Meena Mangalathil:

          This recipe is usually found in the high ranges of Kerala especially Idukki. In every small hotels they serve this for evening snack. The climate usually here is cool and the kids are always hungry, especially after school. So this recipe when served hot is very tasty and very filling too. Children would love it. Supplies :-  Mixing Bowl A Mixing Bowl   Spoon A rolling pin and surface to roll out pathiris A sieve spatula to flip and drain Sauce pan Deep fry pan   Sieve Spatula    Sauce Pan   Deep Fry Pan    Ingredients :- 1.    All purpose flour (Maida)        - 2 cups 2.    Semolina (Rawa)                  - 1 cup 3.    Salt                                   - a pinch 4.    Sugar                                   - 2 tsp 5.    Big Cumin seed (Jeera)         - 1tsp 6.    Boiled water                          - 3 cups 7.    Oil                                      - for frying Preparation:- Mix the first five ingredients in t

" Go Forth And Multiply! " That's what the human population has successfully been doing for thousands and thousands of years, expanding, exploring, migrating, conquering, utilizing, evolving, civilizing, industrializing, and now, destroying the very land upon which we live.   Respected Teachers And My Dear Friends             I would like to speak a few words on Population. As Prof Stephen Hawking put it, In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.             The world’s population is now more than 6.8 billion and continues to grow by 83 million people per year. During the last half-century, the world’s population more than doubled. The magnitude of this increase will be felt in all aspects of life. It will further stress already strained ecological systems and worsen pove

Hundreds Of Dewdrops To Greet The Dawn, Hundreds Of Bees In The Purple Clover, Hundreds Of Butterflies On The Lawn, But Only One Mother In   The Wide World Over. Honourable Teachers And My Dear Friends.           I’m going to speak a few words about “My Mother”. My mother is the best person on earth. She wakes up early in the morning and sends a silent prayer to God for the prosperity of the family. She, without a grudge works from dawn to dusk for the family. She wakes me up with her soft hands ruffling my hair and kissing my forehead. She carries me to the kitchen for my ritual coffee. I sit on her lap and she talks to me softly even though she has a thousand and one odd jobs. This is how she readies me to face the world.            She helps me in my studies and also plays with me. She dances with me taking away my inhibitions. She encourages me at every point.   She always has a ear for me. I can ask her anything even the moon from the pitch black sky and I’m sure she won

            Today I watched a Bollywood movie in which the hero is aware of his short life, other than his mother no one is aware of it. But this movie was so sad that I too was crying with the heroine. But the best part is, the hero   with his secret kept safely in his heart, works hard to bring smile to others by making them   happy by his words, presence, help, etc.. And he was successful in it and when he died he was more happier and peaceful , than he would be had he had a long life. When incidents like this happen we think. Isn’t it? Of What?               Of our lives, of course! What are we doing with our lives? Are we happy with our lives? Or have we reached our goal? We are always running and running - a race with no end. Striving for something which we cannot grasp and in the end we are always angry, tensed, blaming others for our own short comings.   The funny part is, we try our level best until we get it, that’s for sure, stamping without care all the loving hearts that h

1.     Old age homes are meant for senior citizens who are unable to stay with their families or are destitute. These old age homes have special medical facilities for senior citizens such as mobile health care systems, ambulances, nurses and provision of well-balanced meals. So they can live a healthy life. 2.     Good services and good behaviour of the staff, food being   palatable and wholesome are the main advantage of old age homes. 3.     Apart from food, shelter and medical amenities, old age homes also provide yoga classes to senior citizens. Old age homes also provide access to telephones and other forms of communication so that residents may keep in touch with their loved ones. 4.     The entertainment and library facilities are also available for the sole purpose of the senior citizens. 5.     For older people who have nowhere to go and no one to support them, old age homes provide a safe haven. These homes also create a family like atmosphere among the residents. Senior ci

      One day an old man came to our home after the Sunday mass. I usually see him only during Sundays when he comes to receive his Holy Communion with a walking stick. So, when he came with my youngest son, I didn’t have any odd feeling of an outside person. We treated him as we would our grand parent, with breakfast and lots of talking. Then he came to the point – the reason for his visit. He needed some money.         He is the father of a son who owns lot of land outside state but he is bankrupt and unable to look after his old parents and letting them live alone with their own income. He doesn’t even bother to visit his old parents.         So, the old man and his wife lives with the money he makes by selling rosaries and scapulars, which is not much. His wife is partially paralysed and he is also a sick man. They are totally alone at home. He looks after his wife. Feeds her, cleans her, etc.. Every Sunday, the priest of the church gives him Rs. 50/-. But on that Sunday, he didn’

COCHIN-KODANADU-MUNNAR-PERIYAR-KUMARAKOM-ALLEPPEY(HOUSE BOAT)-KOVALAM-KANYAKUMARI-CHENNAI Day – 1 : Cochin (Kochi) On arrival at the Airport   in Cochin, you will be met (if you have booked a travel agent  or else get yourself a car or there are metro buses from airport to Fort Kochi it'd be much moe cheaper and more lxurious ) and transferred to Hotel at Kochi which has preserved its history well and presents a vivid panorama of a time when traders and warriors landed on here shore. Start your Kerala tour at the Mattancherry Palace. From Palace walk along the Jew Street to Jewish Synagogue. With St.Francis Church, Santa Cruze Cathedral and Chinese Fishing Nets, just admire the magnificent heritage of Kerala. An ayurvedic rejuvenating massage (opional). Later in the evening enjoy Kathakali dance presentation.Kathakali(literally, story play),the spectacular classical dance drama of Kerala based on the guidelines laid by Saga Bharatha’s Natya Sastra,the ancient treatise on dance