Indian Idol

Oct. 2 nd was Mahatma Gandhi 's birth anniversary known as Gandhi Jayanti. It has been declared as International Non Violence Day by the UN.

An editorial in the Hindustan Times newspaper says;The first thing you notice in the picture (of the bank note) is Gandhi smiling,which is delightfully wicked.The editorial goes on the say ; while Gandhi 's soul -bending battles with injustice can never be underplayed, the manner in which he defused critics and churlish adversaries should be a lesson to many of us today who start foaming at our mouths or worse each time we feel slighted.Imagine how Indians would have responded to Winston Churchill 's 1931 jibe of Gandhi being a 'half naked fakir ' today.Replying to a journalist whether he didn 't feel under-dressed to meet the King in his dhoti (a cloth wrapped around his waist). Gandhi replied,"The King has enough on for both of us".Gandhi indeed was a great man. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize , but was set aside.Now the Nobel Committee regrets it.Gandhi was deeply influenced by Christ and the sermon on the mount.

On the right- school children dressed like Gandhi and his followers.

Got a phone call from a cousin who is living abroad.She married twice and both her marriages have failed Her first husband was an Italian and the present one is British.She just made wrong choices, got them from the Internet.There are so many Internet marriage horror stories.

Yesterday I got an electrician to do a lot of electrical revamping in the house.And I watched a useless movie called "Single White Female-Psycho 2. Just to get over India 's poor performance in their cricket match against Australia. Now lets see how these Indian idols fare in Friday 's match in Hyderabad.Chak De India!

Sunday Blessings

Today a young man called Ujjwal gave the message in church. In his testimony he said he was a drug addict for 10 years.Wanting to kick the habit he went into rehab for a year. It was a very difficult time for him, but he came out of and dedicated his life to God and wants to serve Him.Praise the Lord!

Yesterday I baked brown bread. I used wheat, soya, chickpea,millet flours and Quaker Oates in it. And I threw in our garden honey and Maple Syrup (from Canada) with all the other stuff. Its my own recipe. It turned out really good.We had that with home made tomato soup.I got the picture from the web but my bread looks very similar.

Now I 've got a tandoori chicken in the oven for dinner.Its a spicy roast chicken which you can have with either rice or nan, vegetables , potatoes etc.I got the easy recipe from www.manjumalhi.co.uk her recipies are really good, and easy to make.

Its planting season, so in our garden we will put down potato,onions, garlic, ladyfinger, gourds (lauki, toorai) beans, cauliflower, cabbage,carrots, radish, beets, herbs, (fenugreek, coriander etc.) spinach, mustard and aniseed plus more. We 've already got some stuff in.Tomorrow I will go to buy fertilizers.The above picture was taken earlier this year.