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Brigade Gardenia Community Newsletter

Volume 1 / Sep 08

Introducing Spandan In this Issue

"Spandan", meaning resonance, vibration is our first in-house newsletter

to reflect the vibrations & resonance of this thriving community of Brigade

Gardenia. The concept of the newsletter has been on our mind for

sometime now, and with a thriving community like ours, with number of

families staying here from different culture, different state, and with

different knowledge and experience; what better could bring about the

best from all of us; is a Newsletter "Spandan".

Know Your Campus

Get Noticed

Campus Kichdi

Community Kitchen

Page 3

FunXone

Kids Corner

Join the Team

Featured Article – Get Noticed!!

Festival Windup!!

Straight from the Handi!!

Campus Kichidi

Know Your Campus

Page 3

Independence Day &

Annual Day Celebrations at Gardenia

Know about your campus from Arun

Bagchi. This issue we feature Sewage

Treatment Plant’s (STP) of Gardenia

Sunil Upadhaya, our Honorable secretary of

Gardenia, shares his experiences, of life and his

stay at Gardenia. We may have seen him always

smiling and participating at every Gardenia event,

and spending time at the association to make our

stay at Gardenia a pleasant one. Let us take this

opportunity to know him personally.

Our resident Arghaya Palit, take you through the land of Biriyani and provides

us with his submission on two “Rasoi’s” of biriyani cooking, the Mughlai & the

Hyderabadi. Read On

The months of festivals are here and, we make an attempt to capture the

festivals over two issues of Spandan, and provide the relevance of these in

our lives …

Kids Corner

Know about “How Bright is a Stars?”

Make your own Fun tumbling Toy!!



Introducing "Spandan"

"Spandan", meaning resonance or vibration; is our

first in-house quarterly newsletter to reflect the

vibrations & resonance of this thriving community of

Brigade Gardenia. The concept of the newsletter has

been on our mind for sometime now, and with a

thriving community like ours, with number of families

staying here from different culture, state, and with

different knowledge and experience; what better

could bring about the best from all of us; is a

Newsletter "Spandan".

We aim to use this newsletter a medium of

communication, knowledge sharing, in turn enabling

a community knowledge management initiative

which in turn helps us to build a society, empowered

together to make Gardenia a better place to live in.

With our first edition, we have categorized our

sections we feel relevant to this news letter and

Spandan in whole. Through this newsletter we need

to know the campus well, only knowing about what it

has to offer is not enough, we also need to know and

sensitize the machine and people dependency we

have to run the campus, "Know your Campus", will

take you through a journey of our Machines,

dependencies, do's and dont's and create an

opportunity to know how we run and encourage

suggestions to run better.

India, the land of varied cultures and traditions is a

land of festivals and fairs. It is a land of festivity -

religious as well as folkloristic. Whether we go to the

East or the West, North or the South we would be

able to enjoy every month a festival or a fair. We have

a campus, representing all parts of the country, what

best but a "Campus Kichdi" to capture those

moments.

As we have different culture and community within

Gardenia, we have people, with varied knowledge

and experience. We would like to know them, and

thus we have"Page3" to capture them!! When Page3

is for adults, we cannot miss the children and we have

"Kids Corner" dedicated to them. We promote the

creative juices to flow, and encourage children’s to

manage this section and get noticed.

Make us laugh with your jokes, riddles and puzzles at

the "FunXone". Let the Foodies and Chefs @

Gardenia unearth the secret recipes and post them

on our "Community Kitchen".

We encourage Reviews on movies, music and books,

to be posted for the community to make a choice at

the "A Closer Look" section. We also invite featured

articles of general interest, and experiences on

our "Get Noticed" section.

Finally, this may be a brainchild of few good men, but

is not possible to be a huge success without

you "Joining us". We invite sub editors, volunteers,

articles and support to make this a huge success.

Please participate and make this a success.



Know your Campus

Sewage Treatment Plant

B y A r u n B a g c h i A - 1 4 1 0

Liquid wastes coming out of any industry or

community are to be treated before discharging into

the environment. The nature and extent of pollution

varies widely from one industry to another. Water

pollution control methods are designed essentially to

maintain the quality of the receiving bodies of water

and to enable reuse of treated effluents for specific

purposes. To this end, statutory laws have been

enacted and control boards set up to monitor and

compel the polluting industries and organizations to

treat their liquid wastes to acceptable standards.

Methodology of waste water treatment varies with

the extent of pollution and the objectives. In general,

the removal of contaminants is brought about by

chemical and / or biological reactions, to provide

what is known as primary, secondary and tertiary

treatment. In primary treatment, physical operations

such as screening and sedimentation are used to

remove the floating and settle able solids. In

secondary treatment, biological and chemical

processes are used to remove most of the organic

matter. In tertiary treatment, additional processes

are used to remove other constituents such as

phosphorous and nitrogen for reuse.

Brigade Gardenia is a zero discharge campus, which

implies that no effluents other than run off rainwater

are discharged beyond our boundary walls. Two nos.

Sewage Treatment Plants, each of 225KLD have been

provided to treat the sewage and other effluents. The

treated water is fed into the open well inside the

campus and is reused for our landscaping purposes.

The STPs in Brigade Gardenia are designed to achieve

the following parameters, in an Extended Aeration

Activated Sludge System followed by tertiary

treatment to render the treated wastewater fit for

landscaping

BOD (Biochemical / Biological Oxygen Demand): Less

than 20 mg/litre.

TSS (Suspended Solids): Less than 30 mg/litre.

COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand): 100 mg/litre.

pH: 6.5 to 7.5

Raw effluent can be pumped from STP-1 to STP-2 for

treatment thereby enabling operation of both the

STPs intermittently. Clearance for Operation (CFO) is

obtained from Karnataka State Pollution Control

Board annually.

To know more on STP, download the technical

document from the file section of our website.



Get Noticed!!

Straight from the Handi!!

B y A r g h a y a P a l i t A - 1 2 0 9

I was born and brought up in Kolkata but my roots lies

in Lucknow & having spent a greater part of my

childhood in this city of minnarets, azans, tehzeeb –

and more important of mughlai cuisine & the

dumpukht, I have naturally become snobbishly

contemptuous to what other Indian cities had to offer

in terms of ambiance & culinary delicacies. Trips to

various region in the country had further reinforced

what I had known all along – namely, that the all

round flavor of Lucknow was par excellence. But all

that was before I came to Hyderabad. Once I was

here I realized that finally I was in a city which could

give my ol' home town a run for its money.

At a first glance, Lucknow & Hyderabad have many

things in common. The respective muslim ruler of

both the cities have left their marks indelibly on the

skyline, and though students of ancient architecture

would shudder if I compare the Imambara & Baradari

of Wajid Ali Shah to the Charminar & Falaknama

palace of the Nizams, they both evoke a nostalgia of a

glory past that India may never experience again. The

mosques, minnarets, narrow bylanes, the sonoric call

to the evening namaz , with the sun setting behind

the gumbaj's wouldn't know whether you are in

Hyderabad or Lucknow.

But I am rambling. History & architecture are not my

fortes – good food is. And here, too, the similarities

are striking. The roadside eating joints look quite

similar in both the cities – the large blackend metal

pots of biriyani, the skewered chickens the sheek

kebabs – all look the same. But mughlai & nizami food

tastes poles apart. You need to taste both to realize

this – and since I am exquisitely qualified in that

respect, I will henceforth give you my free & frank

appraisal of the comparative merits of the two type

of cuisine. I must point out however that views

expressed below are those of my taste-buds alone.

Firstly, no self respecting Lucknowite would ever

invite you to dinner & serve chicken – mughlai dishes

are ideally prepared of mutton. Hyderabad on the

other hand sits of the richest hatchery belt of the

country, and nearly all ceremonial dishes have

chicken as their base. Infact, the Hyderabadi fashion

statement of the topping a plate of biriyani with

boiled eggs will not find many takers in Lucknow –

chicken biriyani is considered second-grade fare

there!!

The taste of the two schools of biriyani are also poles

apart. Bay leaves are an important ingredient of the

biriyani in this city – I was thrilled to learn that the

leaves are actually called “biriyani patti”here but not

in Lucknow. The Lucknavi biriyani is spicy, oily and

resplendent with keora water & food colors. It is a

meal in itself, and has no accompaniments other than

the sour “raita”. The Hyderabadi biriyani, on the

other hand, is less oily, gentler on your taste buds,



and unlike a Lucknow meal, does not necessitate

anta-acids after dinner. There are more options

regarding accompaniments, too, one of them being

the “salan”- prepared of brinjal & chillies – thats is

served along with the biriyani. The meat

accompanying the biriyani is bland, thus not

interfering with the flavour of the biriyani per se.

Personally speaking, Hyderabad gets my enthusiastic

vote in the biriyani category.

Kebabs, however , are a different ball game. Even the

best selling joints in Hyderabad do not offer you

much variety in kebabs. Lucknow on the other hand

has an awesome 64 possible types of kebabs, and I

have not yet tasted shaami kebab here like they used

to make back home. Probably the predilection to

mutton explains this superiority – you just cannot

have good kebabs without good mutton. At the polls

Lucknow defiantly gets my Kebab vote.

Regarding breads, the honor are even. Lucknavi

rumali roti's are better, while Hyderabad scores on

the tandoori roti segment. Naan's are comparable,

and the multi layered paratha is prepared the exactly

the same way and tastes the samein both cities.

As far as various chicken preparations, the scores are

again probably tied. Personal opinions would play a

much greater role here, though Lucknow's kali mirch

chicken & dumpukht, and Hyderabad's Nahari &

chicken 65 probably have no counterparts in the rival

camp.

Finally, the dessert. The much talked about Lucknavi

“Zarda Pulav” is actually quite bland, not that you

really need do develop a taste for it to enjoy it. The

“khubani ka meetha” here on the other hand, is

absolutely divine, and the guy who had first thought

of adding a dash of vanilla ice cream to it should

receive some kind of civilian honor.

A last word of advice to all ye who have recently

landed in this city – the Hyderabadi penchant for

green chilies is worth watching out for. Go easy on

the gravies till you are used to fire within. And till that

time it may be prudent to condition your tounge over

“Mirchi-Bhajjies” & order chilli-less food even though

that is hardly suited for weak stomachs



Festival Wind up!!

Janmashtami

Janmashtami or Gokulashtami as it is popularly

known in North India, is a festival full of joy and

gaiety. It celebrates with great pomp and show, the

birth of Lord Krishna who was born more than 5000

years ago in the 28th year of Dwapur Yug. It is one of

the most celebrated festivals for Hindus not only in

India but also, all over the world. Janmashtami is

about the joy, people all over the world feel for their

beloved Lord Krishna.

The Janmashtami of Mathura and Vrindavan, the

places where Lord Krishna had spent his childhood,

are famous all over the world. Devotees from across

the world come to these pious places to celebrate

Janmasthami. On this auspicious occasion, temples

and homes are beautifully decorated and illuminated.

Night long prayers are offered and religious hymns

are sung in temples. The priests chant holy mantras

and bath the idol with Panchamrit which comprises of

Gangajal (water from the holy Ganges River), milk,

ghee (clarified butter), curd, and honey pouring all

these from a conch shell. After this bath the idol of

the infant Krishna (also known as Balmukund) is

placed in a cradle. Devotional songs and dances mark

the celebration of this festive occasion all over

Northern India.

Janmaashtami, popularly known in Mumbai and

Pune as Dahi Handi is celebrated with enormous zeal

and enthusiasm. Various Handis are set up locally in

several parts of the city, and groups of youngsters,

called Govinda, travel around in trucks trying to break

as many handis as possible during the day.

Many such Govinda Pathaks compete with each

other, especially for the handis that dole out hefty

rewards. The event, in recent times, has gathered a

political flavor, and it is not uncommon for political

parties, and rich community groups to offer prizes

amounting to lakhs of rupees.



Ganesh Chaturthi

Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated on the 4th day of the

bright half of Bhadrapad. This festival marks the

birthday of Lord Ganesh. Lord Ganesha or Ganpati is

one of the most popular deities in the Hindu religion.

It is worshipped by both Shaivites and Vaishnavites.

Even Buddhists and Jains have faith for Ganpati. He is

considered to be an avatar of both Shiva and Vishnu.

On the occasion of the Ganapati festival, a large

number of idols are made of clay or metal in all

possible sizes; sometimes even up to twenty feet.

People buy idols of Lord Ganesha and install them in

their houses and worship the idol for one to ten days,

after which the idols are taken out ceremoniously,

through the streets of the town (especially in

Maharashtra) and immersed into the river, sea or

well.

According to the legend, Lord Shiva, the Hindu God of

resolution, was away meditating on Mount Kailash.

His wife Parvati, wanted to bathe and having no-one

to guard the door to her house, conceived of the idea

of creating a son who could guard her. Parvati

created Ganesha out of the sandalwood paste that

she used for her bath and breathed life into the

figure. She then set him to stand guard at her door

and instructed him not to let anyone enter. Parvati

had the power to guard herself but she wanted to

take a long relaxing bath and knowing that someone

would come to bother her she would create a power

that could handle the most impatient (Ganesha).

Gardenia residents took initiative in celebrating

Ganesh Chaturthi at the BMS Hall of Golden Magic.

The celebrations were marked with Sthapna of Lord

Ganesh on 3rd

Sept, and every morning & evening,

residents offered their prayers and aarti. The ladies at

Gardenia, took the initiatives of preparing Ganeshji’s

favourite “Modhaks”, and delicious prasadam. Every

evening we had Bhajans and it was a great to see

residents actively participating in the celebrations.

We had the visarjan on 6th

and it was marked with

some cultural programs in the afternoon and visarjan

in the evening. Lord Ganesh, departed to the uproar

of “Ganapathi Bappa Mouruya” with a promise to be

back next year.

Photographs courtesy Ashok Krishnarao B912



Onam

Onam is the biggest festival in the Indian state of

Kerala. Onam Festival falls during the Malayali month

of Chingam (Aug - Sep) and marks the homecoming of

legendary King Mahabali. Carnival of Onam lasts for

ten days and brings out the best of Kerala culture and

tradition. Intricately decorated Pookalam, ambrosial

Onasadya, breathtaking Snake Boat Race and exotic

Kaikottikali dance are some of the most remarkable

features of Onam - the harvest festival in Kerala.

Story goes that during the reign of mighty asura

(demon) king, Mahabali, Kerala witnessed its golden

era. Every body in the state was happy and

prosperous and king was highly regarded by his

subjects. Apart from all his virtues, Mahabali had one

shortcoming. He was egoistic. This weakness in

Mahabali's character was utilized by Gods to bring an

end to his reign as they felt challenged by Mahabali's

growing popularity. However, for all the good deed

done by Mahabali, God granted him a boon that he

could annually visit his people with whom he was so

attached.

It is this visit of Mahabali that is celebrated as Onam

every year. People make all efforts to celebrate the

festival in a grand way and impress upon their dear

King that they are happy and wish him well.

Pookalam is an intricate and colourful arrangement of

flowers laid on the floor. Tradition of decorating

Pookalam is extremely popular in Kerala and is

followed as a ritual in every household during ten-

day-long Onam celebrations.

'Pookhalam' consists of two words, 'poov' meaning

flower and 'kalam' means colour sketches on the

ground. It is considered auspicious to prepare

Pookalam, also known as 'Aththa-Poo' during the

festival of Onam.

People believe the spirit of their dear King Mahabali

visits Kerala at the time of Onam. Besides making

several other arrangements, people, especially

adolescent girls prepare elaborate Pookalams to

welcome their most loved King.

Our Club “Augusta” had organized Poolakam, flower

decoration competition on 10th

Sep. It was

encouraging to see the community ladies participate

in the competition, and gave us a treat for our eyes to

see some impressive flower decoration. A glimpse of

the same is provided.




Campus Kichdi!!

Independence Day & Annual Day Celebrations @ Gardenia

Independence day this year, was celebrated with lot

of enthusiasm at Gardenia, with the flag hosting

ceremony in the morning, Our residents took active

participation in hosting the national flag followed

with the national anthem, so show our solidarity

towards this beautiful country.

The kids at Gardenia were a delight to watch. The

younger ones came out with their parents and grand

parents to see probably one of their first flag hosting

ceremony, while the older ones, sang some patriotic

songs, and reminded us of all the martyrs who gave

their lives to lay the foundation to our Independence

Indian Independence Day has a special relevance to

Brigade Gardenia. It also marks the foundation day of

BGAOA, a year back, and thus has a special

celebration for the residents of this community. This

year, the Independence Day being on a Friday, gave

us an opportunity to have a long weekend, and thus

we postponed our annual day celebration to the

following weekend in interest of the community at

large.

Our C&S (Culture & Sports) committee and the

volunteers put in their hard work to come out with a

grand celebration and variety of cultural program to

entertain the residents. The residents responded to

this celebration with lot of enthusiasm and came out

in full strength to be an audience to this Cultural

Celebrations. If you have been there, the people

climbed the trees to have a gallery view of this

Magnum Opus.

The unity and vibrations of this campus was

showcased in a 3 hour program schedule with

participation from the tiny tots of gardenia, to the

professional performers of this community. Be it

poetry, folk dance to regional songs, enactment of

Panchatantra stories, rock band of gardenia, kids

dancing to the spirit of the nation, individual & group

performance by the residents, all were welcomed and

applauded by the audience to boost their enthusiasm

and appreciate their creative best.

The extravaganza continued till noon, which

concluded with the community lunch which was

organized by the C&S Committee. We ended the

Annual Day celebration with the promise to come

back next year, with more fun and more

performances to celebrate the spirit of Brigade

Gardenia.




Kid’s Corner

How "Bright" is a Star? Contributed by S. Parthasarathy E – 501

There are two ways to answer the question of how

bright a star is quantitatively:

Intrinsic Luminosity:

Measures the Total Energy Output by the star in

Watts

Distance Independent (it is a physical property of the

star itself)

Apparent Brightness: Measures how bright the star appears to be as seen

from a distance.

Depends on the distance to the star

Inverse Square Law of Brightness

The Apparent Brightness of a source is a consequence

of geometry. As light rays emerge from a source, they

spread out in area:

Expressed mathematically:

In words:

The Apparent Brightness (B) of a source is inversely

proportional to the square of its distance (d):

Implications:

For a light source of a given Luminosity.

Closer = Brighter

Move 2x closer to a light source

It will appear 22=4 times brighter.

Farther = Fainter

Move 2x further away from a light source

It will appear 22=4 times fainter

Apparent Brightness of Stars

How bright a star appears to be will depend upon:

• How bright it is physically (Luminosity)

• How far away it is (Distance).

These are related through the inverse square law of

brightness described above.

Brightness-Luminosity Relationship:

This relates the Apparent Brightness of a star (or

other light source) to its Luminosity (Intrinsic

Brightness) through the Inverse Square Law of

Brightness:



At a particular Luminosity, the more distant an object

is, the fainter its apparent brightness becomes as the

square of the distance.

Appearances can be deceiving...

Does a star look "bright" because

• it is intrinsically very luminous?

• it is intrinsically faint but located nearby?

To know for sure, you must know either

• the distance to the star, or

• some other, distance-independent property

of the star that clues you in.

Measuring Apparent Brightness

The process of measuring the apparent brightnesses

of objects is called Photometry.

Two ways to express apparent brightness:

1. Stellar Magnitudes

2. Absolute Fluxes (energy per second per

area)

Both are used interchangeably by astronomers.

Magnitude System

Traditional system dating from classical times,

invented by Hipparchus of Nicaea, c. 300BC.

Rank stars into "magitudes": 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., as

follows:

• 1st magnitude stars are brightest stars,

• 2nd magnitude stars are the second

brightest,

• and so forth...

• The faintest stars visible to the naked eye

are 6th magnitude.

As originally applied by Hipparcus and others, this

was a qualitative ranking, as they had no reasonable

means of independently measuring bright nesses

other than comparing them by-eye to other stars in

the sky.

Magnitudes defined this way are measures of the

relative bright nesses of stars.

Modern Magnitude System

The modern system of magnitudes defines them as

follows:

• 5 steps of magnitude = factor of 100 in

brightness

• Bigger magnitude = fainter star.

• The standard of brightness is the star Vega

(0th magnitude)

Examples:

• 10th mag star is 100x fainter than a 5th mag star.

• 20th mag star is 10,000x fainter than a 10th mag

star.

• Faintest stars measured this far are ~30th

magnitude.

Magnitudes are computationally very convenient to

use, but the are somewhat obtusely defined (it is

backwards: larger magnitudes = fainter stars).

Unlike the qualitative system of Hipparchus, the

modern magnitude system defines the standard of

brightness as the bright star Vega (brightest star in

the summer constellation of Lyra), and precisely

defines the interval of magnitude. This quantification

was done in the 19th century and refined throughout

the 20th century.



Flux Photometry

Count the photons received from a star using a light-

sensitive detector:

• Photographic Plates (old-school: 1880s to

1960s)

• Photoelectric Photometer (photomultiplier

tube: 1930s to 1990s)

• Solid State Detector (e.g., photodiodes or

CCDs)

We now use solid-state detectors like CCDs and

similar technologies (with very rare exceptions), as

these detectors are far more sensitive and stable than

any previous technology.

Calibrate the detector by observing a set of "Standard

Stars" of known brightness.

Measuring Luminosity

To measure the Luminosity of a star you need 2

measurements:

the Apparent Brightness (flux) measured via

photometry, and the Distance to the star measured in

some way

Together with the inverse square law of brightness,

you can compute the Luminosity as

The biggest source of difficulty, as usual in

Astronomy, is measuring the distance accurately...

Practical Issues

In practice, we can use sensitive electronic

instruments and photometry to measure the

apparent bright nesses of many hundreds of millions

of stars.

But, we have good distances (parallaxes) for only

about 100,000 stars.

• Only that number of stars have direct estimates

of their Luminosities.

• Since Luminosity depends on distance squared,

small errors in distance are effectively doubled

(a 10% distance gives a 20% luminosity).

Luminosity is an important quantity for

understanding how stars work, and measuring it with

accuracy is still a practical issue even in 21st-century

astronomy.



How to make a Fun Tumbling Toy!!



Page 3!!

Sunil Upadhaya

Spandan team invited Mr. Sunil Upadhaya, our

honorable secretary and his family to feature on our

1st

edition of Spandan. It was a pleasure having him

and we thanked him for time for us to interview him,

and his selfless contribution to the upkeep of

Gardenia.

Sunil hails from Dakshin Karnataka popularly known

as Mangalore; he said that his roots are all over, as he

was born in Mysore, education in Mumbai &

Dharwad, started his career in Mumbai and now in

settled in Bangalore since 2002. After completing his

BSc in Physics, and a degree in Electronics &

Communication, he joined Hindustan Brown Boveri,

now known as ABB Ltd. I have had the opportunity to

work in various functions in the organization and now

I am the Asst. Vice President and Regional Head -Sales

and Marketing for Automation Products, covering

Region South.

We asked Sunil about his family, and Sunil claims that

his and his family’s source of strength is his better

half Surekha, who is a home maker and a mother of 2

beautiful daughters Sunayana and Sukshma. Surekha

conducts painting classes in Gardenia for kids and is

an active member of the C&S and Landscaping

Committee.

Sunayana and Sukshma go to Carmel Convent and

both are good artist just like their mother. Infact

Sunanya has won lot of awards and appreciation in

drawing competition.

Taking Sunil back to his school & college days,

brought up a twinkling smile on him. He said, he

spent his childhood in the suburb of Mumbai, at

Ghatkopar. At school he was amongst the good

students and he started developing his leadership

qualities, being a cabinet leader at school.

Four years of Engineering at Dharwad was very

memorable, for Sunil as he was exposed to a different

kind of lifestyle, after facing the hustle bustle life in

Mumbai. Also life at Hostel brought in more maturity

and gave hi the strength to face life without

depending on anyone.

Sunil’s source of inspiration in taking the lead in social

and cultural activity was his parents. He has grown up

seeing them doing and thus he claims is to “Run in

the Family” He says “It was nice to be a part of the

organizing team for cultural activity and take

responsibility for organizing study tours. This probably

has helped me too in later part of my career, as I still

enjoy doing it at BG and my Office”.

Sunil has a passion for Comics. They are his favourite

pastime. He ensures that he has reading material,

with him when ever he is travelling. Stamps and

collecting them has been another hobby which he

cherishes even today. He has a good collection of

stamps of Independent India and hereafter. Old Hindi

music has been his passion, and he ensures he keeps

up to it. Sunil nostalgically says “During Childhood we

have time but no money to chase our hobbies and as

we grow we have no time to pursue them.” I guess

that the irony of Life!!



Sunil cherishes south Indian dishes, and claims

himself to me a pucca south india, He loves and has a

taste bud for Gujarati cuisine, and looks forward to

his Gujarati friends to invite him for a sumptuous

meal.

Sunil & Surekha take their social life seriously and

they love and enjoy their social commitments. Sunil

goes on to explain, like work, in social and cultural

activity, he does not believe in “chalta hai attitude”,

they both like to take their roles seriously, plan and

execute well.

Sunil remembers, for the time they entered Gardenia

to live here, they started their cultural journey. They

participated at the Dandia Raas. He also remembers

that when he use to follow up on the construction

progress, he use to feel “how it would be to lead this

big complex “. Today he thanks all the residents and

managing committee for electing him as the

Secretary of the complex. He goes on to say, that he

is fortunate to have such excellent team, with the

right mix of experience and youth. Sunil, we are

fortunate as well to have you as our Secretary!!

Sunil, when asked to point about 3 things of the

campus, he picked up the campus, the beauty of It.,

the residents, their warmth, and the greenery, the

highlight of our campus.

On his thought of improvement, he said “A Lot, the

list is too long”. He came with some top priorities on

his agenda. Year one was “Rules & Regulations” he

said, the managing committee, laid the foundation to

policies, guidelines and regulation around security,

and housekeeping and other important issues.

Going forward the second year shall be for “Systems

& Procedures”, he said, the association would like to

strengthen the office with experienced hiring,

computerizations, and laying the systems and

processes for day to day operations.

As a key message to his fellow residents Sunil lists the

following:

• To co-operate with BGAOA.

• Follow all Rules and Regulations laid down by the

BGAOA, especially with respect to Security, to

make this place a safe and secure place to live.

• Try to positively contribute to the welfare of the

Campus. Criticism if any needs to be followed by

Suggestions/ Solutions.

• Share their similar past experience by being a

part of the various sub committees.

• To optimally use Water and Power. This will not

only benefit us but also benefit the State and

Nation.

• To take care of the Gardens and Plants by not

destroying the Plants, or plucking flowers.

• Volunteer to be a part of the Managing

committee in future

From the Spandan Team, we thank Sunil Upadhaya

for his time and dedication to our society. More over,

we like to thank his family Surekha, Sunayana and

Sukshma for being so supportive and being the

strength behind Sunil, in his professional and social

life.



Community Kitchen

Aloo Makhani

Smita Palit A-1209

I n g r e d i e n t s :

Small Potatoes

Panner 100gms [Finely Grated]

Tomato 1 big size & grated to puree

Green chilly 2 nos

Green cardamoms 4 nos

Jeera 1 tea spoon

Dry Kasturi methi 1 tea spoon

Methi seed ¼ tea spoon

Kaju finely chopped 10 in number

Vegetable Oil

Salt to Taste

P r e p a r a t i o n M e t h o d

Boil & peel the potatoes.

Make a paste with Jeera Green Chilies & cardamoms

Heat one table spoon oil fry potatoes and take out.

Add some more oil and heat it. Put methi seeds and

tomato puree stir. Add paneer & chopped kaju and

salt to taste. Add 1 tea spoon sugar and stir well. Mix

the paste & kasturi methi. Add potatoes little water,

cover it and keep in low flame. Cook till done well.

Garnish with Coriander Serve hot with parathas

Modak

I n g r e d i e n t s :

For the Cover :

1 cup rice flour

1 tsp. ghee

1 cup water

1/2 tsp oil

a pinch of salt

For the Filling :

2 cups shredded fresh coconut

1/2 tsp. cardamom powder

1 tsp. roasted poppy seeds

1 tsp. rice flour

1 cup jaggery (Gur) or Sugar

P r e p a r a t i o n :

F o r t h e F i l l i n g :

To make the filling, combine and cook coconut

and jaggery together on medium heat. Stir

continuously until they are mixed properly. Do

not overcook.

Add cardamom powder, roasted poppy seeds

and 1 teaspoon rice flour to it. and cook for

some time. The filling is ready now. Remove

from the heat and allow it to cool.

F o r t h e C o v e r :

Boil 1 cup of water. When it has reached a

steady boil, add ghee, salt and oil.

Now immediately add the rice flour and stir

quickly so as to remove all lumps. Cover with a

lid for some time. Remove the lid & stir again &

again, cover again.

Now remove pan from the heat. Take off all the

mixture on a flat plate. Knead it thoroughly

while hot. Make soft dough.

Divide this dough into small balls



T o m a k e t h e m o d a k s

Note :It is best to make the modaks when the

dough is slightly warm. Grease the palms of your

hands well. Take a ball of dough. Flatten the

dough to form a cup shape. Place about 3/4th

teaspoon coconut filling into this cup. Dip

thumb & index finger in the oil & make 5-6 small

pinches side by side on the outside edges of the

cup. Bring them together on top and join to

form a peak. Your modak is complete. This

should look like a whole garlic pod.

Like this, prepare all modaks. Spread a damp

cloth onto a flat round sifter and arrange all the

modaks onto it. Place the sifter in a steamer and

cover. Steam for about 15 minutes. Use a big

size saucepan or pressure cooker if you don't

have a steamer. Do not put the whistle if you

use the pressure cooker.

Serve with ghee.

Cook's Tip:

Prepare the filling first.

The proportion of water and rice flour for the

cover should be accurate as written above. It is

advisable to sieve the flour once.



FunXone

Riddles & Jokes

A. Divide 110 into two parts so that one will be 150

percent of the other. What are the 2 numbers?

B. At a sports banquet there are one hundred

athletes. Each one is either a football or

basketball player. At least one is a football

player. Given any two of the athletes, at least

one is a basketball player. How many of the

athletes are football players?

C. Why do windows squeak when you open them?

D. Why does a lion kneel before it springs?

E. A carpenter was in a terrible hurry. He had to

work as quickly as possible to cut a very heavy

10 foot plank into 10 equal sections. If it takes 1

minute per cut, how long will it take him to get

the 10 equal pieces?

F. What is the difference between a fisherman and

a lazy student?

G. Why are 1898 silver dollars worth more than

1897 silver dollars?

Answers A) 44 and 66

B) Only one of the athletes is a football player. The

other ninety-nine are basketball players.

C) Because they have panes (pains).

D) Because it is preying (praying).

E) 9 minutes. It only takes 9 cuts to get 10 equal

sections

F) One baits his hook, the other hates his book

G) $1,898.00 is one more silver dollar than $1,897.00

Laugh with Munna & Circuit

MUNNA BHAI: Mamu, tu kitna pada hai?

MAMU: B.A.

MUNNA BHAI: Sala, two akshar pada aur woh bhi ulta?

CIRCUIT: Bhai, Bapu ne bola tha ke kabhi jhoot nehin

bolna mangta hai. Apun aaj se kabhi jhoot nehin bolega

Bhai.

MUNNA BHAI: Aye Circuit, woh Sabrina ka baap aya hai

tere ko dund rehla hai.

CIRCUIT : Bhai usko bolo apun gaoon gayea hai, kheti

karne ko.

MUNNA BHAI: Par Circuit, abhi to tu bola kabhi jhoot

nehin bolega.

CIRCUIT: Bhai, apun jhoot nehin bolega, par tum to bol

sakta hai na

MUNNA BHAI : Circuit, bole toh yeh Ford kya hai?

CIRCUIT : Bhai, gaadi hai.

MUNNA BHAI : Toh phir, yeh Oxford kya hai?

CIRCUIT : Bole toh, simple hai bhai, Ox mane Bael, Ford

mane gaadi. Oxford bole toh Baelgaadi.

Munna: Abay Circuit! Jaa baajo walay ghar say Doctor ko

bula k laa, meri tabiat kharab ho reli hai.

Circuit: Aey Bhai ! aap to khud doctor ho.

Munna: Bolay to meri fees buhat zyada hai.



Join the Team

An initiative has been started, but to take this to the

next level, it requires support and enthusiasm from

all quarters. We like to invite for Volunteers from the

campus for the following roles:

E d i t o r Editor is responsible for all the deliverable against the

quarterly newsletter. Contribution & write an

editorial page for each newsletter coming out. Select

and finalize content after receiving the same from

the team of sub editors.

S u b E d i t o r s Sub Editors shall be responsible for few sections of

the newsletter. Role require collecting contribution of

articles, proof reading and approving the content for

editors review.

C h i l d r e n V o l u n t e e r s

We invite kids responsible for the Kids Corner of the

newsletter. Role require collecting contribution of

articles, proof reading and sending the content for

editors review

V o l u n t e e r s We need people assisting editorial team to run the

show, with collection of articles, identification of

people for contribution, collection of photographs.

T e c h n i c a l / D e s i g n e r We need volunteer with designing capabilities, using

tools like Macromedia Tools, Photoshop, PageMaker

etc, and knowledge of HTML to create web pages and

make this newsletter more attractive & interactive.

C o n t a c t s

If you are interested in volunteering and writing /

contributing articles; please feel free to contact us:

Email: [email protected]

For suggestion & Feedback, please write to us a

Email: [email protected]

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