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

how do i call my blog

Netra asked me how i called my blog.I didn't know that i was supposed to call it something.
She somehow made me realize that i had orphaned my blog.I hate incompetent parenting.
How can a conceiver do some thing and fail in his basic responsibility of providing the identity.
I am not sure if name accomplishes that,but lack of name gives a stark indication that this entity wasn't meant to be.But still i felt i come from a culture where any newborn is named after sometime.Maybe 3 months.But my blog is still a month old.Now i sit and think what do i call it.

I called it "Begin of Blogging" when i posted the first blog.This is like the pet names many of us carry.My masi's called me Bunty.My atte's didnt bother to call me anything other than papu.A common name most of the kids in karnataka are called.In comparision Bunty was a little special,but latter i found out that there are more than a million buntties in India.So i wanted to give my blog a special name, an unique name a charming name.Like most of the times,i am more at a loss of words than at a loss of thought.

I am very sure that I never wanted to call it" Begin of Blogging",but i ended up doing so.Isn't it like this in most aspects of life that we don't know how to do something and then we are struck with a default state.Most parents take advantage of this very weakness and feed children to religion or maybe feed children with religion.I am happy and thankful to all people who shake my slumber and make me realise that the state i occupy is a default state,which lacks vigor.

Further Jolly told me yesterday that to live a life person need two things.Strong Roots to be grounded and Wide feathers to explore the world.His statement made me realize that i posses an abnormally strong root and a meek wings.I wanted to find a word for this thought but i think one can only paint rather than express in words.

I wanted to call it random strokes of brush,but i know i really don't paint thoughts always.

As the motivation of blogging was to enhance my ability to compose i thought i call it Improviastions.I almost froze this one.Took a look at the preview,i thought it was cool.But from somewhre a lightening of guilt struck me.I thought i have a concept which i can only express in my native language.Even there i cant sound sophisticated but i can be more content.
I tried footprints,impressions,trail,and most of the words from dictionary.com.But i felt nothing cameclose to kandana Hejja.
"Kandana Hejja",I decided to stick to it as this comes from mothertongue.Even though sometimes I feel that I have been unjust to this language, I feel that this language has been very unfair to me.Unfair in the sense that It for me seems more difficult than to my sister or many people i know.I never figured out why but i must also admit that i didnt make much effort to correct the anamolous state.Some day i will do it.But today i know that this is the language that comes to my aide when i want to express someting and am incompetant to do in most languages which i believe to know.Not olly does this term come from Kannada but it also expreses aptly my endeavour.It aptly describes my act of blogging.

KANDANA HEJJA

some random thoughts

Albert Einstein
...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html

Traits of a monk.

...Art to be a monk is to unbase the securities of life from the material possesions,such as wealth,home and children ,is to unbase the interaction with each manifest entity from the common clutters of social standing,recognised rationality and accepted or acknowledged intelligence,is to enable oneself undergo the innumerous transformations in an easy way,is to venture into a anxietyfree and desireless life, and is to posses the trait of rational discrimination and detachment.

Henry Ford.
....“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

organisation as a structure versus individual autonomous entities

this piece of thought isnt fully original,it has been inspired by some reyading which no longer remember
In the globalised world with so much organised functions,one takes for granted the power of an institution.Its assuemd that the functioning of an institution or fulfillment of a mission cant be accomplished without organisation.The latest technological developments have only contributed in making it so permeable that some take this as the cause of globalisation.
But still if we try to asses objectively the potnetial of two seperate constructs,organizational framework and autonomous individual entities,i might be hard to choose which one is the efficient structure in present times.Colonialism and freedom struggle,industrilization and nationalism have proven the success of organisational structures.But the rebuilding after the war has all proven the value of individual autonomy and macrostructure ,as Manohar once read it from some book.The architecture of modern times also demonstrate the same.Rigid structures seem to collapse fast atleast in developed world.But in China which probably is making the first of the few steps we still see the success of organised life.

What i gather from The White Tiger

Role of religion and Gods in reducing the crime in a India,where distribution of wealth is the most uneven.Whole of Africa struggle to understand how to reduce crime,increased policing leads to incrreased crime,but here in India where the perpetuators of the country knitted a wellthought web of gods and sins to curtail god.Rationalizing psychology in India might have a positive effect of creating an oppurtunity for increased productivity.But the risk of increased crime is high.A man who finds things unjust attributes it to god,if we snatch it away from him,his ven is going to be on the so-called innocent people in society,so-called since i am not very sure if they are.So in a way we have to asses if we want to break this conditioning completely to enter the new era.

Expressions that impressed me.
Either or face of a politician,so true but too sarcastic.

somethings i would have liked to do if i didnt do what i did

Being a preacher or a monk,man i know i would be a very succesful one at it.The thing i like the most about that is that it gives amazing perspective to life.
Being a writer,Anthropologist,Historian.I think the kind of impact one can cause is
A singer and a composer
A painter
A radical
A boozer
All of them authentic ,less cultured and more natural.





Taboo thought
At school sometimes i thougt how nice the profession where one is paid for. ....

Further i think today about wealth.Was Rabindranath Tagore richer than Ambani.Probably people might point out a flaw in comparision saying i make the most silly mistake of comparing Apple to Orange.In this view dot know even if all the wealth of Ambani can build good schools,nice cities with gardens, reduce crime against meek, fight opressor by creating cadres, create visionaries like Amartya Sen and Shashi Taroor.Create Shantiniketan where Indira Gandhi, Satyajit Ray were schooled.I am not sure lord what i want,wat i want to become.All i know is that i should have a balanced life which has aspects of everything.Time to wake up and pen a thought,chat with ur Guru and family, be in awe of the cosmic father, still make a nice livelihood by excelling in them and cooking with your family in the evening and guidig ur childen to bed.I dont love a life devored of social activism some struggle for rights of the week.Women liberation, emancipatiory education, fullfilled life

People i adore

Wow man,isnt it something that changes faster than me.
People call me eccentric sometimes,but i think i am more eccentric than they think i am.
Some day when i was young and more cultured in thinking i thougt succesful people are ones who fly,are ones who drive fast cars,who can afford more than me,have acquired more wealth than i thought i could or i did.
With time wealth trancended to richness,i saw wealthy seemed to struggle with some things as being blessed with an ability to think,which i was again conditioned to think was

Succesful are ones who come back when the chips are down,who push


Now i see tham as the ons who have the maximum influence on the life of civilization.Artists arent they the ones who are the poised gazers looking and laughing at the grazers.
I simply adore people who can write precisly what they feel.

I still think if there is gonna be change in my impressions,i am sure there is ging to be.A guy driven by

Some nice places i indulge in

some times i frequent these place less than i think i must,but still
i want to post it to give an impression of being an intellectual freak,i gues there is some fuc***g thrill in that,

http://www.pulitzer.org/awards

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

nice corners i have discovered
http://www.thesecondcircle.net/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.heartquotes.net/Einstein.html/

Some nice
http://www.suketumehta.com/


Books i would read if i werent as lazy as i am

The White tiger....Arvind Adiga

Leadership

Leadership is an art to believe in the ability to surmount the unsormountable,
An art to indulge in possibility detaching from the consequences,
An art to visualize not to dream,
An to feel the pulse of things not to ged overwawed by them,
An art to discern and distinguish,
An art to cope with defeat an failure,
An art to push people just so hard that the like the touch and not causea bruise,
An uncanny ability to defy the cliches
An ability to enjoy the fight and progress and not be deflated relishing the state
Its a state of mind a color of thought,each one of us has all the four ingredients in us.
Visionary,Leader,Sustainer,and follower.
How is this acquired,lineage or acquired or genetic or samskara.
Some schools promise to create the leaders of the millinieum.But all looked to be washed by the social current.If we look at the number of people coming from top institues still letting things happen like the mortage i doubt if all are truly.But it still takes some ability to do so.

India's Acheivements and Challenges as i understand

A country

some things i put together,need to sort it out wid a frien of mine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Smriti


i was told knowledge of learnings were destroyed for a civilization.
This led to degeneration of civilization.

2nd reason of impact was 1911 charter by ....

Coping issues have be the shif from Socialism to the political divergent view.

Nationalisation and closed economy to developed where we want to go?

Collection of nice songs

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=nothing+else+matters&emb=0&aq=0&oq=nothing#q=one%20metallica%20&emb=0

http://www.metrolyrics.com/one-lyrics-metallica.html


http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=QTahrYXCChI

http://www.lyrics007.com/R.%20Kelly%20Lyrics/I%20Believe%20I%20Can%20Fly%20(The%20Corrected%20Version)%20Lyrics.html




http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=AjqybPdc3Pc

Eternal Victory

[Life without having to cope with failure]
I wonder if there ever is a
place where skies are always blue
land where sun is never defeated by clouds
state where people are unaware of defeat
I reconcile to say may be bliss exists in ignorance

[Evading failure]
Life like weather,as my friend once told me ,can get real boring without defeats.The victory in life is to cope with defeats and learn from mistakes.

[what one learns from failure]
When people falter,some think they fail while some find a new vigor.
Isn't it amazing that we all react so diffrently to same things.Also we react diffrently to
same things at diffrent instances.Some find a teacher in failure,as to teach them the new direction they need to take,and go on and put up a fight. You live and play for yourself.
Is there a way to steel oneself from the adverse effects of failure or the aftermath of the storm.
I guess a through understanding of oneself helps a bit in this regard.I guess dynamism is the essence in the understanding.Questiioning is the key.You might do the same set of things again and fail once but succede the next time around.Is there a change in the state of mind when you approach the act.

Schooling in Vernacular

I beleive that schooling in vernacular is a boon granted to very few indians, but we all can change the vernacular for our future generation.This would be a kind of sin as we will subject them to our descision today but wouldnt we be just in helping them not being lost like us.Making it easy for them to choose the literature,music and medium of authentic expression as early aspossible.

Native language.Is this the language one is schooled in or the one in which one needs to be schooled in.How important is a language for expression.Do we all call ourselves civilized because we think we can speak.Did we also negotiate when we didn't speak.In one view i guess we all will be justified to dismiss language as trivial sh**.I guess, this is justified as far as our understanding of language is limited to the medium of expression.When we start to extend the scope of language as a modus of interaction,language as a source of information,language as a refridgrator of thoughts i guess we all agree that it merits more than a glance which makes it feel ignored.
On the other hand blowing it beyond requirement has its own fallacies.The art in this regard, as in many aspects of life,is to find a balance.

An art of living in Present

Some times he likes to blabber and sometimes he likes to listen.
Othertimes he's as restless as me, leaving me to wonder if he is me.
We have grown so together that seldom do i draw lines between us.
I still havent known how he and me should be.

i slowly try to understand how i should be,
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=nothing+else+matters&emb=0&aq=0&oq=nothing+#
aren't these guys gods who knew it all.

Did they learn it by reading many books or by listening to many wise sayings about how to live.How lucid and effective is their method of propagation of what to care for and what not to.How well did they maneuver and were moulded.I always wonder if i know anything about this at all.To live in the present and ideate on the SupremeConsciousness was what i am cultured to do.I guess i do and sometimes am also convinced that its but natural. Soometimes i start from scratch.Why can't i be blessed with ignorance.I guess i know why i am not blessed.Because i dont want to be lessed.I like to think.Rather i like to think that i think.I should somehow find a way out.Probably this is a great deterrent not to live in the present as my mental occupation is either of present or of past.
I guess, i am affected too much by the people who surround me. have thought me to be be consequential.I need to