Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bisu Parba of the Shivalli Brahmins.
ಯುಗಾದಿಯ ಶುಭಾಷಯಗಳು. Marrying into a Non coastal family has an advantage of its own, we get to celebrate most festivals twice. Like Yugadi. The Chandramana Yugadi or the Lunar calendar is followed in my in-laws house while in my natal home we follow the solar calendar. The Vaishaka sankrama, heralds the new year for many…
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Karachi Biscuits.
The lock down has been great, I have run out my standard nibbles. So I decided to try out making the Karachi biscuits at home. Essentially I modified the Nankatai recipe. Ingredients: ¾ cup plain flour. ½ cup powdered sugar. ¼ cup custard powder ¼ butter ¼ cup tutti-frutti. 2tbs broken cashew ½ tsp baking…
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pariyaya
Udupi Pariyaya. This was written for last week’s prompt. And I promptly forgot to post it. ಚೆಲುವು ನೋಡಮ್ಮ ಚೆಲುವು ನಮ್ಮ ಉಡುಪಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣನ ಚೆಲುವು. ಒಂದು ಕೈಯಲಿ ಕಡಗೋಲು ಹಿಡಿದು, ಒಂದು ಕೈಯಲಿ ವೆಣುವ ಹಿಡೆದು Udupi the temple town on the west coast of India is the home for lot of things, the famous Mitrasamaj which still maintains its…
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Green Amaranths Vada.
Pachche harive vade. The lockdown has caused a dwindling pantry and a dwindling pantry meals improvising on recipe’s. The kallina-patrode or spicy colocasia roast has always been a favourite of mine. Given my health and pantry conditions it is impossible to make it. Yesterday I saw pacche-harive, or rajgira or dhave-bhaji as it is called…
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World Water Day 2020
It’s a little late in the month. But 22nd March was the world water day. The theme of water day 2020 is water and climate change. 2015 WHO round up shows that 663 million of the population lacks access to safe drinking water. 2016 93%in of the people in Africa have access to…
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The International Day of the Unborn child
International day of the unborn child. Unborn children are those children who have lost their lives to the violence of abortion. In 1999 Pope John Paul II dedicated this injunction with the feast of annunciation which occurs on the 25th of March. It is essentially to celebrate human life. people for dignity of life from…
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