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Ugadi is the New Year's Day for people of the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India. The name Yugadi or Ugadi comes from the Sanskrit words Yuga (age) and Adi (beginning): The beginning of a new age. Yugadi or Ugadi falls on Chaitra Shudhdha Paadyami or the first day of the bright half of the Indian month of Chaitra. This usually falls in late March or early April of the Gregorian calendar. People from the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh use the term Ugadi, Karnataka uses the term Yugadi and Maharashtra uses the term Gudi Padwa and as Cheti Chand by Sindhis for this festival. According to popular belief, legend has it that Brahma began the creation of the universe on the day of Ugadi. He then continued creating days, weeks, months, and years to keep track of time. Thus, Ugadi is believed to be the first day of the creation of the universe. According to the lunisolar calendar, Ugadi marks the day when a new astronomical cycle is set in mo...

With growing distractions and increasing stress, the world is sleeping less and less. But without sleep, there is no good life. There's a very popular shonda rhimes show called grey's anatomy. You might have seen it. A medical drama about a group of doctors at a hospital. These young, extremely good-looking doctors are running around the hospital, fighting to get their hands on the most complicated surgeries in a bid to become world-class surgeons. There's just one problem. They don't sleep. In many episodes, they are found declaring sleep is for the weak. Or I’ll sleep when I am dead. Or snooze you lose. The doctors don't want to lose. It's understandable. However, what isn't understandable is why these people who supposedly spent at least five years in medical school haven't learned the value of sleep. Popular culture has time and again undervalued sleep. Successful people on tv are always burning the midnight oil, pulling all-nighters, drinking copi...

Vicky Donor is a film about the importance of donating sperm to help childless couples starring Ayushmann Khurrana, trying to make sense of his wayward life, hoping to get a job somewhere brought in by a well qualified infertility doctor to supply him with high quality sperm, Dolly Ahluwalia, Yami Gautam and Annu Kapoor in the lead roles directed by Shoojit Sircar is a Bollywood comedy drama film produced by actor John Abraham. Dr. Baldev Chaddha (Annu Kapoor) is leading in Delhi, a clinic specializing in assisted reproduction, and a sperm bank. However, his business is in trouble and start to make our doctor goes in search of the ideal donor whose sperm would be as infallible as the warriors of Alexander the Great. Eventually he found it in the person of Vicky Arora (Ayushmann Khurrana) which, however, does not pay from mine. Vicky is a lanky 25-year-old only son of a widow who scrapes by helping his mother in her beauty salon in expectation of a lucrative job and, if possible, not...

The story of a young man who joins the army due to poverty, runs on the race track to satisfy his hunger, wins medals for the country, but one day picks up a gun and becomes a dacoit. Actually this is a true incident, but it has all the filmy masala. There is sports, victory, romance, action, emotional drama and the sad 'The End' too. We are talking about the film Paan Singh Tomar. Biopics are a tricky field. Though the filmmaker has the advantage of telling a beautiful story, it is also a burden to bear it. The story of soldier and master athlete-turned-dacoit Paan Singh Tomar is quite interesting and thankfully it was in the right hands of Tigmanshu Dhulia. Paan Singh Tomar was an army man who represented India in 1958 and was a seven-time national winner in steeplechase. Tomar is a common man who joined the army for his motherland and sports his love for food. When his cousins join hands to grab his land and the local police refuse to help him, Paan Singh is forced to beco...

Finland is a fascinating destination in many ways. It is the land of the Northern Lights, Midnight Sun, Santa Claus, saunas and a thousand lakes. More than ten years ago, I visited the Finnish Lapland. It is a trip that I keep a very gratifying memory since it allowed me to enjoy that wonderful show that is the aurora borealis at 23 degrees below zero. Finland is the gateway to Lapland at Christmas, Santa Claus, the land of elves and reindeer, the huskies and snowmobiles. There is also the wild nature dressed in white in winter. the extraordinary beings that survive this climate and the boreal camps on the banks of a good fire. Imagine for a moment looking at the world from its top, from the North Pole, and take the piece that defines the Arctic Circle. We entered the most polar areas of the planet, a category that was born with that trip to the Antarctic in the opposite extreme. We also explored Svalbard, Greenland and Lofoten Islands in Lapland Norway and that today lives a much more...

You have to give one thing to the Bhatts. Theyve rarely been applauded for absolute originality but the themes that they choose; in each of their stories have ample ambition that heightens the drama eventually delivering quite an involving tale. Gangster, Zeher, Murder, Raaz, Jism most of them borrowed from our beloved Hollywood folks - have stories that have been suitably tailored to the countrys commercial flavor. Talk of bootlegging, Sonu Dilli KKC (Emraan Hashmi) is a dealer in illegal arms and is a miniscule part of a massive racket. Pursuing him is ACP Pratap, a cop who cannot function without consuming sufficient doses of alcohol. While Sonu is of the ideology that everyone must possess a gun (so everyones an equal), hot-headed cop wants every constituent of an illegal bullet wiped off. His intentions lie not in extensive social welfare but are triggered out of a personal vengeance which is explained through a laborious back-story. It proves its worth though, in the very end, ...

This was the crudest route of our entire trip. We waited for hours by train, bus, and car until we reached the Periyar National Park, a tiger reserve. We could have done it on a roll but it would be crazy. From Anantapur, we left for Bangalore and Mysore but en route we visited the Jog Falls and the Ranganatha Temple of the ninth century on the island of Srirangapatna. Tipu Sultan established his capital here while opposing the forces of the East India Company in four wars until it fell under siege in 1799. Arriving at the Anantapur station we stock up on cookies and water bottles. We knew it was going to be a long trip. Buying food to get on an Indian train is a little ridiculous because, at each stop, there are lots of vendors with baskets and buckets full of food. They sell samosa, chai, and other delicious foods. But when you are traveling for a few days you can take a risk and we had to be a little cautious with what we ate. When the train stopped we had the doubt of where to ...

The pizza is a tart of Italian origin made of wheat flour bread dough spread with tomato coulis, and other ingredients like cheese, salami, mushrooms, onions, ham or olives and baked in wood, gas or electric oven. Originally from Neapolitan cuisine, the pizza is one of the dishes of Italian cuisine that has established itself almost everywhere in the world, often adapting to local tastes. It is a dish of artisanal processing in most cases, although the food industry has been presenting, since the 1950s as a food comfort in supermarkets. At present, several companies distribute it at home. The most accepted origin is in ancient Rome, where it was customary to make circular bread and after cooking, cut it into portions as with the current pizzas. Then it is possible to deduce that the origin of the pizza is due to the addition of extra ingredients on this type of bread. The ancient Greeks covered the flat bread with oil, herbs and cheeses. The Romans developed the placenta, a flat brea...