Headache

24th Feb 2013

When the sound of a gong reverberates causing unbearable spasm of nerves between eye brows, it is commonly known as headache.

ತೃಪ್ತಿ

ಜೀವವಿರುವವರೆಗೂ ಜೀವ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡ ತೃಪ್ತಿ ನಿನಗುಳಿಯಲಿಲ್ಲ,
ಸತ್ತಿರುವವನಿಗೆ ಜೀವ ತುಂಬಿ ಮತ್ತೆ ಜೀವ ತೆಗೆದುಕೋ ಬೇಕಿದ್ದರೆ. - VV

Apartheid

Feb 21, 2013


Dark, painful days full of anguish are blemished.
Fair, pleasant days full of content are cherished.
It's a mental apartheid. - VV

ASK.

Feelings:

How are they generated? Are they any different from our shadows? We are sure we create them but we can't own them, may it be within ourselves or in others.

Everybody feels lonely at certain times. Some feel lonely at all times. Perhaps the loneliness is a result of expecting others to understand us better?

Everybody has passion towards something. Someone's passion is someone else's apathy. A person passionate about something feels disregarded by the one he expects to be equally passionate about, and discerns left alone?

Perhaps biggest enemy of a person is tacit rendering of self pity. Or is it the inability to perceive others' unhappiness bigger than ours?

We create our own goals and squander our time in wandering. Which is bigger here, the selflessness or selfishness? The goals may be set for ourselves but can also take care of a larger cause. May, not doing anything about it and feeling helpless to do so, instill ineptness in us?

There are many life troubling questions. Some face them, others avert them. Some may feel there is no bigger question in life than why question life in first place? And may people facing them feel there's no bigger answer to life than their very life being the way it is ?

Every question may have more than one answer and so does every answer have more than one question?

We hear, we see, we experience. It's all the same or it may be different; but life goes on. We then pass on the legacy and will the inheritance be questioned as what did we ever own to pass on to our clan or people in common?

And the quest perpetuates....... for generations to come.

-VV

Shadow

Feelings; whether within you or in others, you can create them but can't own them. - VV

lone walk

Feb 15, 2013


Some tiresome distances in life are short but take longer to traverse. Just like walking in dream. -VV

Belief

Feb 14, 2013

Love is God. God is love. Happy Valentine's.
-An agnostic VV.

Ol' habit

Feb 13, 2013


What we do would possibly have less effect on us than when we don't do what we do.-VV

Clingy

Feb 13, 2013

Possessiveness often leads to possessionlessness. -VV

Hatred

Love with doubt is as good as hatred with trust. - VV

ಕನ್ನಡಿ

ಕನ್ನಡಿ:

ಒಂದು ಕ್ಷಣ ಕನ್ನಡಿ ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣಲ್ಲಿ ಕಣ್ಣಿಕ್ಕಿ ನೋಡಿತು. ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕಣ್ಣು ಸೇರಿದ ತಕ್ಷಣ ಕನ್ನಡಿಯ ಕಣ್ಣು ಬೇರೆ ಕಡೆ ತಿರುಚಿಕೊಂಡವು. ನನಗೋ ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯ, ಸಂಕೋಚ ಎರಡೂ ಆದವು. ನನ್ನನ್ನೇಕೆ ಕನ್ನಡಿ ನೋಡುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯವಾದರೆ ನೋಡದೆ ಇರುವವನನ್ನು ದೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿ ನೋಡುತ್ತಾ ಇರುವೆನಲ್ಲ ಎಂಬ ಸಂಕೋಚ. ಹಾಗೇ ಗಮನಿಸಿ ನೋಡಿದಾಗ ಅದರ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳಲ್ಲೇನೋ ಹೇಳಲಾಗದ ನೋವು, ಮಾಡದ ತಪ್ಪಿನ ಅನುಭೂತಿ ಕಂಡು ಬಂದವು. ಮಾತನಾಡಿಸಲಿಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋದಾಗ ಕನ್ನಡಿಯೇನೋ ನಿಶ್ಚಯಿಸಿ ಬಾಯಿ ತೆಗೆಯಿತು. ಶಬ್ದ ಬರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಇಷ್ಟು ದಿವಸ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದನ್ನೇ ಪುನಃ ಹೇಳಲಿಕ್ಕಾಗದ ತಾತ್ಸಾರ, ಜುಗುಪ್ಸೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಬೇಸರ ಕಂಡುಬಂದವು. ಅಷ್ಟು ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಬಾಗಿಲಿನ ಸದ್ದು ಕೇಳಿ ಬಾಥ್ ರೂಮಿನಿಂದ ನಾನು ಹೊರಗೆ ಬಂದೆ. -VV

The Mirror:

At once, mirror saw me for a moment. No sooner the eyes met, than the mirror resorted to evasive looks and avoided direct eye contact with me. I had bewilderment mixed with sheepishness. Bewilderment because I wondered why the mirror was not looking at me. Sheepishness because I was looking at someone who is turning eyes away from me. With more intent, when I examined deeper, I observed a kind of inexplicable pain and burden of mistake that was not committed. When I opted to ask mirror about it, it thought of something and opened its mouth. There was no voice. There were boredom, disregard and disgust of talking about the same thing time and again with me. I came out of bathroom hearing some sound near the door.
-VV

Doter

Feb 11, 2013


It's the moon's beckoning that an ocean has a tide. - VV

ಸಿಹಿ-ಕಹಿ

Feb 9, 2013


ಮೌನ ಸವಿಯಾಗಿದೆ
ಮಾತು ಕಹಿಯಾದಮೇಲೆ.
ಮರೆವು ರೂಢಿಯಾಗಿದೆ
ನೆನಪು ಕಾಡಿಹೋದ ಮೇಲೆ. - VV

Booty

Feb 8, 2013

Booty is in the eye of the bulldozer. -VV

एकाकी

Feb 8, 2013


सूरज के साथ उठता है
चाँद को लेके सोता है
दुनिया से झोल झमेला है
आदमी कितना अकेला है - VV

Agony

Feb 5, 20013

Its so easy to be rude but so difficult to be at peace there after. -VV

Smile

Feb 1, 2013

ಮುಗುಳ್ನಗೆ : ನೆನಪುಗಳನ್ನು ಕಲಕಿ ಮೈಮೇಲೆ ಚಿಮುಕಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಶೂನ್ಯವ ಆಘ್ರಾಣಿಸಿದಾಗ ಬರುವ ಮೌನದ ಸುವಾಸನೆ. -VV

Smile : Redolence of silence sprayed on self with sprinklet of rosy memories. - VV

Hearsay

Jan 31, 2013

Worry: Its not about what they think of you. Its about what you think that they think of you. -VV

Worry: It's not about what they think that you think of them. It's about what you think of them. -VV

Psych

Jan 31, 2013.

Often, those 1% of the feelings loom over 99% of the conversation. -VV

Ainwe..

Jan 31, 2013


An idle stomach is bowel's workshop. - VV

Atypical

If you talk to the people usually you don't talk to, unusual. If you don't talk to the people usually you talk to, more unusual. - VV

To err is...

Jan 28, 2013


The common thing between a Doer and a Thinker is (to) er. - VV

Keep the best for the last.

Jan 24, 2013

Whatever the phenomenon of "postponing the excitement and yet can't wait for it; while dying to look forward to it" is called, but is exhilarating anyway. - VV

I know.

Jan 23, 2013

I hear, I Know. I see, I believe. I think, I mess up. - VV

ಭಾವ ತೀರ ಮೌನ

ನೀ ಬಾಯ್ತುಂಬಿ ನಕ್ಕಾಗ
ಹೃದಯ ತುಂಬಿ ತುಳುಕಿದೆ
ಅದೆಂಥ ನೋವು ಕಾಣದೆ
ಅದೆಂಥ ನಲಿವು ಬಯಸದೆ


ಮಾತಿಗೆ ತಲೆದೂಗಿದಾಗ
ಶಬ್ದ ಮೌನವಾಗಿದೆ
ರೆಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿಚ್ಚಿ ಹಾರಿದೆ
ಚಿಲಿಪಿಲಿಯ ಅರಸಿದೆ


ಮರೆವ ಹರಿವು ಬತ್ತಿದಾಗ
ನೆನಪು ಸಾಗರವಾಗಿದೆ
ಚಂದ್ರನೆಡೆಗೆ ಚಿಮ್ಮಿದೆ

ಅಳಲು ಭೋರ್ಗರಿಸಿದೆ  -VV 

ಶುಷ್ಕತೆ

ಬಾಂಧವ್ಯದ ಅನನ್ಯತೆ
ಒಣ ಹುಲ್ಲ ಮೇವಿನಂತೆ
ಮಮತೆ ನೀರಿರಲು ಔತಣ
ಕಿಡಿ ಕಾರಲು ಜ್ವಾಲೆ ಕೆಲದಿನ -VV

ಚಿಗಳಿ !

ಮಸ್ತ್ ಪೈಕಿ ಗಿಡದಾಗಿನ ಹುಣಷಿ ಹಣ್ಣು, ಛೊಲೋ ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿ, ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಎಣ್ಣಿ, ಕೆಂಪಾಗ್ ಲಾಲನ ಖಾರಪುಡಿ, ಜೀರಗಿ, ಶೀ ಅಂದ ತಾಜಾ ಬೆಲ್ಲ, ಒಂದ್ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಇಂಗು, ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಹಾಕಿ ಒಳ್ಳಾಗ ಕುಟ್ಟ ಬಾರದ ಕುಟ್ಟಿ, ಸಣ್ಣು ಸಣ್ಣು ಉಂಡಿ ಮಾಡಿ ಕಸಬರಿಗಿ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಕಡ್ಡಿಗೆ ಶಿಗಿಸಿ ಚೀಪಿದ್ರ, ಆಹಾಹಹಾ ! ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲಾರ್ದೂ ಸಣ್ ಹುಡುಗುರ್ ಇದ್ದಿದ್ದ್ ದಿನಾ ನೆನಪಾಗೂದಿಲ್ಲ ? ಏನ್ ಹೇಳ್ತೀರಿ?

ಕನಸು

ಯಾವುಪಮೇಯ ನಿನ್ನ ಚೆಲುವಿಗೆ ಹೊಂದಿದೆ 

ಕಣ್ಮುಚ್ಚಲು ನಿನ್ಮೊಗವೊಂದೇ ಕಂಡು ಬಂದಿದೆ 

ಲತೆ ಸೂಸುವ ತಂಗಾಳಿಗೂ ನಾನು ಕೇಳಿದೆ  

ನಿನ್ನ ನಗುವ ಕಿಲ ಕಿಲ ಸದ್ದಿಗೆ ಬೆಚ್ಚಿ ಬಿದ್ದಿದೆ 

ತಂಪನೀಯುವ ಚಂದಿರಗೆ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆ ಕಾದಿದೆ 

ನಿನ್ನ ಬಿಂಬ ಅಲೆಗಳ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಓಲಾಡಿದೆ 

ವನದ ಹೂಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಗುಲಾಬಿ ನಕ್ಕಿದೆ 

ನಿನ್ನ ಸುವಾಸನೆ ಅದಕ್ಕೂ ಹುಚ್ಚು ಹಿಡಿಸಿದೆ  

ಗೆಳೆತನವೋ ಈರ್ಷೆಯೋ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕಂಡಿದೆ 

ಕೇಶರಾಶಿಗೂ ದುಂಬಿಗೂ  ಪೈಪೋಟಿಯಿದೆ 

ನಾಚಿಕೆಯು ಮೈತುಂಬಿ ಕೆಂಪು ರಂಗೇರಿದೆ 

ರವಿ ಚುಮುಕಿಸುವ ಥಳಕು ಕೊಂಚ ಮಾಸಿದೆ  

ಮತ್ತನೀಯುವ ನೋಟ ಮತ್ತೆ ನನ್ನ ಕಾಡಿದೆ 

ಎದ್ದೇಳಲು ಒಂಟಿತನ, ಕವಿತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕನಸಿದೆ -VV

ಹೆಣೆದ ತೊಡಕು

ರಾಜತ್ವದ ಪ್ರೇಮ
ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ನಂಟುಗಳು
ಬಲವಂತದ ಹರಟೆ,

ಕಹಿ ಮನಸುಗಳು

ನಸುನಗೆ, ಕೃತಕಾಲಿಂಗನ
ತೋರಿಕೆಯ ಸಿರಿವಂತಿಕೆ
ಒಳಗೊಳಗಿನ ಬಡತನ
ಜೀವನ - ದಿನದೂಡುವಿಕೆ

ಇಲ್ಲಸಲ್ಲದ ಲಾಭ
ಗ್ರಾಹಕರಹಿತ ವ್ಯಾಪಾರ
ಅನಿಸಿರದ ಕೊರಗು
ಕೊಟ್ಟು-ಇಸಿಯುವ ವ್ಯವಹಾರ

ಆಗೊಮ್ಮೆ ಈಗೊಮ್ಮೆ
ಮಿನುಗುವ ದಿನಗಳು
ಅಮಾವಾಸ್ಯೆಯ ಬೆಳ್ಳಿಚುಕ್ಕಿ
ಬಿಳಿಮೊಗದ ಮುಂಗುರುಳು

ಕನಸಿನಲ್ಲಿನ ಸಂತಸ
ಎದಿರುನೋಡುವ ಯೋಗ
ಗಡಿಬಿಡಿಯ ಪ್ರೇಮ - ಪ್ರೀತಿ
ವರುಷಗಳ ವಿಯೋಗ - VV

Angare sabzi burfeela kaju

Well my ardent scant readers, welcome back to trying out reading some new recipe (if not trying out to cook it, on its face value)

The title had to be more rapchik than probably the dish itself, knowing me by now.

Today, I was prepared to make a khichdi of yet many new and old giveaway recipes we hear and read. One important thing for an amateurish (might as well for a professional, who knows) food buff is to visualize the dish even before he starts concocting the recipe. I did the same last evening and was munching on the idea of some finger biting delicacy. How much it came to reality, tasters only know. But there was a satisfaction of a poet writing his thoughts, a painter brushing his fantasies and a musician humming his composition.

After that much ado and hype, let's begin with today's recipe. Presenting "Sabzi bane angare, dubki liye  burfeele kaju mein"

Ingredients:

Onions : Generously big 3-4.
Garlic cloves : Around 10.
Ginger : Chitkusa.
Clove and peppercorns : As much hot you want the dish to be.
Green chilly : 2-3.
Cashew nuts : Around 10.
Mint leaves - A handful.
Vegetables : Like cauliflower, capsicum, carrot, brinjal, etc, according to their availability in your refrigerator.
Paneer cubes : 4-6.
Whipped curd : A cup.
Whipped cream : A cup.

Method:

1.  Actually this recipe is supposed to be with grilled vegetables. I don't have grill at home (I'm grilled often, that's a different story). So the idea I had was to use good old flat pan, pour a tea spoon of oil and on high flames, burn the vegetables those are cut roundly. Just like the following picture.

I also burnt the vegetables directly on the flame (not a bad idea though) like the following picture.

One can use a wire mesh and keep some coal on that, heat the coal to red hot and barbecue the vegetables on that. Again, to my bad luck, neither the coal nor the wire mesh were available.

2. Cut onions in big cubes and grind them to fine paste along with cashew nuts. Add some water to get a thinnish paste.

3. Grind to paste mint leaves, green chillies, coriander leaves, clove, garlic cloves and pepper corns.

(Don't forget to smell this paste with your nostrils closed)

4. Now the cooking starts. Add some ghee to a pan, allow it to be heated. Add mustard, cumin seeds and allow them to sputter. If you want, you can add curry leaves now (to say aah) or later for a surprise ending)

5. Add green paste to this, fry it a bit.

6. Add onion cashew mixture and allow it to be fried till it is slightly cooked.

7. Add turmeric powder.

8. Add whipped curd to the mixture, allow it to boil.

9. After the above has started smoking, add vegetables one by one and paneer cubes, keeping the sautéed tomato till the end. I know I am saying this to you because I didn't do that and ended up squashing them all :( That's not what I wanted. The tomatoes, along with their burn marks should look up in the gravy.

10. Mix them well and before adding some more water, add kitchen king masala, salt to taste and a little red chilly powder. Now add water and allow it to be cooked nicely. Don't forget to close the lid as you can save fuel and have a nice aroma inside the lid as well. .... issued in public interest.

11. Add whipped cream and sugar and taste it while it's hot. A burnt tongue is hardly a good connoisseur. If you still like the taste, give it to others to taste or repair with whatever you can think of, at that moment.

12. Mine tasted little bland. So I decided to go against the cooking rules and give it a tadka, even after adding cream and sugar. And the surprise tadka was of ---- asafetida! and my favorite curry leaves and red chillies. Here it is......

I added it and shut the lid again. Turned off the flame. But the flame inside me was telling me that it will turn out to be better than expected.

And Bingo! it did. My wife, kids and guests liked it.

My wife prepared parathas for the above dish. Here's my sweet daughter, preparing green salad to go with it. 

Jali ko aag kehte hain, bujhi ko rakh kehte hain.

aur jo (sabziyonko) jalake jo bujhati hai, usse vinayvani kehte hain.

Try it once guys, hope you will like it.

Masalaama.