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எலுமிச்சை - விஜயகுமாரி பாஸ்கரன்

இந்தியாவின் வெப்ப மண்டலப் பகுதிகளில் வளரும் முட்கள் கொண்ட புதர்ச்செடி அல்லது சிறிய பரந்த மரம். கனிகள் நல்ல மஞ்சள் வண்ணமும், நறுமணமும் கொண்டவை. பூக்களும், கனிகளும் மருத்துவ குணங்கள் நிறைந்தவை. கனிகளில் சிட்ரிக் அமிலம் மிக முக்கியப் பொருளாகக் காணப்படுகிறது. இவை கிருமிகளுக்கு எதிரானவை.

எலுமிச்சம் பழத்தின் தோல், சாறு, விதை எல்லாமே பல வகைகளில் பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது. இதில் வைட்டமின் சி, ஏ, பி, சுண்ணாம்புச் சத்து, உலோகச் சத்து, சர்க்கரை, பாஸ்பரஸ், சிட்ரிக் அமிலம், மாலிக் அமிலம், புரோட்டீன், உப்பு, கொழுப்பு முதலியன அடங்கியுள்ளன.

வைட்டமின் ‘சி’ சத்து அதிகம் இருப்பதால் சருமம் மற்றும் தலை கழுவியாகவும், சிறந்த சரும டானிக்காகவும் பயன்படுகின்றது. சருமத்திலுள்ள கறைகளை அகற்றுகிறது. சிட்ரிக் அமிலம் எடுக்கப்படுகிறது.

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கண்ணாடிகளே சுவராகப் பதிக்கப்பட்டு, பிரமாண்டமாக எழுந்து நின்றது அந்தப் பத்து மாடிக் கட்டடம். முகப்பில் இருந்த ஆங்கிலப் பெயர்ப் பலகை, அது ஒரு மென்பொருள் நிறுவனம் என்பதைக் கூறியது. அதன் இடப்புற வாசலில், இன்னும் கட்டட வேலைகள் நிறைவு பெறாமல் தொடர்ந்து கொண்டு இருந்தன. ஆண்களும் பெண்களுமாக செங்கல் லையும், சிமென்ட்டையும் கட்டடமாக உருமாற்றிக்கொண்டு இருந்தனர். இந்தப் பக்கம் சாஃப்ட்வேர் நிறுவனத்தில் பணி நேரம் துவங்கியிருந்தது. பிரதான வாசலில் கார்களும் பைக்குகளுமாகக் கடந்துகொண்டு இருந்தன. அடையாள அட்டைகள் ஊசலாட, காதுகளில் ஹேண்ட்ஸ் ஃப்ரீ பொருத் திய அழகிய யுவன்களும் யுவதிகளும் பரபரப்பாக நடை பயின்றுகொண்டு இருந்தனர்.ஸ்வப்னா இறுக்கமான ப்ளூ ஜீன்ஸ் அணிந்திருந்தாள். அதைக் காட்டிலும் இறுக்கமான வெள்ளை நிற டாப்ஸ் அவளது அழகை அப்பட்டமாக வெளிப்படுத்தியது. ஜீன்சுக்கும் டாப்சுக்கும் இடையே இரண்டு விரற்கடை அகலத்தில் அழகு ‘இடை’வெளி. காலில் கறுப்பு நிற ஹைஹீல்ஸ். சுருள் தலைமுடியை பாண்ட் செய்திருந்தது அவளுக்குக் கூடுதல் கவர்ச்சியைத் தந்தது. ஸ்லீவ்லெஸ் என்பதால் வழவழப்பான கைகளும், பளபளப்பான முகமும், ‘ஒன்ஸ்மோர் பார்க்கலாமா மச்சான்?’ என்று இளசுகளைச் சுண்டி இழுத்தன. ஸ்வப்னாவுக்கு எந்தக் குறையும் இல்லாத அழகில், அருகில் ஜீன்ஸ் குர்தா வர்ஷா.  “என்ன ஸ்வப்ஸ், இன்னிக்கு ஜொலிக்கிறே… என்ன விசேஷம். டாப்ஸ் புதுசா?” “நத்திங் ஸ்பெஷல். டாப்ஸ் ஓ.கே-வா?” சிரித்தாள். “கிளாஸ்! நெக் ரொம்ப நெருக்கமா இருக்குது. இன்னும் கொஞ்சம் இறக்கமா இருந்தா, சூபர்ப். பசங்க தெறிச்சு ஓடிடுவாங்க!” “அப்படியா சொல்ற… பண்ணிடலாம்!” - கண்ணடித்தாள். இருவரும் பேசிக்கொண்டே அலுவலகத்துக்குள் நுழைந் தனர். அதே நேரம் இடதுபுறம் கட்டட வேலை நடந்துகொண்டு இருந்த தலத்தில்… நைந்து அழுக்கான சேலையில் இருந்தாள் சாந்தி. அவள் தலையில் கிழிந்த சாக்குத் துணி சும்மாடும், கைகளில் செங்கல் சட்டியும், கால்களில் பிய்ந்த ரப்பர் செருப்புகளும்… உடம்பு முழுக்க சிமென்ட்டும், செங்கற்தூளும் அப்பியிருந்தன! “அண்ணே… செங்கல் சட்டியைத் தலைக்கு மேலே வெச்சுக்கிட்டு, ரெண்டு கையாலயும் பிடிச்சுத் தூக்கிட்டுப் போவ ஒரு மாதிரியா இருக்குது. சுத்தியும் ஆம்பளைங்களா இருக்காங்க. நாளைக்கு வீட்லேர்ந்து நானே எடுத்துட்டுவந்தி டுறேன். இன்னிக்கு ஒருநாள் மட்டும் மேல போட்டுக்கிடறதுக்கு ஒங்க பழைய சட்டை எதுனா இருந்தா குடுங்கண்ணே” - மேஸ்திரியிடம் கெஞ்சிக்கொண்டு இருந்தாள் சாந்தி. : Source – Ananda Vikatan   : Category –  Politics, Jannal, Tamizh   | Manakkudiyan.com     Previous entries of Jannal    Previous entries of Tamizh                                                                                                                                                                                                        <<- - -Back to Main Page

As soon as we wake up in the morning, we need newspaper. We go to office; we need our work in the form of paper.  Paper has become an integral part of our professional routine. All the printers at the office are so busy printing; all the dustbins at the workplace are always full. So much of global warming is happening; cutting trees is the major reason. 

Analysis says that it would take an average of 24 trees to produce 1 ton of printing and writing paper and around 12 trees to produce 1 ton of newsprint. Today, every shop has a computer and almost every individual at his profession has a laptop. But still an individual at workplace uses 10,000 sheets per year.  

Currently

Beloved, 

Two incidents from two different straight opposite geographical locations happened last week triggered me something and the same is expressed here.  

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Incident -1: A little Indian girl Triumphs

Commercial Street, Majestic Circle,Kasturba Road, Jayanagar of Bangalore – Panagal Park, Pondy Bazar, Teynampet, Mount Road of Chennai – hoardings in all the cities and towns of India have it.  ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank have changed their default screensaver of ATM machines and Pop-up windows of the site. 

“ Akshaya Tritiya…”    

All the advertisements, hoardings are inviting people to buy their gold in the form of jewels, coins, bars.  There is a continuous projection for last few years saying “ Invest on Gold on this day, Buy gold on this day, it will bring all the good to your home”. People wait in the queues, pay and buy their gold. Traffic has been blocked in Usman Road – Ranganathan street–Panagal Park area of Chennai for the reason, it is Akshaya Tritiya.  Intelligent Gold merchants makes most out of this day with the help of Astrologers.  

Akshaya Tritiya – what is the belief and what is the significance behind this day?  

According to Hindu Mythology there were so many pointers on this day.  Birthday of Parasurama the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Ganges the most holy and sacred river descended to the earth from the heaven, Treta Yuga begun, The Sun and Moon are astrologically believed to be at their most exalted equal brightness on this day, the sacred day of year,….etc. Along with all these, this day has one more pointer. It goes like this “The word, “Akshaya” means one that never diminishes. Hence, starting a anything new, doing something new or investing on anything on this day will get multiplied and grow big “. 

The word Akshaya Tritiya means – Starting point of growth [“Valarchiyin aarambam”].   What we start on this day will get multiplied, grow very big and yield high returns.   It is a day for starting something new… day for starting an investment…. The biggest investment one can do is “INVESTING ON HIMSELF / HERSELF”.  Investing on myself is 1000 times bigger than investing on gold.  

I just went through the sentences of mythology and beliefs. I don’t want to do research on whether Hindu Mythology is true, Akshaya Tritiya is scientifically proven or not.  If you believe in Akshaya Tritiya and if you like to stand in the queue of gold market or click on HDFC online to buy that gold bar, then start on investment on yourself on the same day.  I am not asking you not to buy gold, but make sure you invest on you too. Akshaya Tritiya never means buying gold, It is “ starting point for bigger growth, anything started on this day will get multiplied in bigger level”.  Start something good on this day.   It can be as simple as just picking a new book like “ Eat that frog” and start reading it, it can be just starting a morning walk or learning a new workout or working on your hand writing or starting a new diet from tomorrow or starting to sit on the seat of meditation.

Let it be anything on you, lets start something new, lets grow bigger.  Let’s invest on ourselves, which gives confirmed, guaranteed return and multiple times than anything else on planet earth.  

Akshaya Tritiya – A starting point for growth, not for gold investment. Lets start, lets grow bigger and bigger.   

Love you so much.  : Thoughts unlimited by – Paraman Pachaimuthu   

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“He was okay all these days. All of sudden from nowhere, he got this temperature and cold. He is suffering with this fever.” 

I am hearing this from people here and there for past one week. It is not the case only with school going children; it is the case even with Adults.  All of sudden, how will it come?  

Darlings..  You might have sensed by this time that there is a change in the weather. It becomes hotter and you might have realized that summer is just starting.  Let’s understand an easy science, easy implementation plan and let’s keep the fever away and say YES to HEALTH! 

Weather is getting hotter. Sudden increase of the hot in the weather makes us thirstier and makes our body to sweat more.  The body has certain amount of water and it would be used for various activities and sweating is also included in one of those activities. There is an increased amount in the sweat-out and the in-take of water remains same. Which means – in-take of water remains same and out-going water is more. Body can’t handle this.  Body will become very hot as the first stage. Head-ache, cold and fever are the next level of symptoms and it leads to dehydration.   

If you get sudden head ache in one of those evenings of summer, drink a bottle full of water and see head ache vanishes after some time.  Body needs water for digestion as well as sweat-out. Lack of water leads to head ache, fever, cold and dehydration. Having heavy lunch and taking no water will lead to head ache in the evening. Stuff your stomach with more pizzas and coke and don’t take water, you will get head ache in the evening. Have a bottle full of water, head ache goes away and smile comes back!  

This will happen to children during the annual exam times as the exam preparation creates a huge mental stress in them, creates excessive heat in the body and no one asks them to drink more water than the usual in-take, thus they get cold and fever.  Solution in simple way – Drink more water than the usual in-take. If you are a sweating animal, then decide on the amount of water based on your amount of sweat-out. The measurement is - drink more than what you sweat-out.  

Best and very powerful practice is – drink a liter of water in the empty stomach (no need for ‘bottoms up’, you can keep sipping along with your work out) or drink one or two tender coconuts in the empty stomach.    Drinking water or Tender coconuts during any time of the day and drinking them in the morning with the empty stomach have huge difference. It can remove / stop heat strokes. I have gone for ‘2 nights and 3 days – Rs.12,500/- package’ in Sagar Appollo hospital a couple of years ago and learnt this. I think you should learn from my mistakes and be healthy. 

Let’s welcome summer…. Oh there are yellowish green ‘Amla’ and green ‘Raw mango’ everywhere… bringing water in the mouth.  Whole city is decorated in yellow with ‘gulmohar’ flowers. Summer is beautiful. Let’s welcome Summer. Just we have to drink more water, more tender coconuts, butter milk.    [Just a juice will not help; water is still required for digestion of juice].  

Let’s drink more water… Let’s say no to summer fever and YES to HEALTH…!.  

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Firm on the ground, he was standing there in that seashore for a long while. His eyes were fixed somewhere on the turbulent ocean or just above the water. What was he thinking, what was he going through - no body knows.    One may look at something and may go through something else. No one knows what the other person actually goes through. Nobody can perceive it. Only the person behind the eyeballs knows what he goes through. He was in his own thoughts and own world. 

“Indian epics say that Kubera owned this country once upon a time, such a beautiful country, so much greenery, the best blend of Tea in the world….But why is that it became a permanent war ground?  Isn’t there a way for peace in this land? Their great-great-great grandpa was also born here, left his breath in this same land. Like the other majority of community, the native Tamilians were also born here, brought up here and lived here. Isn’t that their land too? And let them live in their space, it is their country too. They are also son of this soil!  Why can’t these people understand this…” – He might have gone through this, it’s my perception, who knows? He was in his own thoughts and own world. But he came back to the world, when some one said – “Anney… you have got a call from Sachin Tendulkar”!  

Dhamodaran couldn’t believe it initially and ran towards the phone. He had no choice but to believe when he listened to Sachin Tendulkar, the legend of Cricket world and player from the neighbor hood country saying, “I need a personal help from you. You know we are here in your country for the match happening in this period. I want to practice. I know you are great in leg spin. Can you come to the practice ground and help me for my practice please?”  You know what that local player called Dhamodaran would have gone through, when he listened this from somebody called Sachin Tendulkar! And those few days of practice periods were etched in gold in the life of Dhamodaran.

Sachin Tendulkar - A player whom the whole world looks up to, a player whose place cannot be replaced for sometime at least. What might be his PASSION towards HIS cricket?   Standing firm and tall in that position, and still like a student searching for possibility on improving himself and wanting to give his best performance. What would be his homework to find out ‘There exists a local team player called Dhamodaran in Columbu, he is very good in Leg-spin”? What would be his PASSION towards his game?  Oh is this the reason for him to stand on top?!   Hey reader, Are you in line with me,  Are you also thinking.. “ oh … What might be his passion, Is this the REASON FOR him TO STAND ON TOP?” ? 

I just want to say, None of the media were interested to cover this incident and story.. All of them were busy with something else.  It came in a regional weekly magazine in ‘one and half’ line like in the size of ‘ Thirukkural” ( I would have smiled, if it was in the size of “ naaladiyaar”).  

But there was an other news about the same so called Sachin Tendulkar a couple of weeks ago. None of the media missed it. Websites, news magazines, weekly magazines, children magazines, newspapers and everybody covered…“1983 World cup was won by Kapildev and team. That huge celebration attracted the 10 years old boy Sachin Tendulkar, which made him to turn towards cricket. Otherwise, world might of missed a legend.” Everybody focused on “THE REASON FOR THE ENTRY” of Sachin Tendulkar.  

Let’s leave the media. Let’s focus on ourselves.  By focusing of the reason for entry, I will know how he came into that. I would accumulate some information about him, I can share in some forum and show I know more things life. But what would happen to my life? Will it improve anything in my life, except I grow more head weight?  But on the other side, by focusing on the REASON FOR STANDING ON TOP, something about my life may get changed, I may learn something and grow out of it. My life may take a complete turn, who knows? Just seeing the play of Harichandra drama changed everything about a boy and Mahatma was born.  

The question I am asking my self, The question I am asking you to ask yourself is, “ where am I focusing? Am I focusing on the RESON FOR HIS ENTRY or RESON to REMAIN ON TOP?”

By keep on talking or reading… “ He waited in the lobby of  IBM, waited…waited…waited…. No more he could take and resolved….A Bill Gates was born ” – What will happen to us? What is his routine now, how is he able to match the world’s growth, how is that whatever he initiates becomes a trend for the whole world, what is that he has in him that made him to make such deal with FoxPro, Samir Battia and all others things to acquire all those stunning products into Microsoft, and Microsoft remains Microsoft with acquired products?  I think these questions will trigger something in me and put me on the right road.  

Rather saying, “I know that, he started it in a three bed room flat. That’s how he comes”, I think we should focus on ‘how a man called Narayanamurthy made such a honest organization called Infosys?” It will do something in us.  

Keep on saying, “The family was dying for bread and butter. He has to do something for survival and thus he RAN”, will not help me on any aspect of my life. But if I think “What made that athlete called Usain Bolt  to run in such a lighting speed in 100 meter dash of the recent Olympics happened in China ?” , I may grow out of it.  

Let the media do what they want to do.  Let me not focus on “THE RESON FOR THE ENTRY” and Let me focus on “THE RESON FOR BEING ON TOP”…    I will grow out of it. I will be on top.. I would love to say what Zigzigler said… “WANT TO SEE YOU AT THE TOP..”.  I am on my way, are you joining?  

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Still tears flowing down my cheeks.. But mouth murmurs.. “Vidivu varum!”   - Manakkudiyan From : Andan Vikatan :