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Sunday, 18 September 2011

[www.keralites.net] Iran's Ghashghai Wedding

The Ghashghai are Irans largest nomadic pastoralist (pastoral farming) group who live in Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan province. Each year they travel with their flocks from Shiraz in the hot season to the winter pastures near the Persian Gulf. -Photos by Reuters

Ghashghai people sit inside a Siah Chador (black tent) as they wait to perform.

A Ghashghai man wearing traditional clothes holds a gun inside a Siah Chador (black tent).

Ghashghai people escort the bride riding a horse as she makes her way to the wedding ceremony.

A man dances at the wedding ceremony.

Ghashghai women dance as part of the symbolic traditional wedding ceremony.

The men play a traditional game called Dorna Bazi.

A Ghashghai man lights fire for the traditional wedding ceremony.

A Ghashghai woman adjusts her scarf

Thanks & Regards, Raj. Kumar(Courtesy to Dawn Web Site thru' Deepak)

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[www.keralites.net] Time to swap these terminologies . . . .

The law of the wild says kill only when you are hungry!!!

Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya 's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw:

"These three brothers (cheetahs) have been living together since they left their mother at about 18 months old,' he said. 'On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to play together. 'At one point, they met a group of impala who ran away. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily'".

These extraordinary scenes followed.

P Save a Tree.Please consider the environment before printing this email

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[www.keralites.net] 1 lakh school children fed by ISKON in Mumbai alone 12 lakhs all over India

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)'s daily feeding programme for children in the city's municipal and government-aided schools has reached a figure of 1,00,000 meals.

The organisation now plans to set up its third kitchen in the eastern suburbs to reach more children in areas like Trombay.
The feeding programme, started by Swami Radhanath, the founder of ISKCON's Chowpatty temple, began with 900 meals for a Parel school on August 16, 2004. "We did not have a special kitchen and cooked the food at the temple's kitchen. Many devotees were sceptical since it involved huge responsibility. We started with smaller number of meals and gradually increased the quantity," said Radha Krishna Das, all-India director of ISKCON Food Relief Foundation.

At the automated kitchen at Tardeo which was set up in 2005, 12 cooks prepare 64,000 meals in a compact 1200-square space. The food is cooked with steam and a fire stove is used only for making the tadka or tempering for the khichdi.

Work at Tardeo and at the other kitchen at Mira Road begins just after midnight when attendants put together ingredients for the khichdi, recipes for which are approved by dieticians at ISKCON's Mira Road hospital. While the main ingredient for the meal is rice, other constituents like the dals and spices are varied over the week so that the children get a variety in flavours. ISKCON's school meals are made to suit local eating habits: Rice, sambhar and curd in schools in Andhra Pradesh, puris and paranthas in Delhi and in Haryana, rotis.

The food is transported to the schools in steel containers that contain 10 kg of khichdi which is enough to feed an average class of 40 students.

Food is an important part of religious celebrations at ISKCON's and some members even jokingly call their movement a 'kitchen religion'. Most ISKCON temples have a vegetarian restaurant attached and one of the most enduring photographs of Swami Prabhupada, the movement's founder is of him in the kitchen, looking at the gastronomic requirements of his devotees after catering to their spiritual needs.

Since the mid-day scheme is jointly administered by the union and state governments, ISKCON gets the main ingredient rice free along with a 'cooking charge' of Rs2.60 per meal from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Transportation costs and staff wages take the cost of making a meal toRs 4.50 and the gap is bridged by donations from devotees.

Recently the state education minister Rajendra Darda asked ISKCON to provide mid-day meals to 20,000 children in municipal schools in his hometown Aurangabad.