today in a single day 25,000 cars sold out. 2nd day of deepavali is naraka chatrudashi this is a day lord Krishna killed demon Narakasura. Third day is Amavase day of laxmi pooja. Fourth day is Bali Padyami this is the day of victory of a Vamana (Lord Vishnu's avathara) on king bali. Fifth day is Bidagi (in north karanataka we call this akkana bidagi akka in kannada elder sister ) the day to honour a brother-sister relationship.

"Wish you all a happy and prosperous Deepavali"

As its a diwali time i'm busy in cleaning house, shopping,preparing delicious snaks for festival...... will be back soon with some more posts.

Till then Happy Diwali.......& Happy blogging!!!