#spice shop in nagpur | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

wasilly1 · 5 years

Text

My Trip To Doha

“Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring We left for India on the 8th of June. It was a very exciting journey overall. Through a few connecting flights and a 24-hour layover in Doha, we reached Nagpur. A small city in India. Our flight was from Boston to Doha to Nagpur. On our way to India, we stopped in Doha for a day. We landed in Doha around 5 pm Doha time. It took approximately an hour or so to get our bags. The first thing you realize when you step out of the airport is the heat and the dry climate. The heat is overwhelming, given that you are in a desert. Be prepared for the hot and dry weather of Doha if you are traveling through that part of the world. We had 24 hours in Doha so we made the most of it. To start off, the Hamad International Airport is an engineering marvel. It is truly one of the most beautiful airports you will ever see. It has many restaurants, shops, lounges, and many other activities which can you can do at the airport. I didn't have a chance to enjoy much of the airport's amenities because we were heading out into the city.

Hamad International Airport

The ride from the airport to the city was my first glimpse of the rich architecture that Doha had in store. On the way, I could see numerous posters for the upcoming FIFA world cup which will be held in Doha in 2022. In Doha, we stayed in a Hilton DoubleTree hotel. Our hotel was not too far from the airport, approximately a 15-minute drive, and it was a beautiful hotel. After we freshened up, we decided to explore the city. We visited the Museum of Islamic Arts, which was closed at the time. Just next to the entrance, there were golf carts taking people around the museum. We got into one of them and we were dropped right next to the beach where we could the iconic Doha skyline. It was amazing. We sat there gazing at the skyline for almost half an hour. Here are a few night photography tips I wish I knew before going to Doha Use a tripodUse a manual mode on your cameraTry to use low ISO (1600)Take a bunch of shots with different settings (Exposure)Shoot raw so you can edit later

The Iconic Skyline

Museum of Islamic Arts

Good Ol' inspiration After seeing the skyline we went to have dinner at a famous Indian restaurant. I had some papadi chaat which is a classic Indian dish which I recommend you taste. Even at night, Doha was very hot. We came back to the hotel after dinner to get some rest so we are ready for the next day. We would be getting up early the next morning to explore Doha some more. The next day we headed out to do some shopping. The first thing we did was get our currency exchanged from Dollar to Qatari Rial. It is always advisable to shop in local currency instead of using foreign currency. One of the best things to do, when in a new place, is to ask advice from hotel staff because they usually have a good understanding of local shops and the best places to visit. One of the things which Doha is best known for is their gold. They have a lot of it. It's in their airports, food, museums, streets, shops, basically everywhere.

Shopping is a must if you ever go to Doha. Be sure to bargain for the best price because some street vendors may have unreasonable prices. We saw a lot of gold shops, locally handcrafted souvenirs, and a lot of spice and sweet shops. One of the coolest things that I did in Doha was to visit the local market. Souq Waqif is one of the biggest local markets in Doha. It looks like something right out of a movie. It dates back at least a hundred years and it is enormous. You can buy anything, from spices to expensive garments. It is the number 1 place to go if you visit Doha. We brought a few souvenirs to take along with us.

They even had parrots...

Additionally, even throughout the market, you could see merchandise advertising the upcoming FIFA world cup in 2022. After Souq Waqif, we explored more of Doha. The heat was a little overwhelming but we got to experience stunning architecture. It is a must to wear a hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, and drink plenty of water when roaming around.

Islamic Center

Towards the end of the day, we visited the Museum of Islamic Arts. It is such an extraordinary museum. It is absolutely jaw-dropping. The entrance to the Museum of Islamic Arts.

Photo by Shahin Olakara The Museum of Islamic Arts is located on an artificial peninsula where you get a clear view of the Doha skyline. The Museum of Islamic Art represents Islamic art from three continents dating back to 1,400 years. It contains jewelry, literature, textiles, and ceramics. The interior of the museum has an elaborate design. The museum was designed by IM Pei, the architect of the Louvre pyramid in Paris. The entrance is grand and exotic, lined with palm trees and a fountain. The museum consists of 3 floors of varying artifacts. If you are visiting Doha, make sure you take time to visit the Museum of Islamic Arts. It is definitely an experience not worth missing out on.

After the Museum of Islamic Arts, we had to go to the airport to board our next flight to Nagpur. In the next post, I will tell you about how amazing an Indian wedding is.

A picture taken before leaving Doha. Read the full article

0 notes

saveplus · 5 years

Text

Exciting Offers Every Day

Online shopping is becoming a real threat to traditional retail stores. Online shopping is a form of electronic e-commerce. It allows the customers to buy goods and services through the internet. Everywhere people are looking for offers in order to save their money on shopping. Saveplus is a site which is related to offers and discounts in the form of coupons and deals. Sign up today for your savings.

Are you looking for domains, then Bigrock is the best site for domain hosting. Bigrock provides a wide range of domains and premium domains for your desired website names. They offer you services like VPS hosting, Email hosting, Domain name registration and Web hosting at affordable prices. The prices are different for .com, .net, .in and more. The services provided by them are real-time which are live across the web. In the web hosting category then categories like Linux hosting, Windows hosting, WordPress hosting, Reseller hosting and more. They also endorsed many popular brands for domain hosting and other hostings. You can get offers and discounts by using the Bigrock coupons and Bigrock deals present the websites like Saveplus.

Gofynd is the largest fashion destination for everyone. They provide clothing for men, women and kids and also accessories like wallets, handbags, sunglasses, frames, hair accessories, caps and hats, Cosmetics and other beauty products.

Here you can find a satisfactory collection for both men and women like Sarees, Lehenga Sarees, Kurtas, Jeggings, Gowns, Ethnic wear, Anarkali lehengas, Suits, Blazers, Trousers, Jeans, Shirts, Winter wear, Baby clothing, Girls clothing, Boys clothing and lot more collection with a variety of brands at a reasonable price. Their collections ensure quality from different brands. Use Gofynd coupons to get the best discounts on your every purchase.

Welcome to an easy way of browsing and shopping for groceries. Bigbasket is India’s largest leading website for food and groceries With over 18,000 products and over 1000 brands.

Here you can find for everything fresh Fruits and Vegetables, Rice and Dals, Spices and Seasonings to Packaged products, Beverages, Beauty and Personal care products, Meats, Bakery items and baby care items. They guarantee for the best Quality and on-time delivery. The ordered products will reach at your desired place anywhere in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Delhi, Noida, Mysore, Coimbatore, Vijayawada-Guntur, Kolkata, Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar, Lucknow-Kanpur, Gurgaon, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam, Surat, Nagpur, Patna. Make use of Bigbasket coupons and promo codes for amazing discounts.

AllianzRoad Assist offers you very good road assistance which helps the customers in need of repair occurred for vehicles on the road. They are presently offering services in 50 different countries. There are more than 400000 service providers working for the company. They assist very good service to the customers in very minimum time. The service was very worthy and it is available 24/7. The service plans are in the form of Standard and Elite, where you have to pay per annum. The services are available for both 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers.

There are special offers and discounts regarding these annual plans. We can use AllianzRoad Assist deals for the discounted prices.

#Bigrock coupons Bigbasket coupons AllianzRoad Assist deals

0 notes

beenheresinceforever · 7 years

Text

First they went after slaughterhouses. Then they turned to meat shops. Next they will invade our kitchens. That is not all. Yesterday beef was taboo. Today it is mutton. Tomorrow it will be fish and fowl, and eggs too. Let us be warned. The vigilantes are on the rampage and Uttar Pradesh is only their latest stomping ground.

Within 24 hours of being sworn in as chief minister of India's most populous state, Yogi Adityanath ordered a state-wide crackdown on slaughterhouses. Officially, the drive is targeting "illegal" abattoirs and meat shops, but hundreds of legal slaughterhouses too have been sealed by the administration for violativegetarianng some rule or other. Since slaughterhouses have to comply with a complex maze of over two dozen rules, it is easy to find some minor infraction to justify a shut down.

As for the plethora of unlicensed operations, ground reports from UP indicate that one key reason for these is that no new licences were issued for the last 15 years, thanks largely to the aggressive movement launched by Adityanath and his Hindu Yuva Vahini musclemen. Afraid to frontally take on the Hindutva brigades, and yet mindful that a significant section of the state's Muslim populace was directly dependent on the meat trade, the previous state governments allowed the businesses to continue without any official licence.

In any case, abattoirs and meat shops are certainly not the only businesses that operate without a licence. Thousands of small and micro enterprises in India's teeming informal sector - from vegetable vendors to pan sellers, barber shops to roadside dhabas - thrive in a grey zone that is not strictly legal but far from being criminal.

But then the Adityanath government's drive has little to do with what is legal or illegal. It stems, on the surface, from a deep-seated hatred towards the Muslim minority and is aimed at crippling them both economically and culturally. In this, Adityanath is not alone. In state after Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state, the drive against meat shops and abattoirs is gaining ground: authorities in Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh have also been instructed to 'lay down the law' and shut down enterprises that have been quietly doing business for years.

And where the law is not on their side, 'persuasion' in the name of 'sentiment' is the new tactic. Last week, for instance, a vigilante outfit by the name of Shiv Sena (which Uddhav Thackeray has since disowned) went around shutting hundreds of meat and chicken shops in Gurgaon on the outskirts of the national capital since "Navratri" was on. The group issued notices warning the owners not to open their shops on Tuesdays and during the nine-day festival. A spokesman of the outfit told reporters, "A number of Hindus keep fast during Navratri and every Tuesday. It does not feel good to see meat being sold and served on this day..." Most of the shopkeepers - belonging largely to the minority community - complied with the 'request', he added.

Hindu Yuva Vahini, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Bharatiya Gau Raksha Dal - these groups go by many names, their activities seemingly uncoordinated, their organizations apparently autonomous. That is just a façade. In truth, they have all been spawned and nurtured by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's ideology that its practitioners proudly label "cultural nationalism".

The goal of "cultural nationalism" is the creation of a Hindu rashtra whose primary enemies, on the face of it, are the beef-eating Muslims and Christians. But the real intent of cultural nationalism goes much deeper: it aims at creating a monolithic "Hindu" identity and abhors the bewildering diversity of cultural practices that make up the tapestry of Hinduism.

Food is central to culture, to identity, to community and is not just something we put into our mouths for bodily sustenance. Whether consciously or subliminally, the Hindu Right is deeply aware of this subversive power of taste and tradition and that explains its obsession with the eating habits of people, its aggressive efforts to impose a 'Hindu' diet that goes well beyond the taboo against cow meat - which itself is far from universal even among practising Hindus in India.

Although individuals in the BJP or even the RSS may be non-vegetarian, the dominant impulse of the sangh parivar is a virulent vegetarianism - signs of which have become much more evident in recent years. BJP-ruled states such as Madhya Pradesh have doggedly refused to supply eggs under the school mid-day meal scheme in spite of its proven nutritional value for growing children; vegetarian fare - particularly Gujarati snacks - has become de rigueur at official functions in Delhi; and bans on the selling of mutton, chicken, eggs and fish on Hindu festival days is becoming more frequent.

While vegetarianism is a growing fad in the West too, in India it has a much longer and complex history - deeply entwined with the notions of 'purity' and 'pollution' that underlie the caste system. Ages before the famous French anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, produced his path-breaking work, The Raw and the Cooked, to explore culture in culinary terms and offered the raw-cooked-rotten food triad, ayurveda divided foods as tamasic (stale or rotten), rajasic (stimulating) and sattvic (pure and calming). Tamasic foods that include all meats were regarded the most inferior and fostered tamas (darkness, sloth, lethargy) while rajasic evoked excitement and passion. A sattvic diet - strictly vegetarian that eschews garlic, onion and spices too - was considered the best, and said to promote calmness and equanimity, the prescribed diet of sages and priests.

Over the centuries, the subtler essence of this classification got vulgarized and food rigidities came to mirror social inequities. The upper castes, in particular the Brahmins, used their vegetarian diet to buttress claims of sattvic superiority over flesh-eating lower castes. Movements like the Arya Samaj also added to the cult of vegetarianism. With Nagpur Brahmins dominating the RSS leadership, the orthodox upper caste Hindu's visceral revulsion to meat - coupled with fear and loathing for the meat-eating Muslim - became embedded in the sangh's psyche; as did the myth of the spiritually elevated vegetarian Hindu. Never mind that serenity and equanimity are the last qualities that come to mind when we witness the vitriolic outpourings of the saffron-robed political " yogis" and "sadhvis" in our midst.

What the RSS-inspired vigilantes deliberately overlook is that a vast majority of Hindus are non-vegetarian. According to the Baseline Survey of 2014 by the Census of India, 71.6 per cent of Indian males and 70.6 per cent of Indian females are non-vegetarian. In Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Bengal, the figure crosses 98 per cent. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Odisha closely follow, with over 97 per cent non-vegetarians, while the figure is 93 per cent in Bihar. And, as is well known, Brahmins, too, are traditionally and determinedly non-vegetarian in states such as Kashmir, Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Odisha and along the western coast.

Yet, there is a concerted effort to push vegetarianism as quintessentially Hindu - and imposing this stealthily through a combination of coercion and persuasion, fear and shaming. Non-vegetarians, rarely, if ever, force anyone to eat meat - respecting the tenets of dietary freedom that militant vegetarians increasingly refuse to reciprocate. Sadly, meat-eating Hindus have not come out in protest against "Navratri" fiats that are slowly becoming the norm. Nor have they shown any solidarity so far with the hapless butchers and cooks who dish out delicious kababs and biryanis that millions of Hindus consume with gusto. The saffron mobs, backed by State power, may be targeting the visible "Other" today. Tomorrow it will be the rest of us, our choice of cuisine, our way of life...

ne��,

#vegetarianism #mob

0 notes