River Brahmaputra Guwahati India
That's My River - My Place
Sunset at River Brahmaputra
We have seen this sight so many times sitting in Sukreswar park. Do you remember?
I wont take credit for these pictures as I found it on the net. But very close to my heart.
Cheers !!
For you Banya
The world changes – additions, erosions, voices fading in and out
the core still is soft and blue
They bring in flowers from near and far, delicate, fragrant or colorful
I know i got mine. I’m so in you.
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Love Tingshu.
Soya Dal
Soya Dal being cooked
Tonight when I came back from office, Futchu had prepared Pao Bhaji which was just delicious. But soon it was time for dinner and we were wondering just like everyday of what to cook. I decided to take up the challenge today and Futchu suggested that we cook Soya Dal.
Now what exactly Soya Dal is? It’s pulses boiled with Soya chunks and then mixed with fried onions + tomatoes + cilantro.
What is that?
Pulses are low fat, high fibre, no cholesterol, low glycemic index, high protein, high nutrient foods. They are excellent foods for people managing their diabetes, heart disease or coeliac disease. Pulses are also good for people who want to eat healthy food to help reduce their risk of heart disease or diabetes. Additionally, pulses can help people concerned with weight control.
Soy protein has been used since 1959 as ingredients for its functional properties in a variety of foods such as salad dressings, soups, vegetarian foods and meat imitations. Its functional properties are emulsification and texturizing. Recently the popularity of soy protein is increasing, mainly because of its health benefits. It has been proven that soy protein can help to prevent heart problems and many countries allow health claims for food, which are rich in soy protein.
So let me share the recipe of this wonderful dish with you. I am sure you will like it. Not only is it full of protein but also it can be prepared with very less oil, unlike most Indian inspired dishes.
Here it goes,
Things you need
Two cups of Masur dal (Pulses)
50 chunks of Soya
2 Tomatoes chopped
1 big onion chopped
1 bunch of Cilantro
1 tbsp of veg oil
Salt to taste
1 pinch of turmeric powder
1 tbsp of chilli powder
Process
Wash the pulses very properly till all the white color is washed.
Start boiling the pulses with enough water
Mix the Soya Chunks and boil them together with the pulses
Add some salt to taste
Fry the chopped onions, tomatoes and cilantro in the oil and add the turmeric powder along with the chili powder and some salt
Once fried golden brown mix the boiled dal and soya chunks and add some water to boil the same in low heat till thick
And you are done !! Enjoy
A busy day
The day passed by like a breeze.
Meetings added to more meetings. Some were fruitful some not. But who cares – I am going to India in a few days and am all excited about that !!
Need to book our tickets, fill up the forms, take visa appointment etc etc etc. But I am looking forward to the short trip. Hope that henceforth we can make more frequent trips. Let’s see !! We all continue to hope something or the other.
Here is something I saw on IBN live today – Can only happen in my country !! Check it out.
Train bound for Bihar – Reaches Allahabad
Symmetry – How exciting is it ?
People like us who live and breathe in design always have a thought going behind their mind while creating something – “Symmetry”.
After all anything that is symmetrical looks good. Why dont we call someone beautiful with a visibly squint eye? Simply because that is not symmetrical. Most of the things you find in the nature is symmetrical, people, animals, leaves, butterfly, trees (when sectioned) everything.
Definitions
literary – the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.
literary – beauty based on or characterized by such excellence of proportion.
mathematical – a geometrical or other regularity that is possessed by a mathematical object and is characterized by the operations that leave the object invariant: A circle has rotational symmetry and reflection symmetry.
physics – a property of a physical system that is unaffected by certain mathematical transformations as, for example, the work done by gravity on an object, which is not affected by any change in the position from which the potential energy of the object is measured.
Ever wondered what a perfect example of something not symmetrical would be? Not that I can think of something straightaway. But how did symmetry get such a hype? There must have been something with which it was compared – something Asymmetrical. Come to think of it, perhaps our universe is an asymmetry. Is there another mirror image of our universe on the other side? If not it’s definitely asymmetrical. If yes, then there is another world on that side and if you think deeper, there are all the same elements that we have in this world. There is a me, a you in that other world, because it has to be there to make things symmetrical. Boring?
But I am getting distracted here.
I was talking about the effect of symmetry on design, and if asymmetry will help bring life to it? Symmetry is appealing, but is it exciting? It’s like two parallely straight lines, never desitined to meet. Question is – If life is a pallette and the time that we live is the canvas, what colors would you like to sqeeze to paint? How would you paint it?
I dont know yet – But I think it’s high time to give asymmetry a chance and see if things spice up a bit. I am again ready to design.
Cheers ~