Tag: Plinky Prompt
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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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Janmasthami sweets win over hallowen or easter candies.
celebrating the birth of the Lord Easter candies vs.Halloween candies which one would I choose asks plinky. Neither, I am not much of a candy or any sweet person. Though I do love the sweets we have in India during the festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna. My hometown is the temple town…
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stories from the yore
retelling ancient wisdom Story Teller A television show of my own? well there are so many themes that entice, and so many stories that need to be told, so many issues to be tackled. I would start on folklore that would hand us our heritage bring us back to nature the stories that contain wisdom…
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200 Words, Real Fast
Archery Panchala kanya finally sits on the throne of hastinapura, but at what price? The Mahabharata records stories of the Kuru’s and the Yadu’s.The Queen of the five Kuru princes, Draupadi she was so called because she was the daughter of King Drupada,was married to all the five brothers. The war between her husbands and…
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The bicycle
an flash of romance from 1920 gateway to HERITAGE India in 1920, when bullock carts ruled the traffic, the man who rode a bicycle was considered a yuppie. Imagine, the man a young doctor, withthe british army, who went about from one state to another. Owning a bicylce. was indeed a prize catch. The familiies of…
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