Cooking Receipes

Palak Pasta
Ingredients for palak

1 tsp Musturd seed
1 tsp cumin seed
2 green chilli / 1 red chilli / some red chilli powder
1 paprika
1 pc of ginger
1 tsp dhaniya (tasteless mama masala)
1 tsp garam masala (khichri )
1tsp basilikum leaves
150 ml tomato puree
-->Please dont add oninion or garlic ,it only spoils the taste
-->Keep all the ingredients ready,as you will be challenged for time when oil is hot
Method to cook pasta.
Heat 5 tsp of oil in a pan with a single seed of musturd in the pan.When the oil hot enough that you see the single mustard seed spluttering,add the chopped green chilli ,dont panic when it starts to splutter.In the next 2 mins you have to grate the ginger to the pan,add a small tsp of dhaniya,add small tsp of garam masala,add 1 tsp of basilikum and stirr the stuff in the pan to distribute the masala evenly in the oil.The art is not to let the masala burn or stick to the pan but only hot enough to dissolve the aroma in the oil.When the process is on the edge,ie when you see that the stuff starts to burn,add 150ml of tomato puree or 2-3 raw tomatoes.Stirr continously to avoid the stuff from sticking to the pan.If you feel the need,reduce the temp of the stove.after the masla mixes well into the tomato puree and the tomato puree seems a little fried.Add 600 gms of palak to the pan and continue to stirr regularly.From now on u are responsible not to allow the palak to stick to the pan.Two ways to avoid it,if you have enough time cook the palak in low flame till it boils else stirr continously with high flame.I would recommend to add salt in the end according to taste.Be aware that the rham palak has salt in it.

cooking pasta.

Ingredients
500 gms Pasta
1.5 L water in a vessel
1 tsp salt according to taste

method.
Boil 1.5 lts of water,and add 500 gms of pasta to it.Add salt according to taste.Remember,italians recommend to put pasta to boiling water.After cooking the pasta for 15/20 mins, rinse the water from pasta.Pour some cold water through the pasta after rinseing.

Serve pasta and palak with some salat and you have a wonderful delicacy.

disclaimer:if you didnt like the taste of the stuff that comes out,please dont hold me alone as responsible.
Copyright: Ankur Gupta and Tapan Vikas.Feel free to distribute under the norms of Open Licence.

Books i read in 2009

I munch The Man who knew Infinity & Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen.
Apart from this i am on a systematic diet of Ananda Vachanamrtam after doing Idea and Idealogy and Anand Sutram.The seminar notes and the cheap literature not to be counted.

My impressions about Argumentative Indian.
An amazing book which not only defines your thought about the topic but also defines the kind of impact a book can have on your thinking and subsequently on your life.I am through with 5 sets of essays.The first part mainly about religion and culture in India.


The part i completed just now was Sen's essays on Tagore.Rabindranath Tagore, all my impressions about him were from the nationalist's perspective.Whenever i occupied the debate chair,i had a very shallow view of Tagore.As a guy who philosophised in thin air being oblivious to the reality.I had him fit into the old image of poet that i had cheerfully built in.Offlate the my notion of poets or artists as meek dreamers has been moulded greatly.But still my notions of Rabindranath Tagore needed to be moulded greatly.Contrast of Tagore and Gandhian views on celibacy and sex was where i started to read the chapter.In a sense this essay captures a lot about the personality.I always say people not to limit but for sure speak out their impression about things.In this light Tagore for me is a weak strong man with high intellectual capacity.A poet with charm and original insight.In the Anandamarga view wasnt he using great amoutn of the ability of the brain.He disintegrated into the vast sublime.He always was able to dismiss notions from words and rational.He saw humanism as a step towards perfection not he nationalism.A true champion Tagore but nevertheless a great orater is Amarty Sen
I leave the set 5 of the essays with a completely diffrent notion about Tagore,this notion is founded on both perspectives and stronger and deeper than the earlier one.

Also in between,i did The Munich Mannequins by Slviya Plath where she talks about perfection and describes Munich as the Morgue between Paris and Rome.It makes a great reading to demonstrate the issues which the modern American women confront.

Notions about Yoga

Well i decided to spit some thoughts or scrible some words on the blank board so that i some day use this as formative notions or prpagatory idea.I wanted to write to you a few thoughts about yoga in particular and yoga research in particular.My motivation for such a formation is because i am exposed to many things through Ananda Marga.But i am very sure this was required since other forms of learning and research have been crippled by some events in my countries past.Apart from the impact colonial occupation had on

I talk in particular about asana and pranayama including yogic diet. I think before i dwell in detail about the above mentioned topics and my thoughts,i would give a brief introduction about myself. I am Tapan Vikas, currently working in munich.I come from a small village in Karnataka near Sringeri. I like you am an engineer,but probably this is where the similarities end.I am an eager enthusiast in explorartion and inqusitiveness.I did my bachelors in Electronics and communication from SJCE mysore and further went on to pursue my masters in VLSI from IIT Delhi.I am no god men and trying to find my way away from religion.Can we work for the research of Today i sit back
to recollect my thoughts about yoga.Currently i am reading Bhagavatgita and my notion of this book is that it is a book of ethics and philosophy.
I also see a mention of yoga in there.Recollecting my notions about yoga,i remember many names of persons and organisations. P.R Sarkar,
Ravi Shankar,Aurobindo, many god men and also as many organisations.I first of all have a great intrest in discussing your views on the topic.
It is true that we are as a sciety undergoing a paradigm shift in the way we learn.After reading aurgumentative indian from Amartya Sen i am more
inclined to say that we are a victim of Mills history and Macualy policy.Macualy policy basically challenged our basic research and propagation model in india.
It put the notion of Institutes of higher learning as opposed to saffron.I guess and believe that you are not the one who holds such notion but if you do hold such a notion
we still can take it as a minor digression from our main point.What i dont like to see is only godmen speaking about Yoga.So in my

Two ends of the spectrum

Two ends of thought propagation are following and Intellectual jugglery or imposition and non-concern.Is there a line in between the two.A rationally aligned one.Whose duty is it to arrive upon one.I think Application of Nicomacheaen ethics for the problem is called for.For sure,if thought propagation is required at all for human existence is a very fundamental question but is outside the scope of the essay.Further Kants naive view about enlightenment as religious emancipation does contain certain reason if resolved orthogonally can be applied to the problem

Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgah would have two roles.Creating an equal platform like a king without favoring any particular teaching.As well as participating in the refinement of the ideas.

This for me is a direct understanding of the goal, to make seminars universally accepting.Contacting the chair of Philisophy not only with objective of propagation but also with the goal of questioning.





In my usual drifting indiscipline,i just try to picture Kants life.How it might have been.A person who had alternate view on mostly the very basics of human knowledge evelution,constitution of matter, and what not.This for sure makes me feel that people around him perceived him as an eccentric.So the thought in isolation from the person is a very important step for nature to survive.

How fast and effective Ananda Marga Seminars are?

Acceptance is an virtue or Aristotealian ethic.The faster we accept and rationally we evaluate so will AM be established.It is not my concern nor matter to be associated with the end state.I want to be instrumental in the cause in a very rational way.I will hate myselfeven more for being a non-doer than for being a wrong doer.



Some USP'S and ideas,for Kants centernary and celebrations.







Refrences

Aristole's ethics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichomachean_Ethics



Kants Reasoning http://philosophic.li/kant/what_is_enlightenment/



Kants Biography http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-development/

religious sanitization

Porst to the wellbeing of Srilankan cricketers,our beloved Murali and Sanga

the ever mystifying endis and so many more who have always evoked sportsmanlike competation but soft corner on the personnel front.

After 2 encounters in last week and a discussion with an Atheist,i come to following impressions.

God and religion and things in erspective.

my weakness and evoluton and food habits as trivial,

awakening consciousness

Venturing into New year.

At this time i principally like to do two things try to look at the past year and have a little outlook for the next.Both of them are distorted by my perspective.Looking at the past is a real challange.It has a great oppurtunity concealed to learn from it but tends also to leave a sort of remanant of the times.I normally handle this by ignoring or suppressiong this.But this year i simply have learnt that may be i have to handle it a little diffrently.
I and My companion,http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=eyes+of+the+tiger+rocky+&emb=1&aq=0#, are currently pondering about the color i attribute to the past year.I think the sound and the words of the song makes more justice to the mood.I have an wierd urge this day,that is to face the dawn of the new year.Just came back from Nockerberg with a kind of empty fulfilled feeling.
Lemme thinka little about the resolutions for the new year,i would like to make and stick by it.But so many times i just have failed to execute it.But still a ritual of making one is no less satisfying.Yatishwaranand Dada told me to be a little disciplined.I didnt nor do understand what exactly he meant.Like so many hints that i seem to take and interprete i wish to also do this one more diligently this time around.I have no preset goal in my mind.But the end is to walk through the path like cosmic will intends me to.
I think last year is a great year for many reasons.I will dwell into it when i am sure of many things.I would term the year as the year of sprouting.This one was more a sort of organic sprouting,i just react to things without trying to control them.This has been so unlike me but i also like to be unlike me.I think i tried to loose my religion. Ihttp://video.google.com/videosearch?q=losing%20my%20religion%20rem%20&emb=1#
On my spritual aspect i think i have made some small steps.

courage,
sorry for keeping this incomplete,thats me,i go away with a feeling,i have hard time coping.

Provocations as stimulant to thought

Transgression,Provokation,rebellion are far more potent than an absolute state of knowledge.


I spoke to Georg,who is a dramatist and stage actor, yesterday and realized a new perspective to things.He wasnt very generous in the amount of words he spent to bring out the thought.He resembled a painter with limited means making most of colors he has.I guess language -English- was the reason,how epxressive or inexpressive a person is made due to an affliance to a native language.Bewilderment and scorn,


The crux of the conversation i carry out of the interaction was provocations being a norm.


How strong is provocation when it still is one.People need to be provoked.This crystalizes the mist.It condenses the thought.It vaporises the irrelavants.Dramatics,Poetry





Bernhard Shaw,Kuvempu,a succesful artist has to be surrounded by sharp critic.


I start writing not to be succesful,but for enjoyment.I will someda





Coming back Achim made a small but very relevant coment about possesing and letting go of things.The effort for both is same since it is a selfregulating system.since the element common in both acts is the same individual so it is an individual inherant trait.






Rebellion as a norm