Vs1 Studio & Purple Turtle are back with UMC(Udaipur Music Carnival) – 2011 : The one and only kind of unique 2 day music carnival in our City of Lakes.
Special Highlights in this Music Carnival will be:
Haryali Amavasya – A perfect green day for recreation and enjoyment in Udaipur. The beautiful festival is round the corner, waiting for a splendid welcome by us on 30th of this very rainy month. As the name suggest, it is celebrated on first amavasya of ‘saawan’ to celebrate the lush greenery of Udaipur. Haryali amavasya is a day of extreme importance for us as it traces its path from the past. The kings of Udaipur considered it as an auspicious day and used to put on a fair for the common people of and around Udaipur. The fair gathers all the people together acting as a means of national integration. Being a traditional fair, the tradition is followed unbroken till date.
There is a huge festive fair that begins from Saheliyon ki Bari and spreads its glories till Fatehsagar. The various places midway are open for the people for free like Moti Magri, Saheliyon ki Bari. The loud noise and screams of the vendors fill this fair with extreme energy.
Guess what adds taste to this vibrating festival?? Yes!! The very famous “Rabri Malpua” 😀 of Udaipur. Adding to the life and color of this festive fair are ‘poopadia’, ‘paani ke gubbare’, colorful caps, chat-pakoda stalls, and various high rides and swings. Traditional songs, dance, food and costume escalate the verve of hariyali amavasya celebrations.
The fair is continued to next day but is restricted only till female folks. The vibrant colors of the costumes and ethnic jewellery catch the attention of all the beautiful ladies. A special care is taken, that the joyous moments of these beauties are not stolen by the men. All the females of the city can walk around, dine with friend and shop for themselves without any obstructions. This day is usually declared as an off for all the government offices and schools by the Collector of Udaipur City. In the plight of this, the various schools celebrate it a day before with colorful and energetic programs. The social clubs running in Udaipur celebrate this amavasya with enthusiasm and excitement through execution of various cultural programs including tree plantation and enjoying the feast together. Many delicious food items are cooked at homes also and families are seen enjoying Garma Garam Pakodas and boiling hot tea with roasted Corn at Fatehsagar.
The festival just adds to the unforgettable memories. The light scatters from the rain drops and spreads the feeling of brotherhood, humanity and love for the tradition. But let’s not forget our duty and love for our very own city. This charming city belongs to us and being fellow citizens it is our responsibility to encourage cleanliness and spread the word of hygiene all over. It is seen very often that a traditional event is well followed by the usual sight of littering roads, thrown wrappers and peels of fruits which leads to various kinds of fatal diseases like malaria and cholera. The beautiful lakeside is seen carrying rubbish on the surface of water which masks its sparkling blue color. It’s a humble request to all the Udaipies to keep the city clean, green and beautiful. Contribute in the best possible way to take care of cleanliness of this heaven on earth. Let’s unite, rejuvenate and enjoy this festive season to the fullest!! 🙂
Article By : Himani Sethiya Contributed by: Chani Soni and Edited By: Palak Jain
:: Here are a Few Pictures of Last Year’s Celebration by Yash Sharma ::
Can’t wait to have a plate of garma-garam pakodas and hot tea sip by the stalls? But stop, make sure that what you are eating is healthy or not.
Monsoon in my own definition is after scorching hot summer, the rainy showers, which are super relieving for us, and are a hello to joy and pleasure. Though monsoon lessens our sweat, but it also brings many problems with it due to sudden fluctuations in temperature and moisture.
So here, UdaipurBlog brings to you some do’s and don’ts, health and fashion tips so that you can gear up for these rains.
Prepare your rain wears, raincoats, caps, umbrellas, waterproof shoes and plastic sheets. Keep plastic bags in your handbags also to prevent your belongings from getting wet in water.
Go for a walk daily in the morning. The fresh monsoon air will refresh you and open your skin pores for happy skin and happy you.
Don’t do heavy exercise. Instead go for yoga or simple aerobics.
Always take a shower when you are rain soaked. Never wear wet clothes without washing and ironing, otherwise they may cause itching.
Our skin becomes more prone to infections these days. So, do take care of your body hygiene. Add dettol or neem leaves to your bucket while taking bath.
Apply anti-fungal talcum powder to the areas which are more prone to infections like armpits, etc.
The moisture and temperature during rains are the favorable conditions for microbial growth. These also results in poor digestion.
Therefore, while cooking, firstly wash all vegetables and fruits well, especially the leafy green as they may have hidden worms.
Add light grilled and tandoori foods cooked in less oil and less salt, loads of seasonal fruits, cereals and vegetables to your meals instead of heavy oily foods.
In breakfast we may add poha, sandwiches, egg, and cornflakes and avoid stuffed parathas.
Load up your kitchen and dining tables with Vitamin-C. It is a good antioxidant which helps in viral cold.
Add ginger to your servings. (Tea and dals).
Avoid packed juices and junk food, of which most of us are used to.
Drink boiled and purified water, homemade juices and soups only.
Prepare your wardrobe to drive everyone crazy with your looks.
Style yourself up with floral prints, pastel shades, sea blue, flora green. They all give you charming fresh look in the monsoons.
Go for cotton fabrics, loose fitting pants or shorts. These are comfortable and casual and also do not cause any kind of skin allergies.
Avoid high heels and slippery foot wears. Instead try wooden sole.
Exclusively for girls:
For glowing skin and healthy hair, apply 1 cup curd plus 1tsp of lime juice to skin and hair and wash off after 15 minutes under rain shower.
If you are suffering from crack heel problems, then soak your feet in warm water with a pinch of salt for 20 minutes, then wash with cold water and dry with towel.
A light body massage with mustard or olive oil is the need of season.
So take care of all the above, to stay healthy and charming and enjoy every treat of this awesome season outside.
Hey friends, every proud Udaipie, all the television watchers, and all the music lovers. There’s a good and exclusive news fom UdaipurBlog for all.
the Deewana Group
In the recent TV Music Reality Show X-Factor, the Deewana group with our own Shahnawaz aka Bunty makes its place in the top 6, and again wins performer of the week trophy. They will be seen singing the title song from Omkara in the “Villian special episode”, where the Bollywood’s Bad Man, Gulshan Grover will be present as the celebrity judge will be seen appreciating them. The Saturday special episode will be “Idol Tribute Episode”, where the group will be seen singing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Qawwali “Roshan hai Sama”, for which all the three judges Sonu, Shreya and Sanjay Leela Bhansali will be seen giving them a standing ovation.
We have previously also informed before hand about one more such victory of the group (Link). Stay tuned for more such Updates. Shahnawaz appeals again to Udaipur to please vote for Deewana group by Typing XF 01 and Send to 5252525, else the pride of Udaipur will have to be in bottom 2 for the next week.
“Shaheed ki chitao par lagege har baras mele…. Watan par mitne walo ka baki yahi nishan hoga…..!!!!”
Eyes filled with tears, pain of loss easily visible on each face, air filled with patriotic songs. No one could stop their tears from rolling down when candles were lightened in the memory young and brave Lt. Archit Verdia. A huge crowd gathered at the ‘Shaheed Smarak’ of Town Hall yesterday, the 26thof July, co-incidentally, which was also the Kargil day, to pray for his departed soul.
Lt. Archit Verdia
His mother, Mrs. Beena Verdia, and sister, Devyani Verdia, were also present there. Though their hearts were deeply engrossed in the grief of losing their 23 yrs old young son, but their heads were held high as they knew that Archit has not died, but has become immortal in the heart of every Indian. His late father will be brightly shining as a star seeing the bravery of son who has fulfilled his dreams of seeing his son as a soldier. We salute to this family for giving a great soldier to this country.
It has been known that Lt. Archit Verdia left this world on 20th of this month while trying to save his colleagues who were caught in fire at an army camp of Siachen Glacier. Born on January 20, 1988, Archit completed his +2 from The Study School, Udaipur. He got his training from Officer’s Training Academy, Chennai and was posted in the Indian Army about one and half years back.
Udaipur has never witnessed the pain of losing a soldier at the border. But today when we look at Archit, every hand comes up in reflex to give a salute to him. His funeral will be held today at Rani Road at 9 a.m. after his body will be brought to his hometown with due respect.
We all have been through a great loss. Udaipur has lost a brave child. We all pray for the peace of the departed soul, and also salute the spirit of the soldier.
The elections for board of Udaipur Urban Co-operative Bank were held yesterday in the Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat. Immense interest of people could be seen to access their voting rights. One could see the crowd of the election in the streets. The polling finished smoothly. There were 9 candidates to be elected out of a total of 11. The result was announced till 8 and the list of candidates who were elected is as under
Akhtar Hussain
Ashiq Ali
Arvind Shah
Fatima Liyaquat
Mansoor ali R.V.
Mushtaq Hussain
Shbbir Hussain R.V.
Lft. Col. (Rdt.) Sirrajduddin
R.L. Nagar
In the elections, Mr. Akhtar Hussain bagged the highest position. One could see the winning spirit and the happiness of the elected members after the results were declared.
The Computer Society of India (CSI) organised a young talent search competition for the school students as the talent search for programming and coding. Udaipur was also a centre amongst about 20 centres in India. As many as 7 schools, namely Central Academy Ambamata, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Maharana Mewar Public School, Alok School, St. Anthony’s, St. Gregorious, Delhi Public School participated in the competition held on yesterday on 24 July,2011 at the city centre of Techno India NJR Institute of Technology located at Madhuban. Mr. Piyush Javeria informed that the competition was of 2 hours duration in which a team of 3 students had to solve 4 problems of programming and logic in any programming language out of C, C++ or JAVA. The winner is judged based on the timing and accuracy.
The national level round will take place on 28th August at Chennai. The winner gets a prize of Rs. 15,000. The two winner teams will then be participating in the SEARCC international competition which will be held at Chennai.
Dr. Dharm Singh, secretary, CSI Udaipur Chapter explained that this competition is organised by CSI every year, though less entries/participations have been a bit disappointing, yet a higher number of participation is expected in the upcoming years.
The competition was guided by the CSI members’ team from Techno India NJR, comprising of CSI student chapter members, and headed by Mr. Piyush Javeria and Ms. Shilpa Pandey. The Senior CSI members, Mr. M L. Talesra, Mr. Mazhar Hussain, Dr. Anand Swarup expressed their thoughts to increase awareness about CSI and its different chapters, for better educational and research outcomes. Few students were seen curious for the CSI student chapter membership, which is now open for school students also.
APJ Abdul Kalam is a man of great vision, an eminent scientist and engineer who served as the 11th President of India from the period 2002 to 2007. A person with the pure and down to earth personality was in the city of lakes yesterday. He arrived at the Maharana Pratap international airport at 3:30 P.M., and went straight to the circuit house for rest, where he enjoyed the pleasing and every refreshing view of our own Fatehsagar. After resting for about an hour Kalam sir took the the class of the Lakecity students in Delhi Public School at Chitrakoot Nagar. One could also see the crowd waiting outside for Dr. Kalam to have a view of our very own people’s president. In his half an hour class in DPS, the ironic missile man of India firstly asked the students about what they wanted to become in their future life. In this process he found that there were majority of the students who wanted to become engineers and lesser wanted to become a teacher.
Talking about building a personality, he added that one should have the knowledge as well as the purity of the heart. In this process he gave the students the knowledge equation i.e.
Knowledge = Creativity + Purity in heart + Courage
In his speech he did not forget to mention the role of mother in the prosperity of the nation. In the series of questions and confusion many students raised their points to the iconic man. In this chain he told the students about how he enjoys his role of a teacher. On the question about India’s possibility to become the superpower by 2020, Dr. Kalam again reminds the role of a mother in nation building and explains “If a child keeps his mother happy, he will sure keep the family happy, if he makes the family happy he will surely make the Udaipur happy, and if he makes the Udaipur happy he makes Rajasthan happy, if he keeps the Rajasthan happy he indeed keeps the India happy and if country is happy then what more do you need to make the country a super power.”
On being asked about his source of inspiration, Dr. Kalam did not forget to mention his teacher V. Subrramanium Iyyer. On a question about why India is always giving a handful of friendship to Pakistan and is not using this hand to slap him for the activities, Kalam quoted “strength respects strength” and explained that being a democratic country we are not supposed to risk the lives of 112 billion people who rely on us.
Dr. Kalam, the teacher of ideas and an environment ambassador inaugurated the Eco Club of the School by watering a plant. In the end with a conversation with the principal of Delhi Public School, she shared her experience about the program and also felt honored as the great personality was between them in their very own campus. The facility provided by the school and the arrangements for the program was excellent. And they wish to have many more interactions of the eminent personalities with the ordinary students of Udaipur in the coming times.
A glimpse of the event can be seen below via the following photographs:
To reduce the unemployment rates, and for the upliftment of the BPL (below poverty line) population, an NGO, Vishvas, today finished off with a training as well as certification programme “Skill Training & Placement of Rural Youth Leading to Gainful Employment” for the BPL people from the rural areas of Udaipur, Rajsamand and Bundi, under Special SGSY (Swaranjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana)
100 candidates meeting the minimum requirements for the eligibility criteria were selected from these rural areas by Viashvas, and they were provided with the security guard training of one month duration, a course and certification by IGNOU. The programme was held in association with the Securities and Intelligence Services (India) ltd (SIS).
The candidates had one month of residential training at SIS Regional centre located at Debari. They were provided free lodging and food for the entire duration. All the candidates have been placed with a minimum salary of 4-6 thousand per month.
The certification programme was carried out yesterday at 9:30 a.m. for the persons who qualified both the written and the physical examinations. Mrs. Teena Kumar, Zila Parishad Udaipur, Mr. Pritam B. Yashwant, District Collector Rajsamand, Mr. Ram pal Sharma, Chief Executive officer, Rajsamand were present at the ceremony.
Vishvas is a Non Governmental Organisation which carries out such type of training programmes for people below poverty line for their proper employment and upliftment. This programme was funded by the Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna, a poverty eradication plan by the Government of India.
Udaipur once again feels honored to host the most renowned saints of Jain religion- Muni Lalit Prabh Ji and Muni Chandra Prabh Ji.These Jain saints are here for about one and a half month and will bless us with their spiritual and devotional words throughout their stay in Udaipur during this chaturmas.People from all over India are coming here for their pravachans and to get their blessings. There is so much enthusiasm and excitation among the people here that more than one lakh invites have been done in Udaipur alone.
The followers of Jainism as well as other religions have an ultimate faith in them. This could be well figured out in the grand welcoming of Lalit Prabh Ji and Chandra Prabh ji at Bapu Bazar on 10th July 2011.
Many of the followers were present there just to have a glimpse of them. They moved to Jain Dharamshala , Hatipole in a huge rally with a great pomp and show. In his rally, there were 5 elephants, 11 horses, 11 chariots, 5 bands and many women carrying 1008 ‘kalasha’ on their heads. People showered petals on him all over the way and some of them even washed their feet.
The Main Organizers of the whole event were Mr.Kalu Lal Jain and Arihant Property Dealer along with the Sakal Jain Samaj. Mrs.Rajni Daangi, the chairman of Nagar Parishad, Udaipur lighted the lamp.They will be staying in Udaipur till Diwali and their Pravachan starts sharply at 8.45 am at Town Hall, Udaipur and everyone is welcomed there.
Hope their pravachans will inspire all the Udaipurites deeply and their preachings will help you to attain inner peace and will give a break to your jet paced life and will make it meaningful n worth living.
