Delhi again

I haven't been to a Shopping Mall since Jan this year, the last one was Shoppers Stop in Chennai. In delhi I have never been to any shopping mall, m really surprised with myself but all my jarurat ka saman is either from old markets like Kamla Nagar, Sarojini Nagar, South Ex, CP, GK and Lajpat. Shopping Malls are there in delhi but I never felt the need to visit any of those new shopping malls which have come up in the recent past. This time since I was in Delhi for abt a week and had absouletly no time to visit any of the markets I went to one of the biggest Mall in Gurgaon "Ambience Mall", I was told its one km in length. It had all the brands and my all time fav. Westside, I spent my whole day there and shopped alot, Indian retail sector has changed so much, from small shops to huge Malls.

Talking abt Delhi, the airport looks like some foreign location, less then a month old the new terminal is wonderfully done, I thought Bangalore airport was wow but Delhi airport is even better. The services and way its been done I was impressed and the best part the coffee and snacks is very much affordable not like Bangalore airport where even a dosa cost 150 bucks. Frying out and in Delhi will sure change with the new terminal and more terminal coming up in the Delhi Airport.

Beautiful things in summer

Khagel-leihao

Gulmohor Tree

April and May is no doubt one of the hottest month and temp. soared to 39 degree with humidity level as high as 85% but then on my various trips to all the clusters our project is promoting I get to see some lovely sites like these pics. above I don't know the names of most of the flower trees but the site is worth capturing in my camera, the first pic. is of "Khagel-leihao" as its called in Meitei lon, 2nd is Gulmohor and 3rd m not too sure of the name. The way to katlamara was full of these lovely flower tree's and I stopped for few moments to enjoy the beauty, their were alot of other flower trees in the many tea garden's but sadly I didn't had the time for photography..... but I hope the tree's are still in full bloom when I come back from Delhi.

Travelling to Delhi again...

Delhi seems to be the only destination in my life I get to travel when others are getting to travel the world....I travel to delhi once every 3/4 months, its not that I don't want to go to delhi lekin summer mei Delhi unbearable ho jata hai and this year its very very hot. Anyways lets hope dilli mei bhi barish ho jayeh jaise yahan Agartala mei suru ho gaya kal se...its super pleasent and m enjoying after the dreaded 39 degree and 85% humidity level the previous two weeks.

Parantha oh yeah I can make Parantha

Despite all my love for cooking, experimenting for new dishes in my modest kitchen, I never tried making parantha first of all coz m not a very roti person, I prefer having rice then roti so it never occured to me that I shd attempt making parantha or plain roti. On my last monthly grocery shopping, I bought a packet of Aashirwad Atta aise he, maine socha thoda rice kaam khati hun and roti banana sikhti hun so finally last weekend I attempted making puri, roti and yeah Parantha that too my fav. aloo ka parantha and my heaven....it turned out quite good, the puri's were super soft and roti's yummy, I was so damn impressed with myself that last weekend I had puri, parantha & roti. I used to get bored thinking of kneeling the dough but now I've become very good, abhi muli and gobi parantha banane ka plan hai....m super excited thinking abt it.

I still prefer rice over roti but plan chapatti is a better option compared to rice, I realized its less messy in terms of making the subzi coz with rice I tend to make abt 3 dishes and with roti I can have just dal, roti and some achar. Y'day I had those parantha with ooti and trust me the combination is lethal.

Nagamapal Keithal Revisited

I love to cook and equally love to shop for veggies so this time when I was home last week I went to the Nagamapal vegetable keithal (Market) with mom one morning. We bought fresh local veggies for to take it back to Agartala, veggies like maroi nakuppi, thambou, maroi napakpi, yendem and alot of other veggies. I took this opportunity to capture some good pics. for my blog and in general. The best part about this market is, its operated only by women both from valley and the hill, the infrastructure is not good but at 7 in the morning its lively and full of people. I wish I could contribute in development of the market, development in terms of making the shed's better and providing basic facilities to the women, if not now then maybe latter for sure I wish to contribute at the level best.

The week that was in Tripura

After my series on the week that was in Delhi I thought why not start a series on "The Week that was in Tripura" to upload all my travel pics and thoughts during and after the travel, so here's the first one updates on past two weeks. Thanks to the MTR team from Hyd I travelled across the state like crazy, the entire project team went a lil nuts with too much travelling and working all holidays and sundays esp. me, first it was the team from Chennai and then the MTR team from Hyd, it was too hectic and diffcult to handle lekin kya karen paapi pet ka sawl hai kaam toh karna padega jo bhi ho. Anyways coming back to my travel updates the most exciting was my trip to Damcherra again...my third visits in 2 yrs and I absouletly love that place, the bamboo raft and the bridge connecting Tripura & Mizoram. The river divides all and its so different in terms of culture, religion, food and everything....Tripura side is still very traditional....once we cross the bridge Mizoram is hap and happening...people listening to western music and not bangladesh but Moreh acchapot and other goods from Myanmar available in all shops. Damcherra is a melting pot of three different states and cultures the Reangs, Bengali, Tripura and the Mizo's, its one of my fav. place in Tripura and despite the distance I love going there, the Bamboo transported through the river is an amazing site.

Thanks to my sony digicam I captured some really good pictures this time, I will soon graduate to a Digital SLR till then I'll have to manage with my sleek and trendy Sony T70.