Tea - The Indian Drink - Flavour and Flavoured!

Tea is the thirst quencher for Indians. The drink of China and Japan is also the secret for the longevity of youthoood in Indian race too!!!

Tea known for the voluminous antioxidants, flavanoids and phenols powered with the milder theamine is a rejuvenating drink that does no harm. This do not dehydrate but rehydrate and is good for your heart. India is a tea-drinking country.

I want to list out the different varieties of tea.

Milk Tea and Black Tea: Milk tea is tea brewed in milk with sugar added to taste. Black Tea brewed in water and drunk with sugar or jaggery added to taste. Milk tea has its advantages of milk absorbing all the harmful phenols and other chemicals in the tea, black tea is considered to retain the medicinal properties of tea intact. Black Tea is known to reduce weight. Both use fermented tea leaves. 

Indian Teas:

Masala Chai: It is milk tea mixed with spices like cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. the proportion of spices make the tea is an identity to many households. 

Butter Tea:Butter  tea is also known as Gur Gur. It is made of yak butter, tea and salt. This tea is suitable for high altitudes as it provides a good amount of calories that need to be burnt. 

Kulhad Chai: Tea served in kulhad, clay pots are kulhad tea. There is an alternative version when the kulhad are made hot on tandoori stove, brewed in these hot kulhad and served in cold kulhad. 

Amrut Tulya: Mumbai version of tea made with freshly ground ginger, cardamom and few other spices. The tea is made in brass vessel and is served sweet. 

Mamri tea: Like how coffee is brewed and served fresh, tea leaves can be crushed, torn and curled and served fresh. This is common way of serving fresh industry tea in Assam and Nilgiris. 

Herbal Teas: Herbal teas are tea leaves infused with or homogenised with herbal leaves from various resources like chamomile, shoeflower, lemon, lemongrass and so on. 

Green Tea: Green teas are made from fresh green tea leaves that are not fermented but dried and made into tea leaves. They contain catechin that make them very healthy alternative to black tea. Green tea are infused with lemon, honey, ginger and a number of other spices to give the flavour and taste. 

Tea is such a drink that one finding it "taaza" reviving the spirit. 

Reducing Thrash - Small Efforts Bigger Contributions

Small efforts will reap bigger contributions. Thrash is a menace; global weather is fluctuating drastically to blame of climate change. Let me list here what small deeds of us can lead to bigger contributions. I don’t have the statistics but I have the ideas and deeds listed out: 

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Give up single-use plastics. Use paper cartons and clothe bags. It’s fun to carry your bag to the market. 

2.     Switch off lights as much as possible. 

3.     Use technology wisely and less. The more you rest and indulge in other forms of leisure your emotional bonds also will grow.

4.     Stoop throwing garbage on the streets. 

5.     Turn off your TV and computer in the office as you leave the room or desk.

6.     Do group events or family leisure time. 

7.     Grow trees

8.     Keep your vehicle clean and smart that uses nominal fuel and doesn’t form soot.

9.     Stop burning your Agri produces in mass

10.  Electrocute organic material

11.  Judicious use everything in our daily lives

12.  Encourage nature-based products for decoration

13.  Use leaf based and organic material for your family gathering and business conference souvenirs and dinners

14.  ….add your points to this list

Consumerism - Unspoken stressor to Indian Corporates

This is my opinion and observation. Stress, depression, and burnout are the buzz corporate words. People just have the habit of saying they are feeling depressed when the fact is their body and mind are only stressed. How can one stay with them if they are depressed?

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When you face physical fatigue and a mental block, this is only a burnout. Consumerism, your needs forcing you to do workloads of others, is the one that forces you to exert your body and mind. This results in burnout. Continuing and stretching your burnout for your buying sprees is only stress. What to do that we desire and the society sells clothes that wear out after wearing for 2 or 3 times. The consumeristic economic strategies are to be blamed.

Then when you are depressed. You are depressed when you don’t feel the stress and burnout; your buying spree is uncontrollable and you stock up beyond your needs. Your addiction makes you depressed when is not satiated. Depressed that was once a societal taboo these days has turned out to be a fancy word today, without which you are considered normal and odd one in the crowd.

To be normal should one be depressed?

What make FATS - Good or Bad?

If you are working 8 hours a day and give hours at the desk, then you are leading a sedentary lifestyle. On the contrary, if you are going to a gym, walking daily to the office, or actively doing physical exercise then you are leading an active lifestyle. 

The carbs and proteins that you consume despite the fatty avoidances will still form the bad fats in the body from these sources. They form cholesterol and are deposited beneath the skin. Even when you are active these fats do breakdown but make the scenario worse by getting into the blood circulation. Thus these fats pose you to higher risk. 

If you don't consume good fats then you will lose the fat homeostasis in the body causing a number of ailments. The good fats will scavenge these bad fats and keep them in balance and you safe. So consumption of good fats is mandatory. The good fats are the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids that are found in avocado, nuts, and fatty fishes. So consume these daily in proportions and increase your protein intake especially when you plan a weight management schedule.

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An Hour of Animal Helper at Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Center

On the day of Lohri, 14^th January, 2020, which is Bogi in my state of Tamil Nadu where I was born, I decided not to sit with my computer searching for opportunities but spend some break off and relax with animals. I had the day planned with an evening for an alumni event at the Australian High Commission with the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Scott Morrison, in pressing times when I was really wanting a break back to Australia. But the event stood cancelled. And, that didn't push my spirits back to my system in search for a job. So, I took the local metro in Delhi only with the comfort of standing to SGACC, both to and return. This required me to take a hard ride on shared auto as well to their animal hospital for “Indian Roads”. I was dreaming of helping as in Animal Planet series like being a paravet or a helper to the vets but they gave me a broom and dustbin to help their “animal helper” whom I will call as “animal housekeeper”. I took up the job.

SGACC has a root to Australia and so I dropped to them claiming my Australian alumnus status too. We are entitled to do some charity as a give back to the country, especially in collaboration of our passion beyond work. What I always loved are the love-seeking stray animals beyond my own life and my pets that are part of my family. I used to feed the stray and celebrate or share my Christmas time. Thus, my charity is usually taken for granted as I don’t spend “the money”; I was challenged. 

My day was fabulous, as the housekeeper is a very honest woman who asked me to leave the bag and get started. We mutually shared our tactics to clean these animal droppings. I taught her some of our family tactics like using the “dropping powder” everywhere first before starting to pick up that the smell will go away. But she taught me many things in return to get her job done. This was a challenging experience for me as I took the puppy place where there were dogs and cats, specifically a golden brown, a black and white puppy and a cat. The black and white puppy was tamed and it knew that the room will be messy if it didn’t allow me to clean. However, the golden brown was such a big challenge – it was heavy too – wanting my pampering and kind hugs than focus on cleaning its mess. I had to explain it and told it to stop snatching the broom from my hand. On top of this was the black and white cat which was matured enough wanting to purr on my lap when it saw my comfortable squatting position to sweep away the dirt as a desirable it’s purr placement time. Dollie, the housekeeping lady assured me that they behave in this manner with everyone. But how one can forget the sighs when I removed their dirt and monitored interestingly me cleaning up their messes. Never knew how much they missed covering their dirt with sand. I wish they had sand floor in their compartments and is open, if not for the warmth they need during the winter season and the need to tame them for adoption to a home.

Needless to mention, my spondylosis was a real challenge. I could not do my work bending and so I started to paralyse for the amount of physical activity involved. Yet, I wanted to overcome this challenge and took it up till the end. I know I may not have cleaned entirely with Dollie having to dig up the hard and long-time dried stains, which when I asked her about her daily duties. I mopped the entire floor and I learnt the trick of the clothe used by housekeepers.  Yet I found I only won the challenge that I made for myself as I only had to fight the muscular pain later as I enjoyed the hot water bath and sleep on retuning back to hostel. Even otherwise I would have faced for sure this muscular pain for the physical activity involved but probably at a lesser intensity. I was finding awe at the immense stamina that Dollie has to clean up these sheds on daily basis. 

What makes these sheds very difficult to clean are the sofas and pillows they have, but still the cats and dogs, know that they should not dirty them? I’m curious how and where they learn good habits which they don’t do at our home. Is it because we don’t let them be the beast they can be?  

What we can do to these animals who bark in the street and fighting for us only for a wave of greeting at them or occasional bites or a pat that they fight for us from miscreants. So, what the cat does or get in return and keep away the pests away from our houses? I realised that sharing my kindness made me feel good and loved – I had someone wanting love in return and are harmless and is pennies lesser.   

My Christmas poem for 2018

Christmas Biochemistry

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Roaring out in laughter,

Belly fat jumping up and down in joy,

For the season is “Oh...oh...oh!”,

‘‘Tis Christmas season,

Shooting up the endorphins,

Dwindling down the cortisol,

Giving life a balance to fill with joy and hope.

Twinkling stars lighting the dark clad sky,

Lit by moonlight soaring melatonin high,

But Santa’s sleigh speeding past with sparkles that fills stockings, 

Decored houses with many longing happy hearts sleeping tight,

Dreaming of boxes to be opened,

Filled with warmth that has packed love and joy,

Releasing pheromones that is to rapture the Spirit of Christmas.

Jingling bells and hopping choirs with lanterns leading the way,

Shedding warmth to these late-night Christmas messengers,

Knocking doors with joy thumping up a bash of adrenaline,

Sharing ecstatic applause to emulate serotonin into action,

Doesn’t these fill the season with joy and merry? 

A reason to wish everyone and X’changing undoubtful smiles!

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What to Serve on Christmas Day?

Christmas symbolises Hope and Peace which in turn brings Prosperity meaning good food, health, wealth, family and people.

Something that my family focuses on Christmas Day celebrations as a tradition is to plan the day’s recipe.

I thought this Christmas that I will collate the global recipes and their base ingredients into one single post. I want to share this as I want people to prosper and never go without food.

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Let’s do it alphabetically:

Angola: Corn meal or cassava flour food, rice, spaghetti, French fries, turkey, fried chicken, cold fish with vegetables, fired fish or beef with tomatoes, garlic, ladies fingers, sweet potatoes, spinach, grilled fish with palm oil beans. Dessert is Bolo Rei cake.

Argentina: Roasted turkey, pork or goat, creamy anchovy and tuna sauce, stuffed tomato, salads, tuna sandwiches, tortillas. Dessert: Christmas bread, pudding, fruit salads, ice cream, pies, sweets like chocolate resins, sugar coated almonds, peanut butter.

Armenia: Rice, fish, chick pea, yoghurt, wheat soup. Dessert is dried fruits and nuts, walnuts in grape jelly, bastukh.

Australia: Cold Christmas dinner, barbecue, prawns, lobsters, seafood. Dessert is Christmas pudding.

Austria: wine, fried carp, roast turkey, roast goose. Dessert is chocolate, apricot cake, gingerbread, Austrian cookies.

Bangladesh: Rice with chicken and vegetable curries. Dessert is rice cake and rice pudding.

Belarus: 12 dishes. Kuccia, pancakes, fish and mushrooms. Dessert is oatmeal fruit, berries and potato starch with milk.

Belgium: Crisps, mini pizza, soup as starters, game or seafood, turkey or chicken, potato croquettes. Dessert is ice cream cake.

Bolivia: Stew or soup of chicken or beef or pork, corn, potatoes, salads, roast beef or turkey. Dessert is tropical fruits.

Brazil: Pork, turkey, salads, dried and fresh fruits, rice cooked with raisins. Desserts is tropical and raisins.

Bulgaria: Rich vegetarian meal, cabbage leaves stuffed with rice, beans soup, peppers stuffed with rice, boiled wheat with sugar and walnuts. Dessert is pastries, dried fruits, oranges.

Canada: Roast turkey with vegetables, mashed potatoes, vegetables. Dessert is Christmas plum pudding, mincemeat tart, Christmas crackers, Christmas fruit cake.

Chile: Barbecue chicken, turkey or pork. Dessert is Chilean Christmas cake, Christmas drink.

China: Apples. Brussels, sprouts, turkey. Dessert is Christmas pudding.

....

Then what about India?

Biriyani is favourite lunch accompanied with dishes that can be vegetables or non-vegetarian; and salad. Desserts will include cake and a range of Indian sweets and savouries. Plum cake is the hot, stolen bread and such are served after church service during coffee fellowship. Ice cream is also a favourite dessert. Chiristmas cookies and chocolates are other favourite. Christmas breakfast and contemporarily dining outside has become a family event on Christmas night. Family games and worship are also entertained with family members.

How to pack a power-filled snack for a break?

Here's how I make my power snack for the break?

Snack boxes to your child or for yourself is admonishable if filled with fruits or junk food. Junk food for health and fruits are considered not trendy and time-consuming.  Maybe fruits also rot by evening. So the best is to pack neutral snacks like these power snacks that also keeps you as much awake like fruits.

Biscuits are not good for your health as the sugar and flour can make you supped? Best is to replace your snack boxes with digestive, oatmeal or whole grain cookies with or without sugar and low or salted crackers. They form the base for your power snack.

What to fill in? Pack your snack box with a pair of salad leaves, peanut butter, cheese slices and egg omelette. Egg omelette can be replaced with chicken and ham sausages, carrots and cucumber and a wide range of options to choose from. They make great and sumptuous fillings between a pair of biscuits.  They also help your clock ticking and are best for the extra hour that you will need to keep you working. They are also satiating and prevents you fall from slumber. They are best energy boosters for an afternoon snack.

Thus you are going to find yourself checking on your weight as well with these power snack. Worthy Indian versions are vadai made of lentils and whole grain sundals which also meet your daily dietary needs.

Never resort junk food and make yourself worser and soggy.

What Makes THE PILL Different from Hormone? What's THE PILL is in India?

I write this blog following this status update I made in my LinkedIn Profile:

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THE PILL is all that people wanted to know more of and the reason for the misnotion and chaos. I never wanted to know. Why? For I believed, whatever be the tablet they are asking me to take - even if paracetamol or a chewing gum - I have as citizen of this democratic India to file a FIR for being black mailed and if doped, a hurt and mischief complaint. But, when they spelled the word "modus", this created a stir for people were aware that they are asking to use this tablet as "THE PILL". This was going on since January 2014, but I know that the mass was stirred on 7th June 2014 at 5:30 A.M when a woman in the village started threatening me to abuse with these drugs...blah...blah..and then followed the stir asking all the unmarried women in that area to use these drugs. Why me? I know on 6 June 2014 this village woman calling herself was under the custody of soldiers and they wanted me to use the drugs for the armed soldiers troop questioned this nicknamed woman, "amelio ponnu/person" for intimidating me. I was not aware as to why she was under their custody; and her father was also stirring up something in the Commissioner of Police Office in Madurai with the guards on duty at Meenakshi Amman Temple, which also I witnessed on 5 June 2014. My aim now is to mend "THE PILL" awareness for I know that the increased stir to use this "modus"drugs has stirred in an interest to people to "use the pill" as "emergency contraception".

Let me make clear certain facts of "THE PILL"and the modus or "Hormone Tablets"!!!

I need to write this and hopefully, I wish no more of this heated discussion around me to threaten abuse or possibility of being abused, please!

"THE PILL" are the contraceptions that are also made of the same hormones called the sex hormones: they can be "THE MALE PILL"or "THE FEMALE PILL". Hence, accordingly the pills are made of sex hormones of single type or in combination that in dosages used will not cause harm or alter the natural hormonal balance in the body to cause medical complications unlike the misuse and abuse of HORMONE TABLETS that will cause serious medical complications including death.

Let me write in this blog more of THE PILLS as I have already written of the hormone tablet in my previous blog:

There are nearly 16 different ways of effective contraception method for a couple who do not prefer to have a baby wants to adopt. All they need to do is discuss their doubts, anxieties and needs to a good health practitioner, preferably an adrologist or a gynecologist. This is the couple's choice to decide with the physician and is between the couple to decide as to who will go for the contraception. Why public or employer or a brahmin or an authority?

With advent of technology and racing with time, stress being the buzz word, as the reproductive age spans from 15 to 49 years, adolescent maternity and late maternity are of increase and both of which are prone and cause for increased maternal death rate when the pregnancy is unplanned. So the Government of India has dedicated this year, April 11, National Safe Motherhood Day, for reducing maternal deaths. While they discuss of women's reproductive rights being violated by refusing to prescribe contraception when unmarried and/or without husband, this is also the right of the women to refuse to use such "pills" for need of employers and peers or any other reason, including on a married woman by her own husband without her consent which is equivalent to marital rape.

Talking of THE PILL:

There are two types of THE PILL: the regular monthly contraception and the emergency pill.

The Regular Monthly Contraception:

These will include the use of daily pills which can be made of progesterone only (POPs or progesterone patch or lotion) or combination drugs like Mala-D. However, gone are those days and the contemporary trend is to use spacing contraceptives as tablets (non-hormonal, Chhaya) or injectables (hormonal, injectable contraceptive-MPA). Besides there are a number of pills that are hormones and are used as oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy, but they come in a pack that are designed for contraception. These pills, thus, will not turn overdosage as will be administered in synchrony with the natural cycle without impacting the hormonal balance.  These pills are of three types: monophasic, biphasic and triphasic based on the amount of progestin and estrogen they release in a day.

Emergency Contraception:

These are the pills that are used when the regular contraception fails or unexpected and unprepared sexual intercourse has happened that can lead to unwanted pregnancy. There are a range of these pills available in the market and they work to prevent pregnancy when consumed within 12 to 72 hours, the maximum, soon after the "unexpected moments".

How do I conclude this topic? I wonder is this possible to post all you wanted to ask me or tell me and not able to open up directly as a comment here? Is this possible that you can change your opinion on reading this for a open-minded and casual direct discussions if you want one? Is this possible if you will learn to ask me if you are curious or learn manners and not to commit crimes by miusing these kind of pills for your doubts and gossips of that handsome chap as my probable husband? Is this possible for me to imagine that I conveyed the message that THE PILL and Modus you threaten to use are not the same? Is this possible that I imagine that Modus or THE PILL are not cultural stigma products but are chemicals used in treatment? Is this possible that I imagine that you will stop blasphemy in name of your religion to increase the market value of these products or make you answer my questions?

Falling in Love - The Story of Progesterone

Progesterone is produced as a tablet. This is a steroid tablet and is used as a drug to go "high" - anabolics.




But what is the real implication of this drug in our lives? We need to know more.

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Biological Role of Progesterone:

I do not intend to focus more on this perspective of progesterone which is well-established and is very well known to many of us. In a gist the role of progesterone has the following physiological effect every month in a successful ovulatory cycle:

1. The secretion of egg stimulates the follicle cells by the lutenising hormone to secrete less progesterone and estrogen. This continues till successful ovulation and formation of corpus luteum.

2. The corpus luteum starts to secrete progesterone. This is to aid in the preparation of the utreus to receive this egg in a bed of tissue that will provide, anchor for development of baby with enough blood supply, oxygen and nutrients.

3. The progesterone secretion continues until the peak is reached and the egg is received. If the egg is a fertilised egg the secretion of progesterone will continue. If not the unfertilised egg will stimulate the inhibition of progesterone and estrogen secretion leading to bleeding with discharge of disintegrated tissues in the uterine lining.

These are the 3 primary roles of progesterone in biological cycle.

The following chart displays level of hormones as monthly cycles:

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This is  CLUE as why and what people are doing and will have an implication on the monthly synchronised cycles to the biology of individual's physiology by doping with modus. PLEASE STOP!!!

Copulatory Behavioral Role of Twin Hormones:

Esterogen: Estrogen are known to do the following: female willingness to approach a male; increases the attractiveness of the female and "primes" for progesterone.

Progesterone: Progesterone has a dual role: in small amounts this will incease and supplement estrogen activity to sexual receptivity to men and libido effects during sexual intercourse; while continued use of progesterone will increase the tendency to reject sexual activity and indulge in nurturing the developing baby if pregnant. If not pregnant, this is when the contraindications of prolonged abuse of progesterone tablets will be effective.

Common contraindications of progesterone: Fatigue, dizziness and an increase appetite. There may be more severe and serious symptoms like breakthrough bleeding, menstrual cramps, bloating caused by water weight gain, moodiness, nausea, irritability and tiredness. They mimick PMS but are not PMS. Very rare symptoms will include fainting, depression, severe headaches, vision problems, breast tenderness and trouble sleeping. Stroke, blood clots and heart attack are very rare effects.

Progesterones have the ability to inhibit bleeding while estrogens stimulate bleeding and increases bleeding levels. This is why progesterones are used to treat people with heavy bleeding or abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB).

Needless to say, without an active sex life the use of these hormone tablets, especially the doses of "birth control pills" is not recommended for the contrainidcations will be amplified. This is because the sexual activity by itself will arouse umpteen physiological elicitations in the body that may in turn will have an implication in reducing the side effects of these tablets.

Needless to say, please do not use these tablets without an appropriate health practitioner's consultation and use it only for yourself. This is why these are Schedule H drugs or prescription drugs that requires to be sold only with the prescription and administered by the physician only after consulting the patient in a proper manner.

N.B: Personal Email from Minister of WCD, India for taking action as despite reporting twice of drugsters red-handed for lack of knowledge and perspectives despite "lecture time" - I still, however, await to receive my FIR copy 

Dysmenorrhea Diet Plan - Fit and Healthy!

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Dysmneorrhea is painful periods and is often considered as a misnomer with heavy bleeding. However, the fact is the painful period is often associated with heavy bleeding on more than 95% of the cases. In rare occasions, patients are observed to have scanty bleeding symptoms associated with dysmenorrhea pain.

Dysmenorrhea in the first few years of menarche are called primary dysmenorrhea. People do say this condition usually continues until the first pregnancy, rather than child birth. Any other reasons that can lead to dysmenorrhea besides medical complications including stress are called secondary dysmenorrhea.


What happens during dysmenorrhea? The pain before and during the first two to three days of periods has been attributed to the cramping of the abdominal muscles which is due to the incapacity of the muscles to be flushed liberally with blood and so scanty oxygen leading to dehydration and pain called cramps.

Usually doctors put people on pills. Yes, but of course, before reaching to a doctor, is best advised to make small lifestyle adaptations and find for yourself the difference. Probably in four to five months one may even forget the pain existence. The reason is majority of the women are forgetting the need for a healthy diet for the voluminous work that the womb does – preparation for bearing a child and so the need to flush it with nutrients and pamper your uterine muscles like how a man will pamper his biceps!

After all a biceps needs so much, then why not a woman’s uterine muscles!

Here’s a small diet plan that I devised to beat the pain with healthy diet and fitness regimen:

1. Choose a regular course of exercise regimen – especially stretches and kegels for the abdominal and pelvis muscles for about 20 to 30 minutes a day .

2. Start the morning with a glassful of water or a cup of relaxing green tea with lime.
Jump start your day with loads of antioxidants – fruits mixed with calcium, minerals, vitamins and fibers – oats or wheat meal cooked in milk. Supplement with toast and egg. Toast and egg could be replaced with the regular idli and dosa but lesser in number with or without vada as usual on an Indian morning menu. If you have space once in a week an additional course of mushrooms or tofu is a very healthy and energetic way to start the day.


3. Pack the lunch bag with regular rice or chapathi. Toss with veggies, sambar or lentils and curd. Needless to say, pack your bag with fruits and a glass of lime juice for the break. What matters is the proportion – eat nominal quantities of rice and increase the fiber content in form of veggies. Besides, while choosing the vegetables the choice is important. When the plan is a starchy vegetable then is best to pack chapathi than rice, and if rice is best to toss with high-fiber veggies and lesser quantity of rice. Cheese and pasta overloaded with veggies and /or chicken and fish are not only relishing but highly nutritive.

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4. Soon on returning home, is again time to refresh with a glass of milk only if there is a need to replenish then a glass of lime juice using the other half of the lime. There are numerous healthy Indian snacks like peanuts to nut mixtures which are nutritious despite the trans-fat if purchased.

5. What’s the dinner plate to be filled in? Simply the best way is to alternate with chapathi and rice as opposing to lunch. Sometime people may resort to idli and dosa. Whatever be on the dinner plate, is best to include enough fiber and a good practice to take a banana for desert to finish the day with enough loads of minerals. Moreover, is also good to include whenever possible a good quantity of lean mean like chicken and fish and red meat like mutton.

6. Throughout the day drink plenty of water and sleep sound for minimum 8-9 hours a day.
This is always good to take a breath of fresh air even on the terrace or somewhere out in the cool air, relaxing and reading a book or playing with a pet or by the sea.

7. I include a regular portion of nuts like sesame, flax seeds, dates or raisins and regularly organ meat to increase the blood flow and reduce the inflammatory chemicals at work.

8. Nevertheless relax and set your moods under control (I hardly have a problem with my mood) but for the shift in energy seeking more rest for the body, by using simple aroma techniques like preparing bathing hot water with jasmine or other flowers and applying my own "yellow wonder bathing powder". 

I believe, dysmenorrhea can turn to be a myth if we can learn to feed our women properly and make them healthy and fit! Feeding the uterine muscles to stay healthy strong flushed with enough blood and oxygen will regulate your periods. 

The causes of dysmenorrhea can be very many. Your uterine is not an isolated organ. There are very many other organs, especially urethra. Just like how during pregnancy the growth of your baby can affect your urinary continency so the infection and discomforts of urethra on uterine. Yet another organ parts are the colorectum. All the three regions are governed by the movements of the lower pelvis floor muscles. So any affect on these muscles can effect the working system of all the three or one or two of them. They are not independent but the muscles are intertwined.

The Brahmin - Concluding Chapter of the Dhammapada of the Compassionate Buddha

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Cross the river bravely, Conquer all your passions, Go beyond the world of fragments, And know the deathless ground of life.

Cross the river bravely, Conquer all your passions, Go beyond your likes and dislikes And all fetters will fall away.



Who is a true brahmin? Him I call a brahmin Who has neither likes nor dislikes, And is free from the chains of fear.



Who is a true brahmin? Him I call a brahmin Who has trained his mind to be still And reached the supreme goal of life.



The sun shines in the day; In the night, the moon; The warrior shines in battle; In meditation, the brahmin.


But day and night the Buddha shines In radiance of love for all.
Him I call a brahmin Who has shed all evil. He is called samana, “the serene,” And pabbajita, “a pure one.”



Him I call a brahmin Who is never angry, Never causes harm to others Even when he is harmed by them.



Him I call a brahmin Who clings not to pleasure. Do not cause sorrow to others: No more sorrow will come to you.

Him I call a brahmin Who does not hurt others With unkind acts, words, or thoughts. His body and mind obey him.

Him I call a brahmin Who walks in the footsteps Of the Buddha. Light your torch too From the fire of his sacrifice.

Not matted hair nor birth Makes a man a brahmin, But the truth and love for all life With which his heart is full.

Of what use is matted hair? Of what use a skin of deer On which to sit in meditation, If your mind is seething with lust?

Saffron robe, outward show, Does not make a brahmin, But training of the mind and senses Through practice of meditation.

Not riches nor high caste Makes a man a brahmin. Free yourself from selfish desires And you will become a brahmin.

He has thrown off his chains; He trembles not in fear.
No selfish bonds can ensnare him, No impure thought pollute his mind.

Him I call a brahmin Who fears not jail nor death.

Wanting nothing at all, Doubting nothing at all, Master of his body and mind, He has gone beyond time and death.

Him I call a brahmin Who turns his back on himself. Homeless, he is ever at home; Egoless, he is ever full.

This is the concluding chapter of the Dhammapada of the Compassionate Buddha. The word brahmin literally means &ldqauoone who is worthy of knowing God” (Brahman). Translated by Eknath Easwaran in The Dhammapada (Petaluma, California: Nilgiri Press, 1985).

Machli - Tigress Vigour - Life Journey in a Gist

Tiger Vs Tigress - Tigress wins...and here stands in the Asian tropical forests of Indian sub-continent, a magnificient hunting beast and an untamed roaring cat that shakes the forest grounds of Ranthambore National Forest especially when is time "hunting". People and teh officials named her, Machli, for the fish-shaped mark that was spotted on her face. A cub that stepped into this forest in the year 1997 when marked by the officials with the "conservation code T-16", did not realise that they are recording "an everlasting memory". Every step of this tigress and her life turned out to be "forever in our memories" in their lives. This beast grew popular for her magnificience and grandeur hunting skills and propagation.

She roamed ever nook and corner of the forests leaving a mark of her presence:

a. The lakes turned out to be her favourites cooling rest spots and so Lady of the Lakes:



Chilling Out



She cooled herself

b. She shows off her elegance over these rocky enclaves and so Tigress Queen of Ranthambore:

Jungle Boy's Sharekhan

Queen's palace, Royal Bengal Tigree Machli

c. She gave birth to 11 cubs in her fertility years between 1999 to 2006, and her partners were Babu Ram, Nick Ear and X-male (twice); and so was favouritely called "Queen mother of Tigers" - 7 female and 4 male cubs; this attracted tourists to the forests to see her pride of her cubs and helped the officials to earn a name pointing her as effective conservation including 100 million US Dollars - therefore they honoured her with a "Lifetime Achievement Award":

Machli and her 3 cubs: T17, T18 and T19

d. She roamed the forests in agility and valoured her strenght in hunting for prey and saving her cubs:

Her hunting skills



e. Her feat in hunting was demonstrated when she preyed on a 14 feet muggler crocodile creating a world record and was then on known as "Corcodile Killer" with loss of two canine teeth:

World Record Hunter Tigress

Her life became a history and she turned into a renounced VVIP animal when BBC aired her life history documetnary in 2012 in the Natural World serial epsiode: "Queen of Tigers: Natural World Special" and Tiger Queen. Adding to her recognition, in 2013, Government of India honoured her with a commemorative postal cover and stamp.

She had a royal send off on 18th August 2016 when the forest officials, Y. K. Sahu was notified of her death in the Ama Ghati Checkpost after an official post-mortem. She lived a legendary life of 20 long years, the longest life span for the Roarer, Oldest Tigress in this decade.