tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58831661467346705452024-03-13T20:43:04.947+05:30A jotting on anything on earth.views and information's on Indian education, higher education, career and on different topics including tour notes, experiences, society, nature, custom and culture. Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-17240312356577131482017-03-26T20:54:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:58:45.252+05:30Rudraksha beads of Shiva temple J P Nagar, Bangalore.
I have got an opportunity to get dharshan of the holy deity of JP Nagar Shiva
Temple, Lord Shiva- the lord of Moksha.
The roof of sanctum sanctorum of the temple is constructed in a design of
lotus, which having a beautiful sight. The more interesting fact is that the
greenery around the temple which gives a cool , peaceful atmosphere. Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-14710221503780559682013-06-09T23:57:00.001+05:302020-02-14T00:58:06.764+05:30champa fruit n flower.
On first look of below picture, I am sure that you tell the fruit is litchi. No it is not the fruit of litchi, it is fruit of Champa ( swarna champa).
Last week i have planted one sapling in a earthen pot to make a bonsai. I do not know ,is this plant is suitable for bonsai and flower in small pot ?
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-9461505951104365662012-10-10T22:31:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:55:06.352+05:30Bridge for what?
Bridges are made for people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. Here see a bridge, constructed over tributary of river Bansadara in Orissa. Even people dare not to cross the river by using the bridge, then how a vehicle. See below.
A tractor crossing river.
A Chevrolet car crossing river.
TATA SUMO.
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-44983190148299011492012-10-10T22:05:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:54:41.726+05:30black caterpillar.
A black caterpillar enjoying food.
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-21394235317615002202012-10-10T21:57:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:54:26.597+05:30Bird in office
A birds visit in my office.
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-74171282816533884382012-10-10T14:59:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:54:05.624+05:30water flower vase.
Keeping flowers in a bowl filled with water in front of main entrance of houses is considered as auspicious as per Indian tradition.
This helps to maintain harmony among family members as well as neighbours.
It is proven fact that flowers have a quality of soothing stressed mind , this will be reason for keeping flowers in frontManihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-83728310846421475822012-10-09T22:39:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:53:43.114+05:30Airport elephants.
Elephants statue placed in front of International Airport New Delhi.
In Hindu mythology seeing elephants , it is very auspicious before proceeding to somewhere.
whatever, these welcome statues of elephants are beautiful.
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-84500123865071023272012-10-09T22:18:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:53:22.790+05:30Wild plum
This is the image of wild plums I have seen in jungles of Orissa.
I do not know the exact name of the plant and fruit.
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-58805540148527981062012-10-09T21:58:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:53:00.508+05:30Sale in progress… wild honey…
This is not on the album “wild honey” by Tiamat or breakfast haven, but on the actual wild honey.In southern Orissa it is a common seen that selling wild honey on road sides.
I enjoy morning road run and usually every morning I run about seven to eight kilo meters on road by watching the happenings around. In winter it is Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-48240692149936213612012-09-16T11:10:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:52:39.848+05:30Busy August.
The month August was very hectic to me. Throughout the month I remained on tour in different parts of south Indian states. I was enjoying the tour. Earlier I have not got such an opportunity to travel many places in a spell. As usual all the tour was purely on official on government expenditure.
My first visit was in Kannur, my hometown, a northern district of Kerala, second at Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-52702474219651580242012-07-29T17:07:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:52:19.848+05:30My daughter and her pond.
During April I was on vacation at my home. As usual in every April my wife has to go for evaluation duties (she is a higher secondary teacher) and my son to his school. I and my daughter remain at home till evening by watching TV and playing. The summer was very hot during the year even sun burn and stroke were reported in some districts of Kerala, so only option left out for us was to stay Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com7Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India11.0168445 76.955832110.892156499999999 76.7979036 11.1415325 77.113760599999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-58878132500532121162012-07-01T22:03:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:50:49.008+05:30Foo dog or dwarapalaka .. ?
Here in Orissa, I noticed one thing that, in front of almost all temples there will be statue of lions at both side of main entrance. The shapes and style are varying from temple to temple. Are they symbolizing the guards of temple?
In south India, you can see two frightening statues at the entrance of inner sanctum namely Dwarapalakas – mean Door keepers. (Dwar mean door and palaka mean Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-21789514785462455662012-02-17T00:16:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:49:57.224+05:30Bargad- tree which fulfill wishes.
Recently I was in Jaypore ( not Jaipur the capital of Rajasthan) , Jaypore is in Koraput district Orissa. I was there with some work at judicial court. I reached there early at 9 am as the working hours starts in Indian offices at 10 morning. But there the seen was very interesting, a large gathering of people were there before I reach there. They were sitting under a huge banyan tree in front Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-6630934937201151152011-11-22T23:37:00.002+05:302020-02-14T00:49:17.274+05:30Mushrooms …..beautiful !
The below mushrooms are I found in jungles of south Orissa during my trek.
coffee color wild mushroom.
White lily mushroom.
Lily mushrooms.
Beautiful white lily mushroom.
Red apple mushroom.
Red apple mushroom.
Common edible mushroom.
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-48603424852066958322011-11-20T21:09:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:48:30.617+05:30Poverty, illiteracy and superstition… who cares?
Today I was reading newspaper; two local news’s caught my attention. The news was like …
One - “BLIND BELIEF LEADS TO HORRIBLE CRIME” Sister ‘sacrificed ‘ for getting wealth. In Mayurbhanj district, a man sacrificed his sister to get mental peace and wealth. According to the accused, he killed a snake two days before of the incident and in his sleep the snake god appeared and cursed him on Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-58572612966885791312011-11-18T10:33:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:47:43.526+05:30Hairstyle, sickle, and dongria women.
Sickle, axe, hoe etc are common agriculture tools of an agrarian society. Indeed Dongrias are agrarian society ,male keeps their axe as a body part on their shoulder same time female keep the sickle on their hair like a ornament as well as for domestic purpose. See pictures below how dongria woman keeping her sickle as a hairstyling clip.
Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-8046940636340180722011-10-29T23:57:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:47:08.864+05:30Nose pierced boys.
Now a days it is fashion and passion to boys to get pierce their ear and put small fancy rings in it, but you seem it strange ,these Dongria boys living in their own cocoon of their custom and tradition used to pierce their ears moreover nose to wear rings.
Boys of Dongria tribes get pierced their nose and ear to wear earrings and nose rings as the girls in Niyamgiri area do. It is customaryManihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-59434219648831490102011-10-18T22:29:00.005+05:302020-02-14T00:42:27.055+05:30Beautiful girls of Niyamgiri hills.
It is a unique experience to climb Niyamagiri hills and enjoy beauty of the nature there. At the same time, omitting to say about the beauty of the folks living in Niyamgiri hills will be a great mistake. On hearing the word beauty, your first imagination will be of about the girls living there, but I have to say some other kind of beauty I could find in them, such beauty that cannot see in Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-66268392408267610882011-10-14T15:07:00.001+05:302020-02-14T00:40:08.003+05:30Jharnia the protectors of the streams!
I could not getting time these days to complete my travel story on Niyamgiri hills due to my unpredictable work nature, but today while waiting for my connecting flight to Patna at Delhi airport for about three hours give me opportunity to write this post (my favorite travel mode is train, but it is very difficult to get a reservation in trains during seasons-puja holiday, without reservation Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-67565377498591607172011-10-09T00:33:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:39:27.453+05:30Tree or liana vine..?
Remembering my childhood days, we used to make swings with liana vine, but my children don’t believe me if I say this to them, because even to imagine, they have to see the vine at least once. I think the liana vines may be extinct from Kerala due to rapid urbanization and deforestation (I swear, myself had not seen liana vine for last twenty or more years in my village once which was abundantlyManihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-40838866550414827262011-10-06T23:16:00.002+05:302020-02-14T00:38:51.263+05:30Fate of Niyamgiri hills?
After my first posting about trek on Niyamgiri hills, I couldn’t write remaining stories due to some priority works. I have a lot to say about the wonderful things I saw in jungles of Niyamgiri- its people, living style and nature. Only my worry is that, I am not a writer to reproduce in words, the exciting beauty of Niyamgiri jungles I have seen through my eyes. A picture can say many things Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-53713930720042974342011-09-26T00:05:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:38:01.231+05:30On Niyamgiri hills.
Last week I went for a trekking on Niyamagiri hills Orissa. I remained there for seven days. Trekking through inaccessible ways of Niyamagiri hills heights ranging from 500 mtrs to 1200mtrs, sleep in jungles are rarest opportunity and not possible to everyone. Only the frightening thing was malaria. Plasmodium falciparum is one of the dangerous kind of malaria parasite found in these jungles Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-6726397436142087692011-09-11T19:27:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:37:12.033+05:30Eroticism and temple art.
Recently during my visit to a temple nearby my residence, where I haven’t gone for last few months, put me in a strange thought on seeing a modification on the outer wall of the sanctum sanctorum decorated with new Blackstone made statues. Some of them were erotic.
The strange thought was that, I have visited many temples at different parts of India during my tours Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-3141898061505873962011-08-31T01:44:00.000+05:302020-02-14T00:35:30.135+05:30Zonal green area,Keshopur.
Next day morning, I was roaming on roads of Mahavir Nagar. I can’t stop myself my habit of morning exercises even though knowing that walking or running in Delhi roads is not safe and healthy. I walked towards keshopur sabzi mandi as previous day I couldn’t see the market due to rain and dirty and messy areas. But I changed my plan on seeing men in jogging dress coming out of a walled land. In Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883166146734670545.post-20245494482204480572011-08-28T23:54:00.002+05:302020-02-14T00:32:57.621+05:30Keshopur vegetable market.
It is my habit to wake up early morning and have a health run or walk. I enjoy road run than indoor exercises, so in Delhi also I ventured out, but I had to stop running within few meters due to dust and traffic. Then the thought of “what to do“come up in my mind and decided to go in nearby subzi mandi (a Hindi word for vegetable market) Keshopur on foot, just to see the affairs at there and Manihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984553910329383036noreply@blogger.com2