Attention Housewives! Note these tipsFiled Under: housewives

This is just a hit and miss list which will confirm practical. Pin it up near your kitchen cabinet so that you can refer to it from time to time.

• To keep rice separated, while boiling add juice of a lemon to the water
• Add a dash of lemon juice to mushrooms when cooking them.
• If you add one spoon of milk while boiling the cauliflower, it will still look bright white.
• While boiling cabbage and broccoli, add a slice of bread to the water lessens the odour
• To prevent beetroots from discolouring, cook them with 2 inches of the stem. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to the cooking water.
• . Rub potatoes with butter before baking to improve the taste.
• To remove the bitter taste of eggplants, soak them in salted water. Then drain and cook as desired.
• Lettuce will look fresh, soak in ice water for 30 minutes and adding a little lemon juice to the water.
• To slice mushroom in even sizes use an egg slicer .
• Add lemon juice or soak onion in cold water before cutting them for salad.
• Rub potatoes with butter before baking to improve the taste.
• When making potato chips, fry them twice to get a crisp crust.
• To keep red cabbage from discolouring while boiling, add a little vinegar to the water.
• To keep the colour of vegetables while boiling, add a pinch of baking soda to the water, particularly useful for spinach.
• Add a pinch of sugar to tomatoes to enhance the flavour.
• To remove the skin of tomatoes, just dip them for a few minutes in boiling water. The skin will slip off easily.
• To keep boiled syrup from crystallising, add a pinch of baking soda or a teaspoon of milk.
• Don’t throw away bread crusts. To turn out a pudding in a jiffy, make coarse slices of the bread and add them to a mixture of milk and pudding powder. Stir in a few raisins and bake. A yummy desert is ready.
• To whip cream, pour the measured quantity into a bowl and chill. Then whisk.
• When separating egg whites (for a soufflé), break one egg at a time in a small container. This is to ensure that no egg yolk goes in.

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Foetus slips out of moving train, safeFiled Under: Foetus

AHMEDABAD: Call it good fortune or just the will of God. But the life in a seven-month-old foetus, that fell through the toilet bowl of a running train when the mother went to ease herself, still lives on!
Call it a miracle, perhaps. This tiny bundle weighing just 1.4 kg, which slipped from the womb into the toilet tube and crash-landed on rocks between two steel tracks, is from the top drawer of survival tales.
Born a good two months premature, she is recuperating in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Rajasthan Hospitals. Here, she lies without a scratch after the providential escape just before midnight on Tuesday.
“She is a fighter. In just 12 hours after the unthinkable accident, she was coming out of the accident quite well,” said pediatrician Dr Raj Kumar.
“She is a gift from God. How else can all this be explained,” the girl’s mother, Bhuri Kalbi (33), said. Bhuri is a native of Swaroopganj, located between Sirohi and Abu Road, in Rajasthan and was travelling by the Jodhpur-Ahmedabad train.
Bhuri was headed for Ahmedabad with her relatives for a medical check-up. She felt very weak on the toilet seat and passed out. The next thing she remembers is people knocking on the toilet door.
When she managed to get up to open the latched door, she realized an emptiness in her stomach. “I realised my stomach was flat. My child was gone,” said Bhuri whose husband works in a packaging unit in Ahmedabad.
Bhuri’s brother-in-law Arjun said when she opened the door she was semiconscious. He realised with complete shock what had happened. “We immediately pulled the chain at Kalol, two stations away from where the child had slipped off and alerted the train guard,” he said.
On a day when the Railway Budget was presented by Lalu Prasad, who promised ‘green toilets’ in trains, the girl can thank railway personnel for snatching her from sure death. As she lay on the track — fortunately located close to the Amblisayan railway station — some members of the Gram Rakshak Dal alerted station master KK Rai that a new-born child was lying on the track.
While rushing to the spot on foot, Rai said he could hear the cries of the baby from a distance. On coming closer, he could not believe what he saw. “The baby was lying dangerously close to the left track with the umbilical cord hanging by the side,” Rai said. The baby had turned blue due to the chill at midnight.
The railwaymen wrapped the baby in a cloth and called the local doctor. While the child was being examined, a call came, saying the parents were traced.
The mother could not believe her eyes when she was reunited with the baby two hours later at the Kalol Civil Hospital. And she just can’t take her eyes off this baby ever since.

SOURCE TOI

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Aditya Chopra and His DivorceFiled Under: Uncategorized

Aditya Chopra, Filmmaker of DDLJ and Choor Choori Chupe Chupke fame, recently finally got divorced from his wife and now intends to marry film star Rani Mukherjee.  According the grapevines the Chopras  (his father and mother) are not happy with the marriage, so to keep good terms with the alienated first daughter in law, they have gifted her with a bungalow in Juhu and some whopping crores to keep her lips lock. Aditya’s first marriage is 6 year old. Seems Rani too is following the steps of Hema Malini , Sridevi and Karishna Kapoor who all happen to marry , already married men and now that Kareena is also on the way.  May be these girls are more fascinated in braking a contentedly nuptial home and also looks like that they have an affection to men much mature to them in  epoch too.

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Smiles to rehearse at homeFiled Under: Uncategorized

1. Unadulterated smile:

This is the real baby smile, as one cannot counterfeit it.  The eyes are beamed up and a small crow’s feet is observable around the eyes. Lips are raised and parted and full set of teeth is visible.

2. Synchronised smile:

This can be done by an confident smiler as it is a hard one. The smile has to be affectionate while accumulating a presumptuous penchant body, as the smile and the body language has to be parallel.

3. Adoring smile:

This can be faked easily, because this depends upon the relationship with the person you are facing. This is done by slanting the head towards the others.

4. Courteous smile:

This is a smile used by politicians as no facial expression is visible and the eyes too does not give any expression.

5. Uncomfortable smirk:

In this head is twisted forward and eyes look away or may be even down. To be used in situation like when you are late at work or forgot to do some work given by your spouse.

6.Forged grin:

One of the lips is higher than the other one.  The eyes are glazing elsewhere.  Can be shown when you are not interested in seeing the other person.

Additional tips on smiling further:

• 1. Be optimistic
  2. Say to yourself that you were cheerful and you can be joyful
  3. Glance at things far beyond like trees, birds and planes
  4. Accept with gratitude the humanity offered to you
  5. Even if you want your friends circle or move to a new office set up, do it for the sake of keeping in the company of positive people.
  6. Always say thank you or appreciate  a person who has been grateful you.
  7. Stop thinking about people or person who always nags you or criticises you too often, ignore this person from your mind and soul.
  8. When someone smiles at you just in mid that he/she feels great about you.
  9. If you try to judge others you will feel more negative.
  10. For better feelings, hang tall upward looking things like pictures of buildings, planes and birds in your work place.
  11. And lastly, smile from your heart.

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How To Shake Hands The Right WayFiled Under: Handshakes

Tips for a positive handshake

Do’s

1. Ensure that the clutch is positive
2. The palm should be clean and hygienic and keep the fingers on the thump up position and open
3. Keep good eye contact with the person you are shaking and discharge the hands immediately after introduction
4. You break the ice first, as you should be the one to instigate action to shake the hands, if he/she is your guest/host/or behest leave-taking.

Dont’s

1. Giving a chilly/drenched handshake. At a party this can be taken care by holding the cool drink in the left hand.
2. Clutch someone as if going to press the bones and act as if to demonstrate force.
3. Shaking hands with a shamble hand, this does not generate an excellent consciousness.

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Reality BytesFiled Under: Desi General

• Riding a aeroplane is safer then riding a car or a mule
• Albert Einstein was a below average student in school
• The King of Denmark styles his own hair
• One fifth of the planet Mars is owned by Eric Clapton
• China sent 3 pandas into space in the year 1972.
• In many Southern states of India, four sided graters are considered works of Satan.
• One looses 150 calories per hour if you hit your head against the wall.
• Barbara Millicent Roberts is the name of Barbi doll’s full name
• The tomato is the world’s largest selling vegetable/fruit more than apples.
• In India, we have one language for each day, as there are 365 different languages spoken in India.
• Cows don’t have upper front teeth
• 48 years after cans were introduced , then the invention of can opener came into being.
• India produces more movies than in Hollywood
• The colour of Coca-Cola was originally green
• Hallmark makes cards for 105 different types of relationships
• Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better
• Men get hiccups more often than woman
• Switzerland attracts the most suicide tourists
• In olden times, iron cost more than gold
• Silver can destroy 650 disease-causing bacteria
• The banana will be extinct in 10 years time
• On his 78th birthday, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee received a card that was over half a mile long and covered 1,470 sheets of paper. In making the card, over 750 pens and 200 bottles of ink were used.
• The words ‘lakh’ and ‘crore’ do not exist in the English language. The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
• Vinoba Bhave burnt all his certificates in his early life. One day, while sitting with his mother in the kitchen, he burned the certificates , telling his mother that he did not require them, as his direction in life was different. He Gave up his studies in 1916, to join Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram.
• Ekambar Sahu of India allows over 4,000 bats to take refuge in his house every day at sunrise.
• The Golden Paw pets-only hotel in San Diego, California, is sheer heaven for cats. At this hotel, cats can sleep in a deluxe suite overlooking a birdfeeder with an aquarium, a television and an attendant in a rocking chair who will pet the animal.

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What your Hair Clip tells about youFiled Under: Hair Clips, Women

Hair clips are commonly used in our country by the ladies. It is a piece of evidence that the colour of your clips and the mind-set you exemplify co- relate each other.

White clips: Women preferring white clips are quite clear in their mind about the focus they sketch about or the judgment taken by them are unchangeable. These people don’t get bewildered. In fact they are explicit

Red clips: These women succumb to emotions. Regardless of looking around the environment, they divulge their opinion. They are lackadaisical.

Blue clips: They persist deliberating about a scrupulous concern but will under no circumstances come to a unambiguous finale. They come under the category of rigid.

Green clips: These people are immense rule breakers. Travels in the contradictory direction. Don’t follow the crowd. They are always inconsistent.

Yellow clips: These people find goodness in everything. Howsoever the matter may be, the hidden righteousness is seen by them. In fact they are honest.

Black clips: Very precarious, totally unenthusiastic, will count the chickens before they are hatched. Will try to explore the improbable from the probable. They come under the category of insecured.

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Jodhaa AkbarFiled Under: Aishwaria Rai Bachchan, Bollywood, Desi General, Hrithik Roshan, Jodhaa Akbar, Music, Video, Visual Computing Labs, lyrics

The magnum opus, Jodhaa- Akbar, will now be released in April 2008

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Wait, don’t blow the bugles yet. Its date of release has been announced so
often that yet
another postponement isn’t exactly surprising. The Mughal opus which was to be
released on
January 15 has been postponed to April. Not to worry, we’re talking April 2008.
Long wait
Perhaps the wait will make the heart grow fonder for Ashutosh Gowariker’s
Jodhaa-Akbar
featuring Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan in the eponymous roles. The film has
been so
painstakingly shot that its first cut clocked in at five-and-ahalf-hours. Now
all efforts are
being made to reduced the length to a more endurable three hours.

Meanwhile, many of the film’s supporting actors who gave months on end of their
dates for the
shooting schedules are simmering under their breath. More work, less pay Not
only were they
paid precious little money but had to forego other assignments - all in the hope
of getting
exposure on the Mughal-sized screen.

Yet, there is no denying that sometimes there are unavoidable delays. At
present, director
Gowariker is confined to bed because of a severe back ailment. He has been
advised to rest in
bed for two months, or so goes the trade talk. He is not taking phone calls or
responding to
SMSs.

First, the film produced by Gowariker with UTV was scheduled to be released
during the Diwali
season. It was then shifted to January 15 and then again to February 24.

CAST:

• Hrithik Roshan … Emperor Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar
• Aishwaria Rai Bachchan … Jodhaa
• Abir Abrar … Bakshi Banu Begum
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda … Raja Bharmal
• Sonu Sood … Rajkumar Sujamal
• Suhasini Mulay … Rani Padmawati
• Shaji Choudhary …Adham Khan
• Mrs. Punam S Sinha… Mallika Hamida Banu
• Digvijay Purohit…Rajkumar Bhagwan das
• Pradeep Sharma…Sheikh Mubarak
• Rajiv Sehgal…Raja Viraat
• Gurmmeet Singh…Raja Shundi
• Balraj…Raja Balraj Singh
• Yuri…Bairam Khan
• Disha Vakani…Madhavi
• Indrajeet Sarkar…Maheshdas/ Birbal
• Sudhanshu Singh…Raja Shimalgarh
• Nikitin Dheer…Sharifuddin Hussain
• Rajesh Vivek…Chugtai Khan
• Surendra Pal…Rana Uday Singh
• Raza Murad…Shamsuddin Atka Khan
• Ila Arun…Maham Anga
• Pramod Moutho…Todar Mal
• Pramatesh Mehta…Chandrabhan Singh
• Visswa Badola…Saadir Adaasi
• Manava Naik…Neelakshi
• Sayed Badrul Hasan…Mullah Do Pyaaza
• Dilnaaz Irani…Salima
• Tejpal Singh Rawat…NiMat
• Raju Pandit…Raja Bhaati
• Bharat Kumar…Raja Chauhan
• Jassi Singh…Raja Bhadra
• Ulhas Barve…Raja Mankeshwar
• Abir Abrar…Bakshi Banu Begum
• Aman Dhaliwal…Rajkumar Ratan Singh
• Shehzor Ali…Raja Hemu
• Sanchita Kaur… Special Appearance
• Amitabh Bacchan… Narrator

Crew

• Production Design: Nitin Chandrakant Desai
• Visual Effects: Pankaj Khandpur (Tata Elxsi - Visual Computing Labs)

The track list is below

1. Jashn-E-Bahaara - Javed Ali
2. Khwaja Mere Khwaja - A.R.Rahman
3. Mann Mohana - Bela Shende
4. In Lamhon Ke Daaman Mein - Sonu Nigam, Madhushree
5. Azeem-O-Shaan Shahenshah - Mohd. Aslam, Bonny Chakravarti

But it seems quite strange.We dont have anyone singing for Tansen,He is very much in the movie as the cast suggests.
I was expecting a classical song in the voice of AR.
Anyway one thing is clear Jashne has been sung by Javed Ali and not by some Anurag Kashyap as claimed by some forum members before
Music launch stills:
Attending the event were Sonu Nigam, Javed Akhtar, Akbar Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Zayed Khan, Hrithik’s wife Suzanne Khan, Shatrughan Sinha, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Raza Murad, A R Rahman, Ashutosh Gowarikar, and of course the stars of the film Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai. Jodhaa Akbar all songs (Lyrics and Translation)

In lamho ke daaman mein (In the intimacy of these moments)

In lamho ke daaman mein, paakeza se rishtey hain
(In the intimacy of these moments, there are some pure relationships)

Koi kalma mohabbat ka, dohratay farishtay hain
(The angels are reiterating the spiritual song of love)

Khamosh si hain zameen, hairaan sa falak hain
(There is a silence in the land, the sky is amazed)

Ek noor hi noor sa ab aasaman talak hain
(There is a radiance right upto the skies)

Nagme hi nagme hain jaagti soti fizaon mein
(There is melody in the active and asleep surroundings)
Husn hain saari adaaon mein
(There is beauty in all your grace)
Ishq hain jaisi hawaon mein
(There is love in the air)

Kaisa yeh Ishq hain, kaisa yeh khwab hain
(What kind of love is this? What kind of dream is this?)

Kaise jazbaat ka umda sailaab hai
(What kind of a flood of emotions have gushed in?)

Din badley, raatein badli, baatein badli, jeene ke andaaz hi badle hain
(The days have changed, nights have changed, conversations changed, the mode of life has changed)

In lamho ke daman mein, pakeeza se rishtay hain
(In the intimacy of these moments, there are some pure relationships)

Koi kalma mohabbat ka, dohratay farishtay hain
(The angels are reiterating the spiritual songof love)

Jodha’s lines:

Hmmm, samay ne yeh kya kiya, ho…badal di hain kaya
(What has time done to us, it has changed my flesh/skin)

Tumhe maine pa liya, mujhe tumne paaya
(I have found you, you have found me)

Miley dekho aise hain hum, ke do sur ho jaise madham, koi zyaada na koi kum kisi raag mein
(We have met like as if two harmonies meet of a rythmn, neither high nor low)
Ke prem aag mein, jalte dono ki hai tan bhi hain man bhi, man bhi hain tan bhi
(As if in the flames of passion, both burn our body and soul, soul and body)

Akbar’s lines:
Mere khwabon ke is gulistaan mein, tumse hi to bahar chayee hain
(In the garden of my dreams/reverie, you have brought the beautiful springtime)

Phoolon mein rang mere they lekin, in mein khushboo tumhi se aayi hain
(The flowers have my colours, but the fragrance is from you)

Kyu hain yeh aarzoo, kyu hai yeh justju
(Why do these desires exist, why does this search lives on?)

Kyu dil bechain hain, kyu dil betaab hain
(Why is the heart so impatient, why is it so impulsive?)

Din badley, raatein badli, baatein badli, jeene ke andaaz hi badle hain
((The days have changed, nights have changed, conversations changed, the mode of life has changed)

In lamho ke daaman mein, paakeza se rishtey hain
(In the intimacy/companionship of these moments, there are some pure relationships)

Koi kalma mohabbat ka, dohratay farishtay hain…..
(The angels are reiterating the spiritual songof love)

p.s. Kalma means Beginning of a verse in Quran, implying a spiritual/holy song

Man Mohana (O lord Krishna)

Man mohana, man mohana
(O lord Krishna)

Kanha suno na, tum bin paaon kaise chain
(Oh lord Krishna listen, how do I find peace without you?)

Tarsoo tumhi ko din rain
(I crave for you day and night)

Chodke apne kashi mathura
(Leave your Kashi mathura behind)
Aake baso more nain
(And come and dwell in my eyes)

Tum bin paaon kaise chain
(How do I find peace without you?)

Tarsoo tumhi ko din rain
(I crave for you day and night)

Verse 1

Ik pal ujiyaara aaye, ik pal andhiyara chaye
(One instant its is brightness, the other moment its all darkness)
Man kyu na ghabraye, kaise na ghabraye
(Why wont the heart fear, how wouldn’t it be anxious)

Man jo koi doraha apni raho mein paaye
(When the mind is on the crossroads)
Koun disha jaaye? Tum bin koun samjhaye
(Which path to follow? Who other than you would explain?)

Raas rachaiyya vrindavan ke gokul ke vaasi
(The dancer, the one who resides in the vrindavan(Forest) of gokul)

Radha tumhri daasi
(Radha is your servant)

Darshan ko hai pyaasi
(Shes craving to see you)

Verse 2
Shyam salone nandlala Krishna banva ri
(The dark skinned, lovely , soulful Krishna)
Tumhri chab hai nyaari
(Your form is gorgeous)

Main to hoon tan man haari
(I have surrenderd my body and soul)

Man mohana man mohana
(O lord krishna. O lord Krishna)

Kanha suno na tum bin paaon kaise chain
(Oh lord listen, how do I find peace without you?)

Tarsoo tumhi ko din rain
(I crave for you day and night)

Verse 3
Jeevan ik nadiyaa hain, lehro lehro behti jaaye
(Life is a river, its waves flow on and on)

Is mein man ki naiyya doobey kabhi utar jaaye
(The heart’s ship sometimes gets drowned sometimes it is saved)

Tum na khevaiyya ho to koi tat kaise paaye
(If you are not the guide, then how will one reach their destination)

Majhdhaar behlaaye, toh tumri sharan aaye
(If the waves get turbulent, then we come in your refuge)

Main hoon tumhari, hain tumhara mera yeh jeevan
(Im yours, and my life is yours)
Tumko hi dekhoon main, dekhoon koi darpan
(I see only you in every reflection)
Bansi ban jaaongi, in hoton ki ho jaaongi
(I’ll become a flute and belong to these lips of yours)
In sapno ke chalkar hain mera man aangan
(In these dreams, I find the home of my heart)

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Grapes are sour theory :says Star PlusFiled Under: IPS, Indian Police, Mr. Keertan, Nach Baliye, Rakhi Sawant, Star Plus

As Everyone Knows Rakhi Sawant on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against Star Plus channel, alleging them of cheating after she lost in the finals of reality show Nach Baliye 3.(read related article under this category on bestdesi)

Star Plus in turn has rejected the charges of malpractice and called the whole fiasco as nothing but just a publicity stunt by Rakhi. They even refused to comment on the police case filed as claimed by Rakhi.
Mr. Keertan, Executive Vice-President & General Manager, Star Plus says, “Currently we have not received any communication either from Rakhi or from Police. We feel this is just a publicity stunt by Rakhi just like all other publicity stunts. We would not like to comment until we receive a clear communication.� Mr. Keertan also cleared the allegation of the faulty voting system saying, “We have not done anything of the sort. She is alleging lot of things, throwing a lot of allegations in the air, but where is the evidence to prove any of these allegations?

Tomorrow anybody in the street can charge anything on anybody. Without any evidence or proof, you just cannot speak out.�
Seeing the manner in which the controversial star, Rakhi has gone all out, the channel feels that this is more of a case of a sour looser. “See, till she made it to the finals and other couples were getting eliminated, everything was right. So what happened now? Essentially we would say it’s a simple case of Grapes are sour theory�, says Mr. Keertan.
What Do u Say Friends Is this really a case of ‘ Grapes are sour ‘ Or What Rakhi stated is Correct ?

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