Gujarati Food and Fun Fest – Anero Anand Mela

Bangalore is soon going to witness an unusual fest of sorts. A fest filled with loads of fun and importantly food. Authentic Gujarati Food, prepared by the masters themselves. Yes, the ladies who have made them at their best, always.

Anero Anand Mela is a fun filled fest with loads of food, games and lots to pass your time around on a lazy Sunday. With a nominal entry charge, you get to participate in a Lucky Draw. Prizes include Washing Machines, Wet Grinders, Cameras, TVs and a lot more!

Best of all, it is not just for the Gujaratis alone. It does not matter if you are a Kannadiga or a Punjabi, or a Tamilian or just about any one! If you are feeling lucky, your kids are feeling bored and if you are game to sample some great food, just get there. Well, just one more thing, if you like the idea, then why not pull your friends along? Any ways, there is more fun when there are more than one families, right?

When? Sunday, 13th September, 2009, 10.30 am. to 8.00 pm.

Where? Anero Anand Mela, Palace Grounds, Near Mekhri Circle, Gayatri Vihar, Bangalore – 560080.

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Dosti

kuch baatein ankahi si,
kuch anjaan lamhe,
thodi si masti, thodi si khusti,
Bas yahi to hai dosti!

कुछ बातें अनकही सी,
कुछ अंजान लम्हे,
थोड़ी सी मस्ती, थोड़ी सी खुसती,
बस यही तो है दोस्ती!

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10 hot nights of Garba and Dandiya coming right up!

Oh Rang Rasiya… the tune still fresh in my mind! Dholida Dhol Dhimo Vagad Na… the regular one that can never be done away with! We Gujaratis also have a weird taste when it comes to music, especially when it concerns Navratri!

What starts of with lots of fanfare also goes on with equal pomp and show! every girl I know is decked in the best of her finery! Too bad most of these girls are taken! even otherwise, I have not attempted to patao one for the fear of getting beaten! The other day a friend was asking me if there would be any great looking girls around there. What could I tell him? I had not found one myself for the last so many years that I have been frequenting there!

I wonder sometimes, why does this have to be celebrated just once a year, but then I reminiscent, had it been more than once, would we ever have enjoyed it? Even otherwise, these days I hardly see the kind of gusto that I used to see as a kid! Somehow it all seems to have been getting lost and missing with every year that passes by!

Oh lets leave all this behind! We were talking about girls and music! The finery and the dance! Till date I still consider myself to be a novice at the Dandiya steps! And Garba? Forget it! I don’t even remember when was the last time I saw myself there! Freaks me out! This year it could go on to be even more pathetic for me! I have hardly had any kind of a physical activity at all! Earlier I at least used to walk up to the bus stop to take my bus to work!

Lets see if I meet the same set of faces this year! Man! I hate it when this set of chicks spoil the whole rhythm with their delicate looking difficult steps! So very puts me out of sync! Girls, you need to understand you embarrass me for having two left legs!

Chica, this year if I seez you doing dat, I saiz I will run awai!

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Woh Meethe Pal

I happened to find this abandoned cycle on my neighbor’s terrace the other day. It brought back memories that I cherished. I still remember those days when DD National channel played the serial “Street Hawk” on Sundays. Ecstasy! I used to consider myself as “The Street Hawk!” In fact, I even used to ape the serial by riding my then cycle, a white colored “BSA Champ”, in the most reckless style!

This recklessness never fetched me any thing is a different thing. The thrill, the speed, the air running fast through the hair! What else could a 10 year old ask for? This 10 year old in me is still alive, probably that’s the reason why I call my bike the night rider and drive as fast as possible!

However, these days I am seeing a negative trend setting in. there is  hardly a kid in my area who rides a bicycle! All that I see around me are kids as young as 13-14 burning the road with the 2-wheelers that their parents use. I share the wall of my building compound with another family. The children there, who are almost half my age, if not more, are double in waist size than me!

Ridiculous! Are we as the present generation, or parents, or friends, or siblings failing somewhere? I guess it is high time we opened our eyes and took a reality check.

I guess it’s high time we all hit the roads and exercised. After all, isn’t it true that a country is at its best when its inhabitants are at their healthiest best?

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Just passing thoughts

Well, how many times have we had such fleeting thoughts that the moment we got it we lost it!!! Something just like this train… it passes by just so fast… just the same way that you would expect from an unknown person…

But I would not agree with that!!! How many sweet memories do we hold of this train, how many soulful journeys have we gone in the train??? Wind blowing into our face when we stood out at the door, or as kids forced our faces out of the window to look at the curving train!!! It does not just end there… so many strangers who we made friends with by the time we reached our destination. Or as a matter of fact all the wares that would be sold by all kinds of people… some whom as kids we despised at the first look while some how ever they looked, we drooled for the stuff that they sold!!!

Ok lets move a little more ahead… train journeys always remind me of the yummy food that mom packed up for us!!! the first thing that as kids we did the minute the station was out of sight was to ask mom if there was something to eat! I really pity mom! Well, the hogging done, the next best thing that at least my brother and I did as kids was to decide what to play!!! The ball always fell in my mom’s court… she was never involved in the first place but then my bro and I could never come to an amicable decision! We always needed a third party to settle that!!! Psst… that happens even now sometimes!!!

I am now getting nostalgic!!! I want to get out and venture into another journey!!! I have a few things planned up… but I am not too sure when that would materialize!!! Well, so long until then!!!

More updates when I actually have them!!!

Well I can think of only one song as of now!!!

Gaadi bula rahi hai… seeti baja rahi hai… chalna hi zindagi hai… chalti hi jaa rahi hai…

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Foodie Me!!!

Mmmmmmmm…….
Yummy food and me go hand in hand!!! Been enjoying and devouring food like crazy over the weekend. No idea how I was able to allow it to get into my belly!!! Maybe that’s the reason I have been gaining inches over my waist over the past one year!!

Can’t seem to be getting over it!!!! Here is a fundoo idea that I am going to use the next time I feel the urge to cram up food!!!! I am going to go dip my head in a bucket of water until the feeling goes away!!! Just joking!! I am gonna be excercising lotsa self restraint though!!

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