THE CHEAPEST CAR IN THE WORLD.

THE CHEAPEST CAR IN THE WORLD.

The cheapest car in the U.S. is the $9,995 Chevrolet Aveo from GM. In Japan that distinction goes to the Daihatsu Esse at about $6,000. In Europe the Dacia Logan from Renault SA starts at just under 8,000 euros ($11,900). As per the news report ,with 107-hp,1.6-litre Ecotec engine capable of 26 mpg city ,34 mpg highway ,the 2009 Chevy Aveo5 of General Motor is going to be the cheapest car in the U.S. But how much cheap? It is yet to be disclosed. But for now, my friend may have a look on this photo and video to get a feel of AVEO5, the name derived from its five doors.

AVEO5

But can you think of a car which comes almost one fourth price of the present cheapest car of U.S. market and much less than the half of the price of the present cheapest car of Japanese market? I know my Indian friends might be feeling like hitting on my face for writing about this old news which happened on the 10^th of January 2008.Well, I think the news is not stale enough to present and its aroma shall linger and linger.

Yes, I am talking of NANO from the house of TATA. It is the cheapest car in the world with a price tag $2500. It is not an apology of car. The 4-door 4 seat 33-bhp 2-cylinder car, powered by a 643cc rear-mounted engine will meet Euro 4 emission norms. Although it is 20 percent shorter in length than Maruti 800, the present cheapest car in India, Nano has 21 percent more space and runs 20 km/liter. It is likely to hit the market in the second half of 2008, probably around festive season in October. Just have a look on this photo and video to get a feel of NANO.

NANO

The NANO is a watershed in independent India’s business history for two important reasons. Its affordability gives it the potential to be the most inclusive innovation of Indian corporate sector so far. For the first time in this country, those on the fringes of the middle-class can hope to fulfill their aspirations of owning a car. The second reason has significance as at present only 8 Indians out of 1000 own a car which is one of the lowest levels in the world. With the arrival of NANO, there is an every possibility that car would cease to be a status symbol. See what Mr.Ratan Tata, the Tata group chairman says while presenting NANO in Delhi’s Auto Expo on 10^th of January 2008.

I will conclude this blog with another piece of great news that NANO will soon arrive in the European market.

According to Reuters, Girish Wagh, head of compact car projects at Tata Motors, confirmed to German magazine Focus the Nano would reach Europe within four years. "We will develop a successor model in four years' time which will meet the Euro 5 emission regulations and the crash standards in Europe," Wagh was quoted as saying.

Thanks Mr.Ratan Tata. Your small car has made every Indian tall.

GAYATRI MANTRA.

Gayatri Mantra.

SISHUPALGARH,2500 YEARS OLD CITY IN ORISSA.

SISHUPALGARH,2500 YEARS OLD CITY IN ORISSA.

CHANDAN'S 10TH CLASS EXAMINATION.

Start:	Mar 3, '08 09:30a
End:	Mar 27, '08 2:00p

Who is Indian in India?!

“You do not find Indian in India. You find either Hindus or Muslims.” My weak memory does not help me to recollect from where I read these lines. My initial hunch tells me that it might be from the book “Freedom at Midnight” written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. But a quick and cursory glance on “Freedom at Midnight” did not help me to locate the quoted sentences though the chapter-“WALK ALONE, WALK ALONE” of the book deals extensively about the Hindu and the Muslim of India and the difference they possess. But one thing is sure that I did read those sentences from a book dealing with Pre-Independence scenario in India.

But the present happenings in India, particularly in the city of Mumbai, bring back the ugly and grotesque reminder of the sentence. “You do not find Indian in India.” Thanks to Nehruvian wisdom of creating Indian states in linguistic basis the second sentence requires little modification. “You find Marathi, Gujurati, Tamlian, Bihari, etc and etc”. We have forgotten the word “our.” It now “my,” “my” and “my.” My state. My city. My language. My water. My river. Everything has become “My’ and “I.” I am Marathi. He is Bihari. I am South Indian. He is North Indian. But where is Indian? Sad but true! This is the state of affair after 60 years of independence. Who is behind the creation of these ugly sentiments?

Or May be, we are inherently like that and we have not forgotten the Pre-British era of being ruled under numerous princely states. Each state covering barely a few square miles and there you find a King or MAHARAJA whose name along with his succeeding and preceding designations assumes a length more than the length between the one extreme corner to the other extreme corner of his kingdom. And the great MAHARAJA shall use his subjects at his whim and fancy. Most of the times you find those Maharajas are in battles with each other. Who becomes victim? Whose blood flows? It is of poor subjects. The common man.

Well, things have not changed much until now, I suppose. You only find a subtle change. The numerous princely states have been replaced by numerous political parties and Maharajas by Political Leaders. And those battles still exist in form of narrow political issues. But unfortunately the victim remains same. The common man. And for the present common man, the political leaders have become more powerful than the erstwhile Maharajas of Pre-British era because of the availability a potent weapon naming Audio-Visual Media. News reporting particularly Audio-Visual media has off late assumed a new dimension. There is a mushrooming of 24*7 News channels. But from where shall you get new News throughout the day? So the old marketing adage has come into the play. If you want to beat the market then you create the market. Hence for Audio-Visual media, it is “create the News” and if required, camouflage it. No harm. Everything is right in love, war and business. Ethics are for fools.

Now let us see how one of the present day’s so called Maharaja and the potent weapon at the hand of Maharajas’, the Audio-Visual media behaved in the recent Mumbai episode.Yes, the Maharaja is Raj Thackeray and the Audio-Visual media are the National News channels. I have no privy to vernacular Marathi media. Hence no comments about that.

The issue raised by Raj Thackeray is about influx of people from other states to the city of Mumbai. He considers these outsiders are burden on Mumbai and they have contributed nothing towards the growth of the city. He feels that North Indian culture is eroding away the Marathi culture. His supporters roared up with the call of the leader. Mumbai witnessed sporadic violence. Couples of North Indian taxi drivers were bitten up and their taxis were damaged. Raj played his political card for his popularity and the media picked up the thread. The sporadic incidents which might have gone unnoticed had it happened few years back became a hot News and video footage of the violence was telecast again and again to flare up the sentiments of people. Do you call it responsible journalism? Not only that you had many discussions on News channels where so called intellectuals vomited their intellectuality.Debated.Redabated.But as usual remained inconclusive in their conclusions. And when Raj was arrested one of the leading English news channel made a live telecast on that with running commentary by its Editor-in-Chief. I wonder whether it was arrest of Raj Thackeray or a Republic day’s parade! See how we made a HERO out of a PUPPET.

Coming back to the issue of influx of people to Mumbai, I do not think only outsiders are benefited in the process. It is mutually complementary. Mumbai is benefited too. It does not require an intellectual brain to understand the common economic equilibrium of “Demand and Supply.” Influx to a city shall take place as long as the city has a demand. If the city does not have a demand the influx shall die down automatically. If it is not true then why industries in Nasik of Mumbai have come to stand still after 10,000 North Indian left the place?

Those who left are “the common man” and those who are going to suffer because of this temporary closure of industries are also “the common man.” Who suffered in the violence of Mumbai? Again “the common man”. Who got benefited? Ah! “The politician.” Who made it possible? “The media.” Be aware Indian! Let us not allow anybody to question again. Who is Indian in India?!

LIFE IN SARTUN'S MOON?

LIFE IN SARTUN'S MOON?

DEAD HEART STARTS BEATING-2

SEE THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.

LIFE IN MARS?

LIFE IN MARS?

HUMAN HEART BEATING IN A MACHINE.

HUMAN HEART BEATING IN A MACHINE.

LARGEST SWEET MARKET IN THE WORLD? OOPS! CERTAINLY LARGEST RASAGOLA MARKET IN THE WORLD.

Just imagine more than 50 shops in two rows with combined areas of nearly 40,000 sqft occupying both sides of National Highway No.5 of India and making and selling only three verities of Milk Sweets–RASAGOLA, CHHENA PODA, and CHHENA GAJA. That is not all! Believe me, the 95% of their combined productions amounts to RASAGOLA, the National Sweet of India. If you put all these shops in a modern shopping mall with adequate shopping areas, eateries and other facilities of a modern shopping mall, I am sure those shall occupy nearly 80,000 sqft. Will that not make the largest Sweet Market of the world? No! Ok. I am sure by shear volume of production it shall make the largest RASAGOLA Market in the world. The place I am describing is a tiny village named PAHALA, on National Highway No. 5, some 12 kilometers between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack of the state of Orissa. And here you find the champion Sweetmeat-makers, call Rasgola-makers of India. Every motorist, every trucker, every two-wheeler rider must pull off the Highway and come to a stop before one of the sweet stalls. First, everybody satiates himself by sitting on a wooden bench inside one of the stalls and eating to his heart’s content. Then parcels are packed and taken away for the people at home.

Now please have a look on this video above which shows that Sweet Market of Pahala. Please do not get confused by seeing those advertising boards of Telecommunication companies and other products. Yes, sweet shops of Pahala display advertising boards of other products for their Rasgolas need no advertisements.

Here is another video describing about Pahala and the Origin of Rasagola and how Rasagola is prepared at Pahal.

It is believed that the famous Rasagola and other similar sweets which are commonly referred to as Bengali sweets actually originated in the kitchen of Lord Jagannath temple at Puri and later were introduced in Bengal by the cooks of Orissa who were employed by rich Bengalis. Kheer or Payasam which is one of the most common desserts enjoyed all over India is originally from Orissa where it is called Kheeri. Incidentally the kitchen of Puri Jagannath temple is one of the biggest in the world where hundreds of skilled cooks work to produce fifty six varieties of offering for the deity every day and this is fed to over 10000 devotees. According to centuries older convention, the Hindu divinity of Jagganath in Puri is presented with Rasagola at the conclusion of his emblematic journey, during the Rath Yatra every year.

The Rasagola at Pahala comes in five sizes. The biggest one is as big as an apple. These are not the standard, rubbery Rasagola of Haldirams, K. C. Das, Sen Mahasey and Gongurams in neighboring Kolkatta. These are a softer version, more creamish in color than white, and not as spongy as the Bengali Rasagola for sure. The Pahala sweet-makers allege that one of the reasons why the Bengali Rasogola is tougher than theirs, is that the Bengalis want a longer shelf-life for their product. They add arrowroot powder to their Rasagola. In Pahala, they mix 25 gms of sooji with 1 kg of chhena (cottage cheese) in the making of their Rasagola. To this is added elaichi (cardamom) for flavour. A dough is made, it is rolled into little balls, and deep fried in sugar syrup. The sooji is used to hold the chenna together in the deep-frying stage. The Pahala Rasagolas sell for Re. 1 to Rs. 5 a piece depending on the size. They taste divine!

Visit this link if you want to order for Pahala Rasagola.

http://pahalarasagola.com/default.aspx

Rasagola, of course named in various names in different parts of India and some of the names are Rashogulla, Rasagolla, Rashogolla, Rasgulla, Rosogolla, and Rasgula, meaning JUICY BALL.

If you are interested to know the recipe of Rasagola, visit

http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/rasagulla_rasgulla

HAPPY RASAGOLA EATING MY FRIENDS.

May be some other day and some other time I will describe Chhena poda and Chhena gaja for you.