Surya Prakash Jayanti

I tried the below varieties of culinary art in the recent past. I am not mentioning about the Indian food, which I love to great extent, other than that I tried below International  food tastes of course all of that I tried are veggies. Here is the order in which I prefer and few words about that country. Ethiopian : It is the only country in Africa which has alphabets. Its one of two countries in Africa, which is independent since long time. Earliest trace of human race is found here in the world. Injira is similar to Indian Dosa and it is Fantastic. I would love to eat this food again. Mexican: I liked Chipotle. Veggie rice bowl, taco, burrito are good. I can eat veggie rice bowl without getting bored. Italian: It doesn't need much introduction. I like Pasta,  Lasagna. Pasta prepared with  marinara sauce is my favorite in Italian dish. I like the American food chains like Pizza hut, Burger king, Sub way etc.,  Pakistani ...

I watched Shashi Tharoor speech on India as a Soft Power, I liked it and here are some things which caught my attention. Elephent (India) and Tiger(China) are becoming next world power. We have worlds 4th largest Army. We will overtake china by 2034 in Population, becoming worlds number 1 in population. We have 5th largest economy in the world. We are growing constantly at 6.7%, when worlds largest economies are shrinking. Somehow this is not adding up to the soft power. Hollywood, Pepsi, Coke, McDonald's helped America become a soft power. They have done more than American Govt in making US soft power. Countries are judged on the popularity, communication, information, branding as soft power. We are larger than US in terms of Telecommunications. Once in India there was 8 years long wait time to get telephone connection. Now we are selling 15 million cell phones a year. Bollywood is slowly crawling to world cinema. "Kyon ki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi" is dubbed into ...

If Obama can send troops to Afghan for war and receive a peace prize. If KCR can do so called Fasting to death and get a state All Developed nations can escape from rigorous climate control rules Liberhan commission on Babri demolition can give his final report nearly after a decade. Why the hell I can't  get what I wanted :-) Looks like the year is closing with many surprises.  This is a funny and short story !!! Take it as a story only don't take it to heart or your dirty mind. One suggestion If you ever want to take something to heart, try taking it to your hand before :-)  let it be short and sweet story !!!

I don't have any articles in the recent past. Well actually I am little busy in petty things like cooking and eating :-) Lets see what stuck my mind today. Its about separate state agitation in Southern part of India. Some people want separate state Telangana from  Andhra Pradesh --> India --> Asia, that is the farthest I can identify it globally. Some how I strongly believe the recent political turmoil in Andhra has to do with EX CM. Once the strong CM (he was good or bad) passed away, things are getting destabilized in Andhra. I personally believe, dividing country into smallest possible pieces will not get progress. We are still fighting with neighbor states to resolve Water Resources. One thing I can clearly understand from this issue is, its very easy to raise the sentiments of people. A politician can bring emotions out of people by quoting religion or region or language or caste etc., But unfortunately there is only one way to unite people i.e the inten...

Geeta is not my girl friend name, though Jayanti is my sir name. Its all about Bhagavad Geeta birth day on Nov 28th. In my earlier article I explained one of my favorite verse in Bhagavad Geeta, the link is as below: http://jnsuryaprakash.blogspot.com/2009/08/qualities-of-stita-prajna-bhagavd-gita.html Today I will introduce another verse from third Chapter it is known as Karma Yoga (Eternal Duties of Human being). na hi kascit ksanam api jatu tisthaty akarma-krt karyate hy avasah karma sarvah prakriti-jair gunaih The meaning of this verse goes like this. One can not remain without engaging in activity anytime, even for a moment. Certainly all living entities are helplessly compelled to action by material nature. Krishna explains Arjuna, how he can not dis engage himself from duties. Happy Reading !!!

I don't want to be controversial, but I have right to express my opinion. I am reading many stories on objections from a community about singing VANDE MATARAM, National Song of India. (Not national anthem) I found some interesting things on it and I want to share it with my readers. One communal organization in India has declared ban against singing Vande Mataram, due to the song giving a notion of worshiping Mother India, which is unislamic. The song was written in 1876 and first it was sung on political meeting in 1896. The first two stanzas describe greatness of the country and later it will start comparing mother India to "Durg Matha". Please remember we are singing only first two stanzas. In 2003, ‏BBC World Service conducted an international poll to choose ten most famous songs of all time. Around 7000 songs were selected from all over the world. According to BBC, people from 155 countries/island voted. Vande Mataram was second in top 10 songs. The Song: Va...

I attended art of living session today, much awaited session on Breathing Exercise, Pranayam and Meditation. Thanks to Kapil for introducing me to some meditation techniques. For those who don't know, Art of Living was found by Sri Sri Ravishankar in 1981. It is serving in more than 150 countries. He developed Sudharshan Kriya, its a form of meditation. We Breath in immediately after birth and breath out at death. That is the importance of the breath. So in short breath is life. Emotions have close relation with breathing. Your breath will be shaky when you are unbalanced. When you are concentrating you will take deep breaths, when you are angry you will take short quick breaths. When you want to enjoy the sense of scent of a flower you will take deep breath. Mind oscillates between past and future. You can achieve more if your mind stays on present and with attention. Mind clings on to negative things quickly. Meditation means not just concentration, the effect of meditat...