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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

‘I never appeared on TV anna’

Children’s obsession with television is indubitable. No wonder when crews of various television channels trooped in to cover a painting event ‘Balakalaakaar-2008’ held recently for the not-so-privileged children, they were literally mobbed. Enthusiastic to be seen on television, the children, who were reserved till then went ecstatic running towards the camerapersons.

AIESEC volunteers and private security personnel tried all tricks up their sleeves to shoo them away, but to no avail.

“I have never appeared on TV anna. I want to be seen on TV please,” they pleaded employing ‘Gandhigiri’ technique.

Their persistence gave way and soon the children, happiness brimming on their faces, surrounded anchors desperately calling out to camerapersons to capture them. Child power this!

Dharnas and demonstrations by political parties and organisations seeking attention of the powers that be, towards problems faced by people are becoming ideal platforms for political greenhorns to hone their political skills, even master the ‘typical’ political lingo too.

Clad in ‘khadi’ with ‘kanduvas’ draped around their necks, these ‘netas’ from different political parties deliver lengthy speeches, sometimes even inviting the wrath of main speakers, who keep asking the novices to conclude speeches early.

The other day a political leader continued his speech for more than 30 minutes in a meeting at Bagh Lingampally, taking great pains to explain various issues.

He even diverted from the topic, irritating participants and speakers.

Unable to endure his lengthy speech, organisers gave him a note pleading him to cut-short the speech and allow others to speak.

It’s no mean task to achieve this.

At 33-years, when most of the sport persons think of retiring, Mir Mohtesham Ali, known as Hyderabad’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, and father of two daughters, managed to a bag bronze medal in the ‘Muscle mania Mr. World Bodybuilding Championsh ips’ at Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States of America.

Mir Mohtesham Ali had no formal training from experts.

He trained on his own watching Arnold Schwarzenegger’s videos and pouring through Arnold’s books on bodybuilding.

The secret of his rippling muscles is eight hours of pumping iron a day backed by good diet.

A kg chicken, 30 boiled eggs, 12 oranges, a cup of sweet corn, 150 grams of oat meal, 200 grams of green salad and four glasses of sweet lime (Mosambi) juice was his standard diet during preparations.

Keep the tricolour flying high, Hyderabad’s Arnold!

What could be simpler than lighting a small fire beneath the food container to keep it warm? Come to think of it there is much easier way of keeping the food warm through hot water treatment.

One can actually find this at the crockery section at the Chowmahalla palace.

This enclosure has an astonishing range of royal cutlery collected by the 6th Nizam Mir Mahboob Ali Pasha, from Austria, Belgium, Holland, England, France, Japan, German and erstwhile Czechoslovakia. And among the eye catching dinnerware one can find plates with a provision to pour hot water.

This gets collected under the plate’s hollow belly.

And this way the food is kept warm.

A flameless chullah!.

Hyderabadis are a friendly lot and known to be very sociable.

However, their ‘socialising’ went overboard at a recent Jazz concert held in the city. Of the 400 plus people who had gathered, many were heard discussing financial meltdown, upcoming marriages in the families and some were even finalising business deals at the concert!

Well, that’s some nice way to ‘relax and groove’ to some soulful music.

YOGENDRA KALAVALAPALLI, M. SRINIVAS, M. SAI GOPAL, J.S. IFTHEKHAR, D.V.L. PADMA PRIYA

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