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Flames Furious than Fire

  Flames Furious than Fire     "I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me." Joshua Graham     "Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind" Robert Green Ingersoll   “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”     Alexander Pope   Anger and hunger two great faculties, present in the Universe and in all His creations men, animals, birds even vegetations and physical features of the earth, climate and space, even of the universe but it is only men who can control worse of the two the anger.   Lucky blessed are, who have not seen in life the flames furious than fire: I happen to see but not consider unlucky God is gracious: they burned much higher, brighter and reddisher   than fire actual, much more destructive than fire which converts into ashes the physical only: anger - the emotional demon- fire does not burn anger, makes it   sharper,   a...

I Take My Dinner

  I Take My Dinner   "The dinner hour is a sacred, happy time when everyone should be together and relaxed."   Julia Child   “Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.”   Charles Maurice de Talleyrand   “You make every Vegetable, even an tastiest one a “Dal”, even “Paneer” is Dal   for you ”, my Bride said to me in a sarcastic tone, when I visited my in-laws second or third time after marriage way back in 1973: fact is every meal Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and even Supper is “Roti” for Punjabis although “Lassi”, “Gur” and raw “Onions” are integral part of most meals: one thing is great about Punjabis they like to take meals in   a family that was the culture with my parents and in-laws too and Dal was and is the most common dish – Dal Makhani-Black whole Urad Dal or Dal Shagama wali Green whole Moong Dal, cooked fresh, on low flame for hours, with lot of garlic, ginger, onion, green chilies and tom...