Tag: Kannada writing
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summer drink
Summer in my childhood meant variety of coolers as drinks, starting with Panaka, tandai, cashew extract, raagi milk, rose milk. But my favourite has been the Mung bean drink. About a table-spoon of mung bean is ground with a pod of cardamom and a table-spoon of jaggery adding water gradually until it reaches the consistency of milk. If this…
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indian architecture
the temple at sringeri Sringeri temple Nestling in the deep woods of the western ghats, is a the quiet temple town of sringeri. It is not as glamorous as its counterparts at Kollur. But the terrain which is believed to be the terrain of Rishi Rshyashringa who was the facilitator of Janaka‘s puthrakameshtu yajna has divinity in the air.…
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singara– the flower of the arcanut
ಹೂವು ಚೆಲುವೆಲ್ಲ ತಂದೆಂದಿತು ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಹೂವ ಮೂಡಿದ ಚೆಲುವೆ ತಾನೆಂದಿತು ಮಿನುಗು ತಾರೆ ಕಲ್ಪನರ ಮೇಲೆ ಚಿತ್ರಿಸಿದ ಹಾಡು. ತವರು ಮನೆಯಾದ ಉಡುಪಿಯ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಮಠದ ವಠರದಲ್ಲಿ ಅತ್ತೆ ಜಯಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಹೂವು ಕಟ್ಟುತಿದ ನೆನಪು ಅವರನ್ನು ನೋಡಿಯೇ ನಾವು ಕಲಿತದ್ದು. ಈ ಸಾರಿ ಊರಿಗೆ ಹೋದಾಗ ಅನಂತೆಶ್ವರದ ಮಗ್ಗಲ್ಲಲಿ ಹೂವು ಮಾರುವನ ಅಂಗಡಿ, ಅಮ್ಮ ಮತ್ತು ಗೆಳತಿ ಪದ್ಮಶ್ರೀ ಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಮಗ್ನರು ಆದರೆ ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣು ಸೆಳೆದ ಹೂವು ಸಿಂಗಾರ. ಅಥವಾ ಪಿಂಗಾರ. ಇದು ತುಳುನಾಡಅಧ್ಯಂತ ಪೂಜೆಗೆ ವಿಶೇಷ ತುರುಬು ಕಟ್ಟಿ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಂಗಾರ ಹೂವು ಸಿಕ್ಕಿಸಿಕೊಲ್ಲುವುದು ತುಳುನಾಡ ಮೊಕೆದ-ಸಿಂಗಾರಿಯ ಲಕ್ಷಣ. Along the western…
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country roads take me home.
with the golden hue from joga, the gentle flow of Thunga, the iron strength of the sahyadri mountain range, oh! mother of mine is your greatness celebrated. the town i grew up, nestles between the Arabian sea and the western ghats in India. A temple town whose claim to fame is the temple of…
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feast of the fabulous wild men
Today is an unusual funday, the feast of the fabulous wild men day. The online research unanimously agrees, that there are cards to commemorate the occasion, there are gifts, but no one knows what it is all about. No evidence as to who created it and no congressional proclamations are seen. It could be lets…
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