Summer special

       Mango, The King of fruits

        FOOD Mango has different multi-tasking specials, which makes cooking very easy.

        Aparajitha Bukkapatanam

 Mango being a special fruit of summer season has many variations to build your own favourite                                                        dish in your way. Coming in different varieties and colours, it is a fruit used both in the southern and northern hemispheres. Suiting all the palates of the hemispheres, it has proven to be a universal fruit for sweet and tangy dishes, which are most suitable for both the palates. A clear-cut distinction can be easily made through the way it’s used in the two partitions, and their methodology of using this fruit in different ways.

         Talking about the south-Indian ways, it’s a main ingredient for many people in the twin cities of Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu, where most of them use it in pickles. Pickles vary in their taste and several other estimations like sugar, red-chilli powder, salt, turmeric powder and many other. Small districts like Kakinada, yanam, Rayalaseema  are few of the examples, where we can find this distinction in their pickle making. 

                                                           In the case of other varieties, mango is a main source for many sweet dishes like fruit-salad, mango mocktails and liquids, which help us in keeping the body temperatures constant during the scorching summer season. Mango has got many other variations like panna, pachhi-pulusu, theeyapuli and many more, which make our day-to- day cuisine very interesting. In the Northern India, mango-milkshakes are a common companion with various kind of paranthas, which helps in equalising your diet. Mango milkshakes are also a main source of coolants, as they accompanied by basil or coriander leaves, which fulfil this particular property.

             In the case of classy dishes, mango is a main ingredient in cakes, fruit-tarts, cupcakes and pies. Television shows like Donna Hay, Rachel Allen: Bake, Nigella Kitchen, Kylie Kwong are few of the  cookery shows, which show the use of this fruit in their dishes. Mango is mainly looked upon as a main ingredient to prevent harmful diseases resulting due to the seasonal changes in some parts of the country. The use of this fruit is a main source to get resistance even in the scorching sun, or in the bad-weather conditions prevailing differently in both the parts of the hemispheres.

              Mango in short can be called as “Jack of All Trades” useful in both the parts equally and can      be rated to be the king of fruits inspite of its rare availability in the summer season.

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Flower article

Rainbow colours in the city

Aparajitha Bukkapatanam       


IN FOCUS Flowers are blossoming in the streets of Hyderabad, giving it exquisite beauty.



 When we see flowers, decorated on cakes and as showpieces in our room, our surroundings get very unique and colourful. In the same, flowers can make our environment very unique and beautiful. Whenever we see something exquisite on the roads of tank band and other areas like jubilee hills, Vasant nagar or Hitec city, we feel very royal and sophisticated that we travel these roads in Hyderabad. In the same way, flowers also create a same feeling when we see them growing in our locality. There is a saying that God created Adam and Eve, who were the first humans to come onto this earth and were living in a paradise of trees and blossoms, spread in their world as well as in their minds. This type of beauty was persistent till Adam and Eve ate the fruit of knowledge, opening their eyes to enter the reality and destructing their quiet and peaceful life.
 
So is the case with the present day generation where majority of them are aware only of their material needs. But the faith of maintaining the surroundings is momentarily restored in few places like, Banjara Hills and Jubliee Hills, the known streets of Hyderabad. These places are growing the majority of trees, which make them very different from other congested areas.  A passer-by can admire much of its beauty in houses as well as on the roads, which embellish the surroundings perfectly. Exotic varieties of flowers and inflorescences are the distinguished characteristics of these localities and attract many people to look at the artistic bungalows, with the blossoming flowers.  Rich colors of orange, red, green and purple shades make these places outstanding when compared to other places in Hyderabad. The seasonal changes bring varieties of colors to these streets, raising them to the level of the evergreen blossoms of Jammu and Kashmir or to that of the royal color combinations of Beverly Hills. So, do have a sunny side-up in your locality, to list yourselves in the unique collection of streets. 

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Trip to Aurangabad

Aurangabad’s specialty

TRAVEL A cost-effective and enthralling vacation to Aurangabad and its beautiful monuments.

Aparajitha Bukkapatanam

There are many places of tourist attraction in India, which signify their own significance and history from different perspectives. But Aurangabad stands out in this particular list of tourist attractions, along with Ajanta and Ellora caves. The Ajanta caves are mainly famous for their beautiful paintings created by sand, vegetable dyes and other natural materials of that time. The Ellora caves on the other side play a major tourist attraction for the beautiful architecture, sculptures and the huge statues of deities like Durga, Vishnu, Shiva and many more.

When it comes to Ajanta caves, the paintings signify the stories of the Buddha period, explaining various stories of Jataka Tales, with diverse stories of the previous incarnations of the Buddha as Bodhisattva (a saintly being destined to become the Buddha), opening a panorama of endless patterns, with human beings, surrounded by various flora and fauna. The pattern of these paintings is filled with rich beauty, expressiveness, radiant colours, fine shading and idealized physical features. The paintings are basically of two types namely the Hinayana paintings with horizontal-linear composition and the Mahayana paintings, which cover almost entire walls by subtle shading and background foliage. The specialty of these paintings is mainly through its simplicity of colours like red, blue, yellow ochre and lamp-black.

The Ellora caves on the other hand, are famous for its architectural design and outstanding sculptures. The caves are mainly of Buddhist, Hindu and the Jainism origins dedicated to Buddha, Shiva and Mahavira. The sculptures of these caves are mainly portrayed through animals like elephants, lions and mainly the Gods of various origins like Buddhist, Hindu and the Jainism. Each cave signifies the importance of their respective Gods, which can be clearly demarcated into various positions all over the area. The Buddhist caves contain mainly the Viharas (monasteries) while the Hindu caves show a wide range of temples for Lord Shiva, Kalidasa and portray the narrative episodes of great Hindu epics like the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The Jain caves show the intricate images of Tirthankaras or saints, embellished with exquisitely carved foliage and garland motifs.

Aurangabad is also famous for other monuments like the Daulatabad Fort, Bibi ka Maqbara (the other version of Taj Mahal), which was a loving tribute to Begum Rabia Durrani, by Aurangzeb’s eldest son, Azam Shah. The city is also famous for its handicrafts, Paithani saris, intricate silver craft of Bidriware and the beautiful silk mushroo and the himroo shawls. Aurangabad is basically a major tourist attraction, for its cost-effectiveness and the beauty of its monuments, is blessed with a worthwhile existence for centuries.

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Daulatabad fort

Ajanta caves

 Ellora caves

 Bibi Ka Maqbara

The Dilsukhnagar bomb blast

Another major bomb blast

A cycle bomb was planted in Dilsukhnagar in the heavy crowd

Aparajitha Bukkapatanam

Hyderabad: A cycle bomb was planted in the heavy crowd of Dilsukhnagar, in a cinema theatre on 21st February, 2013. The bomb was planted during the most busiest time, in the evening where the majority traffic was concentrated. It was the time of seroius bharat bandhs, due to which several lives were lost during the bomb blast. Sources say that the Hate speech controversy and the immediate death sentences of Kasab and Afzhal Guru could be the main reasons for triggering such a problem. The bomb blast took a sudden turn and didn't take time, for the policemen to recognise it as a bomb. The bomb had a higher concentrate of harmful chemicals, which resulted in the death of nearly 20 people at a stretch. 

The officials have been criticised on these serial bomb blasts by many citizens residing in Hyderabad. Many comments had been passed on social networking sites like facebook, twitter and had created a major issue among people of Hyderabad. Previously the bomb blasts at Gokul chat Bandhar and Lumbini park had created a havoc, where many children had lost their lives. But the second blast had a totally different effect as it had many adults concentrated in the adjacent areas along with the theatre as the main target. Dilsukhnagar, the hub for shopping had brought chaos or confusion all over the citizens and disturbed the whole society to the hilt.

 Discussions are being made on this major issue and security lines are made strong in the populated areas of the city and necessary steps are being taken to avoid another such a major situation in the city of Hyderabad, because certain sources are being informed about attacking the other places of the city, like begum bazaar, abids etc. The only hope among the people of Hyderabad is instilled by the important decisions taken by the government officials. 

Golconda fort

Hyderabad's Famous Monument

TRAVEL If there is one place in Hyderabad, you want to go as a tourist, then Golconda Fort is a       perfect example.

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Hyderabad is one of the major cities in Andhra Pradesh, famous for its traffic as well as for its tourist destinations. One of such example is Golconda Fort, which is an evergreen monument to be enjoyed even by the people of Hyderabad along with other tourists. The monument is a place where you can have a picnic with your family, or a place for a history student, who is working on the fort for its architecture, history and many more such aspects which can be considered about this monument. The transport for reaching this monument is also very easy, which enables many tourists in and around Hyderabad to visit the monument. An example of this monument's importance is also evident through a research point of view, when we look into the detailed carvings and other structural shapes in the monument. Golconda Fort is one of the oldest monument, since the time of Aurangazeb, who was one of the biggest tyrant of the Mughal dynasty. The monument has many fascinating features, specially for the corridors of women, soldiers and the spacious buildings, which are very luxuriant to look. The monument has many more interesting features like the granary room, the dancing quarters and the woman quarters. Apart from the galleries, the fort is having an excellent style of arches and tombs, which are built geometrically useful. The fort is also is also having extensive sculptures which are useful for propagating information about the enemies and their direction of attacking from one location.

The fort is also a place where we can see a majority of Americans coming all the way from Abroad and visiting this magnificent fort. The architecture with the help of rocks is what fascinated the Americans to a larger extent and has been a major source of information to them. Apart from the Americans, the fort is also visited by many north-Indians with their whole family who are the maximum amount to visit this monument. The Golconda Fort is also famous for its guides, which gives us complete information about the fort from the historical and architectural aspect, to help the new comers to the fort. It is one of the major tourist attractions for outsiders who are deeply interested mainly by the architecture, sculptures, spacious gardens and buildings and the interesting features of each type of quarters, which are located in every part of the monument.

Hence Golconda fort is one of the main places in Hyderabad, which can never bore the visitors of this marvellous monument and give us a beautiful experience regarding its history, architecture and several other matters, which are unknown to the tourists from Abroad as well as Northern India.

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Scope of mass communication and journalism

    What is the status quo of this subject ?

    IN FOCUS Get to know about the new subject Mass communication and Journalism, a newly                                   introduced subject in the twin cities of Hyderabad.

    Aparajitha Bukkapatanam

    Hyderabad is one of the cities, which is concentrated with the most developed technologies, shopping malls, lifestyle and especially the younger generation. But there is one aspect it's lacking- the society's approach to academics. Till today we have seen many examples of teenagers and students who have excelled in various fields of academics like Sciences, Engineering, management and several others. But if there is one subject that is not visible is Mass communication and Journalism.

Recently we have witnessed the Gang-rape issue of Damini in Delhi, which evoked many students' spirits to fight against the corrupted issue and to gain justice for the girl's life and her family. This is where many newspaper, internet and television sources come into action. When a person wakes up in the morning, the first thing he does is, opening the newspaper. He will go through the headlines on the first page and starts reading it as it's meant to create interest in him.  Even a mother's ear yearns to listen to the news early in the morning on the radio. When it comes to television sources, we always have a habit of listening to the news headlines at night time around 9pm to develop our general knowledge. If it's the case of today's younger generation who are working for some software company or any other job, he/she would download the latest apps on the samsung galaxy note, the Blackberry, the different versions of iPhone or the easy to carry iPad. Wherever you see, there is lot of development to look into the news or your favourite shows on the televisions or other electronic gadgets.  In all these fields the major concept, which plays an important role is communication. Communication of news, your favourite shows, videos or songs are possible only because of  journalists, editors, photographers, camera persons and several other people who are working hard to propagate the news through various sources. Then why can't a student take up the option of choosing mass communication as her favourite subject? Here arises the question. States like Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Chennai are concentrated with many journalists and students of mass communication who are at "cloud9". Almost everyone is preferring communications to other subjects as they feel they should make a difference in their life and achieve a standard point. So are the students in Hyderabad thinking of taking up this new subject, which has the greatest scope in the coming future. Its only that few parents don't cooperate with their children. But its time to open their eyes and go into a different world where talent, enthusiasm, hard-working nature, vocabulary skills and certain leadership qualities are mainly taken into consideration, when compared to other qualifications.  Mass communication and journalism has emerged as a new subject in Hyderabad recently and is not becoming famous as expected. It created a rage in other twin cities, improving the future younger generation to blossom in their interests of learning this exciting subject.

So should the people of Hyderabad realise the importance of this new subject and encourage their children to take up this new, but a wonderful subject. There is one aspect which has to be discussed very keenly that many parents get perturbed of the present politics in Hyderabad regarding many issues like the Telangana issue, The Akbaruddin Owaisi case and many other which are frightening even the smaller percentage of parents who are willing to encourage their children in this new field. But this fear can be removed at once when the student gets enough training in the outside world. The subject deals each and every aspect very clearly with regards to the training of the program, the experience the student needs to get and the precautionary measures during a particular situation. Mass communication is one such subject which sees through that the student is able to adjust in every kind of situation and is capable of fighting the case with braveness and patience.  Hence if there is a feeling among parents, it need not become a major issue, but rather as an unnecessary concern.

To fill in the details of this new subject, it has various fields like the Print media, the electronic media and the cyber media. Newspapers and magazines come under the print media. While, radio and television are the main sources of electronic media. The most famous and easy type of media i.e. cyber media includes social networking sites like facebook, twitter, Linkedln, Google+ , online news websites like yahoo, CNN-IBN, BBC news and many more. All these types of media provide information of  the happenings around the world and in our city. A journalist's job is to find out the various issues and to provide ample amount of information, so that the people of India get to know the latest news through their source of finding information and news. No matter where you go, news plays an important role in our lives and it is the responsibility of the journalist, the editor or the special correspondent to update us with the latest information. Hence, consider the 21st century generation plea of taking this subject as their future success and encourage your children to become the inspiring future of each and every person on this earth. 

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Anti-oxidant story

 Excite your palate with an anti-oxidant salad

 FOOD Enjoy a healthy salad this winter with a note of sweetness as well

 Aparajitha Bukkapatanam

This winter, go for something simple and delicious and enjoy the comfort of making an anti-oxidant salad at home. Anti-oxidants have been proved to be one of the major constituents to nourish your health and in maintaining your immune system perfectly. Let it be fruits or vegetables, anti-oxidants share the same characteristics of developing our immune system and to avoid diseases. Anti-oxidants play a major role in stopping the multiple growing of free radicals, which are capable of destroying your immune system causing serious health problems like cancer, brain dysfunction and heart disease. Hence, it’s necessary to have a proper intake of anti-oxidants and to be healthy and fit.

To do so, here is a simple anti-oxidant salad, which can be made in any season, to avoid the diseases. An amalgamation of pomegranates, grapes, mango or pineapples with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice is one of the best ways to enjoy the healthiness of the fruits as well as the zest of the lemon juice over the salad. Pomegranates are a rich source of Vitamin C, having a rich collection of flavonoids and potassium. Grapes, which is everyone’s favourite fruit, is also helpful in avoiding the heart diseases and Alzheimer’s disease, as they have a rich source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C and carotenes. Speaking of pineapples, they are seasonal fruits, having excessive amount of Vitamin C and smaller amount of Vitamin A. They also have abundant b-complex vitamins like folates, thiamine, riboflavin and minerals like copper, manganese and potassium, which help in controlling heart rate and blood pressure.

     Mango, being the King of Fruits, also adds a good taste to the salad, which is rich in beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, Vitamin A and C and potassium, which mainly look into curing heart diseases. Finally, the zest of lemon juice, which adds to the taste as well as the nutritional aspect, is important, as Lemon juice has a sum total of various elements like Vitamin B, C, phosphorus, proteins and flavonoids, which hold anti-oxidant and anti-cancer properties.

Lastly, for chocolate lovers, the combination of your favourite chocolate along with the salad is always the best option to go for. Chocolates are rich in polyphenols, which contain flavonoids, to control the blood’s ability to clot, thus avoiding serious heart attacks and strokes. So, go for an anti-oxidant salad and enjoy the experience of having a nutritional salad and remain hale and hearty.

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