Chabi village, Dindori District, MP

27.01.2015

 Chabi village

We reached Sahapura via Kundam Road (MP). From here we took left turn for Manikpur village about 10 km. from Sahapura.. This is basically a tribal village, it is different that the tribal population is now only 5% and mostly this remote area has been occupied by migrants and opened shops of the items of day a to day requirements . The main crop of the Banjar(stone mix soil) land is KODO & KUTTI.. Another 15 Km. from Manikpur a place is known as Ghughri which is famous for Lata Shankar temple and cave. Due to lack of time I could not visit this place.

We return from here to Sahapura  Bus Stand and taken a left turn for Niwas Road. We took again a left turn after moving about two km. for Mahidwani. We taken a tea break at Mahidwani for half an hour then moved onwards. Four km. from here we reached Sirsi and then two more km. to Kathouta. From Kathouta if we take right turn and move about a km. there is a beautiful pond named Kikar Kund, surrounded by pictorial scenery. However due to my friend who was not feeling well we could not go there.  In my next visit I must go there and take some photographs.

From Kathota we have to move about twenty km. onwards to reach Chabi village. Just before 10 km. from Chabi there is beautiful dense forest valley starts on right side of the road and ends at a lake. People may enjoy picnic at this pictorial scenery.

 

LUCKNOW KA MAKHAN

LUCKNOW KA MAKHAN:

This is a delicious sweet dish of Lucknow .
The ingredients are: milk,sugar dry fruits and silver foils(chandi ki warak)
The only market of this delicious dish is  GOLE DARWAJA,CHOWK,LUCKNOW
{My ancestor's house is one Kilometer from this place in a colony Sondhi Tola, more than five hundreds years old.}

                                                     LUCKNOW KA MAKHAN

 

GOLE DARWAJA,CHOWK,LUCKNOW

KHATTI PALAK (Sour Spinach ) ki Chatni

KHATTI  PALAK (Sour Spinach ) :

KHATTI  PALAK (Sour Spinach ) : This type of spinach is cultivated in a limited area of KANPUR DEHAT, UTTAR PRADESH. Its leaf and stem are bitter sour in taste just like (KACHCHI AMBIYA) unripe mango. This KHATTI PALAK is used as CHATNI, not like vegetable.

 

Leaf of the KHATTI PALAK

  

Seeds of KHATTI PALAK

Process to cook : Wash the PALAK two three times with water and chop it . Put pan on the burner. Pour half a spoon of cooking oil in the pan and add HING (Asafoetida or asafetida) , chopped green chili and ginger(quantity as per taste). After few seconds add the chopped Palak and two tea spoons of water in it and close the lid of the pan. Keep the flame of the burner at slow. After five minutes, remove the pan from the flame. The CHATNI of KHATTI PALAK is ready to serve.

 

The appropriate season of its cultivation is November to January .

KALI (buds)KACHNAR KI SABJI & RAITA

KALI  (buds)KACHNAR KI SABJI & RAITA :

                                 
                     Buds of KACHNAR  (Bauhinia variegata)and its flower

Put buds of KACHNAR in the boiling water in a container and close the lid of the container and let it cool down. On cooling down, filter the water and remove the water content of the boiled buds.

Prepare Masala (gravy) of your taste and then add the boiled buds in it and let it cook for five minutes. The vegetable would be ready to serve.

The boiled KACHNAR buds could be used for another dish  the RAITA. Processed the curd for preparing the base of RAITA i.e. put salt ,black piper, cardamom powder, green chili/red chili as per taste then add boiled KACHNAR buds.

KACNAR buds are very good for health.

                                                            (The tree of KACHNAR)

My trip to Beijing & Great Wall of China

My trip to Beijing & Great Wall of China

Few important photographs of historical importance are as under:

                                                           Exhibition ground

                                                               Forbidden City palace

                                   I met with Mr.Prabhu Chawla at the Forbidden City

Great Wall of China

People are putting locks there for full fill of their wish

My trip to Shilong (Meghalaya)

(Bada Pani Lake)

(Pine Wood Hotel)

                                                                  ( Seven sisters fall)

(source of the seven sisters fall)

(Masumasai Charch -1848)

    

The capital of Meghalaya is Shillong. Meghalaya was previously part of Assam, but on 21 January 1972, the districts of Khasi, Garo and Jaintia hills became the new state of Meghalaya

Robert's Cave, Deharadun

 Robert'sCave, Dehradun: It is about five Kilometer from Sahatra Dhara, Dehradun.Uttrakhand. It is a beautiful narrow  cave with big opening -the two hills are joining at height of about sixty feet  and at some points are little bit away and so the cave have sun light. throughout the passage about 50 meters.

The water which is flowing continuously in the cave is hot at some places and at some places it is cold. 

When we reached at the end of the cave there was a heavy waterfall from a height of about 7 feet from a hole 

from where sunlight was also falling and making the water golden and some time reflection of rainbow colours.. We took bath and enjoyed. I went there in the year 1994. It was a matter of surprise that the people of Dehradun were hardly knowing about that place. Yes it is in a remote area and we have to reach there after crossing agricultural fields.The entrance of the cave recalls the Novel of Devikinandan Khana"CHANDRAKANTA"

Vijay Nath Sondhi