15- year old MP girl secures top rank in class 10 board exam, who cycled 24 km daily to go the school

Roshni Bhadouriya, who belongs from a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district, has scored 98.5 per cent in the State Board Class 10 exams. Standing eighth on the merit list, Roshni cycled to school in Mehgaon town (12 km away from her home) and back, every day.
Her father, Purushottam Bhadoria, a farmer felt very proud to have a girl child like her and let her continue studying. What he said “All my children are good students, but this girl m her to continue studying. I want to see her get big degrees and work in big firms in big cities”.

India’s participation in sports

India is no longer just a cricket nation and the sports business is starting to expand along with several dimensions totaling to over a billion US dollars growing at 35% to 40% years over organizations taking some definite interest in the sports industry programs, there has been definite upheaval in the industry as a whole. In recent news, India saw its Olympians bringing glory to the country in wrestling (Shakthi Mallik) and badminton(PV. Sindhu) not only is this a huge leap from the predominantly patriarchal nature of sports in India but an inspiration to women all around the world. It was high time for India to start talking sports seriously and not just as fun and games.

The Ministry of sports and youth affairs is focusing on the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and the MP area development Fund. Specifically, MPs in India will be able to allocate more funds towards the erection of multipurpose halls, hockey turfs, soccer fields, and athletic tracks, under the urban sports Infrastructure scheme or USIS, a whopping windfall of roughly six crore rupees will be allotted towards the same. Indeed, people may have a different sporting preference, but the bottom line is that there is no doubt that sports, any sports, can enthuse so many. Its time to showcase India’s prowess to grow as a superpower in sports.

You,me & water.

One of the major threat to our mankind is that of water scarcity. Though we are surrounded with the 70% of water of which only 2.5% is fresh, rest other is saline and ocean water. Water demad is expected to drastically increase by 2050, people would be running out of fresh water. Agricultural sector would be using 70% that of fresh water as the population is increase rapidly and is expected to overtake China in the near future. Water is one of the essentials for the survival of life which we are taking for granted until we really face the crisis in the coming decade or two. Mega cities, and metropolitan cities may surely be developing in the IT sectors, but the slum areas are facing the water crisis.

Water scarcity has always been the one of the underrated problem as no genuine steps are taken from the government to over come this situation which may turn hazardous in the future. Its reported that almost by 2025, 2/3rd of the population here in India will be facing the immense water shortage. Even in this fast growing era of technologies, innovation, infrastructure facilities.., we are lacking in reservations of water, we are lacking in restoring water. People are misleading and wasting water as they have water facilities available in their area. It doesn’t affect them in the first place as soon as they are having their part of share. People living nearby to the river bank find it difficult as the water are contaminated with the industrial wastes, drainages, water pollution, and those practicing spiritual prayers to the dieties by offering flowers and what not.(No personal hate over religion or anything. But people should understand that that will be taking years in filtering). Those living in the cities with the good water supply will never understand the value of drops others are craving for. Some part of India is facing shortages, on the other hand some places are having good fortunate monsoon weather and relatively no shortages are faced. While the part of the country may suffer under drought on the other hand part gets flooded.

Speaking globally, back then the war would be declared over the resources available in countries looting them to their respective countries by winning over them and seemingly in the future that might turn up for the shortages of water. The countries may run into the wars over the water resources and it might turn into a huge disaster. Globally, around 850 million people are short falling for the clean drinking water, and millions are from India. Because of it women’s and children are suffering in the first place. Women’s has to travel miles to meet the water needs which results in affecting their health. And due to the unavailability of clean and fresh water.., kids are suffering from the diseases such as diarrhoea and dying out of it.

Whatever comes for free are taken for granted. And whatever is taken for granted will eventually be taken away- Tiny buddha.

All the workers of local police station are under our scope of investigation, Kanpur IG on Vikas Dubey case

Gangster Vikas Dubey

One of the abettors of Vikas Dubey revealed that the gangster had the information about the raid and the suspect was possibly from the police station. Kanpur IG said on Monday that the Chaubepur police station is under the scope of the investigation.

“All the workers of the local police station are under our scope of investigation on how Vikas Dubey got information about police movement,” Kanpur IG Mohit Agarwal said on Sunday.

“Services of cops in league with him will be terminated and they will face a criminal trial,” he added. Another official said that the staff of the entire Chaubeypur police station was suspect.

“Several examples are available now that show the not only the mid level officer, constabulary and senior police officers remained soft due to the caste factor. He survived all these years because of his activities on the caste-lines. It involved not only the cops but politicians, businessmen and so on,” said an official who did not want to be named.

3o policemen are under investigation after UP Special Task Force (STF) and investigators found that the policemen were in contact with the gangster.

Despite he was involved in 60 known criminal cases, Dubey did not figure in the top 10 criminals of the city because he used to get the information from the policeman.

What has startled the investigators is the enormity of support the gangster had on caste-lines from the police. Two senior police officers of Deputy SP rank, several sub-inspectors and constables have been questioned.

One of the deputy SPs was asked why he did not follow the routine procedure of invoking gangster act, registering his gang at district level after the 2019 shootout, which Dubey’s men carried out in Kalyanpur and a case of attempt to murder was registered.

The questioning was in context of murderous assault mounted on the gangster’s brother Anurag Dubey in Kalyanpur. Anurag’s wife Rita had lodged an FIR naming Vikas, his closest aides Pawan Tiwari, Aman Tiwari and two others on April 18, 2018.

“The officer kept mum; he chose not to answer to the question on why did he go soft on him. The reaction of other was no different,” said an official involved with the investigation. The sub-inspectors and constables were bit more forthcoming on this issue and said Dubey used to take good care of men from a particular caste.

“Otherwise he was abusive to all the policemen he used to speak to over the phone or in person. Wo seedhe gaali dekar baat karta tha (he used to abuse cops right from the start),” the cops told, adding that they were afraid of him and preferred not to be at odds with him.

 IG Kanpur range Mohit Agarwal said, “The suspended station officer (SO) of the Chaubepur police station, Vinay Tiwari was manhandled by Vikas Dubey, a day before the cops conducted a raid at his residence in which eight cops were killed.”

“However, the SO didn’t inform the senior officials about the incident otherwise, our team would have prepared accordingly before the raid. He has been suspended and a probe has been ordered,” he said, adding that Vikas Dubey knew about the raid at his residence.

IG Mohit Agarwal said, “It is very clear Vikas Dubey knew about our movement. He was fully armed along with other criminals at his residence and opened fire on the police team. All the cops of Chaubepur police station are under the scope of the investigation.”

“If any policeman is found guilty of helping Vikas Dubey and other criminals, he will be booked under charges of murder and sent to jail. We will also terminate him from service,” he said.

Missing old data makes online tax payment tough

Citizen groups, residents welfare associations and experts have raised questions about the old property tax data, which was gathered over the last 12 years, not being utilised in the new portal made by National Informatics Centre. The taxpayers, meanwhile, have to feed all the data again while filing their taxes.

United Residents Joint Action (URJA) says that the new portal is more inconvenient and defeats the purpose of the entire revamp exercise. A letter in this regard has also been written to LG Anil Baijal highlighting the problems being faced by taxpayers.

“They are asking for more information regarding the properties. Mutation, registration, e-mail address and what not. Many senior citizens do not have an e-mail address. There is a large section of population in Delhi which cannot furnish these details,” said Atul Goel, who heads URJA.

He added that integrating new features in the previous website would have been a better option. “Everyone is being asked to file a fresh form. If the target is to increase the collection, why are the taxpayers being inconvenienced?” he asked.

The letter to the LG states: “The portal asks you to register yourself as a user first before moving forward…This feature is making it difficult for the consumer to pay fast. Even if you try registering afresh, it shows an error.”

Sudha Sinha who heads the Dwarka CGHS federation said that they have received numerous complaints about the new portal, especially from senior citizens. “The corporation has UPIC numbers of properties. If we file UPIC number, all the details should be shown,” she added.

A family is a little world created with love.

Family is the people in one’s life who accept you as you are.The one’s who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.Family plays an integral part in one’s life.Family is build on meaningful connection, it is an unbreakable and incredible bond created by mothers,fathers,sisters,brothers etc.A family acts as a first school to a child where one learns about various things.The basic knowledge about one’s culture and identity comes from the family only.In other word one is identified with the family only.All the good habits and manners one has Incorporated are from their only.Families are essential as they help in our growth they develop as becoming a complete person with an individual identity.Family are the one who believes in you when the whole World doubt you.family acts a pillar in one’s life they are always there in ups and down.Family are source of inspiration, love and support.Its that warm and fuzzy feeling.

UNLOCK 2.0 , state the key holder.

Rules have been passed , guidelines have been put up but where does the skepticism lie ? Apparently the movement of the public has been put under control but the state is the ultimate key holder to the indecisiveness and functions.

(1) THE PERMITTED & BARRED : – The motion of international air travel passengers have been held onto the barred and the exception of permitted by MHA lies in disguise. – Metro rail , cinema halls which counts all sorts of entertainment and travel entitlements into the barred zones. – All categorization of social / political / sports / academic / press conference/ gatherings are not be entertained.

SUBJECTION TO CURFEW – Motion of public will be strictly remained prohibited between 10:00 PM to 5:00. Acknowledging the fact of Government having to post night curfew which stands as a question to most of the factors effecting night shifts and resulting in the employment crisis. Is it really worth the prerogative? Listing to all the factors night curfew and the unlock 2.0 are two perceptions in the eyes of Government. Both the perceptions are been held up close to the scrutinization. Attention to all the synthesizing with the strands of the curfew. Henceforth , key is in the hands of the state. Geared up for the big reveal , theories enclosed.

The Increasing Harmful Effect Of Mobile Games On Children

The way in which mobile gaming dominates children day by day, it can be estimated from this that the child is ready to do anything. In addition to harming themselves, they do not shy away from hurting the people around them. A student studying in third grade of eight years commits suicide. At the last minute, it comes to light that the room goes away while playing a mobile game. When the mother calls for breakfast, the child is found hanging from the fan.
Experts say that mobile gaming is affecting children’s education. The craze is such that children are not going to school. Even if you are going, you are bunking class or leave homework. If you say something, you get irritated. Negative effects are taking place.
– Gaming disorders are triggered due to changes in the neuro-transmitters in the brain of. Similar changes to get to see the changes in children’s behavior.
– Repeatedly is the idea of ​​the same kind and have diseases like Sspektrm disorder.
– Due to these games many times children feel themselves in overburden or over pressure.
– They become stubborn with anger. Due to lack of sleep, their performance in education is also weak.
– Having sleep problems
– Disconnect from society
– Loss of concentration, amnesia
– Increase aggression from the game
– Irritability in the nature of children
– Lack of time to do creative work
– Eyesight is being affected.
– Problems like obesity, blood pressure and diabetes by sitting continuously.
– To harm oneself and others.
– The child lives separately (alone) from the group and people
– There is less anger in the child, but irritability
– Normal in studies but weakest in sports
– Physical thin and suffering from seasonal diseases
– Mental States Examination.
– Clinical Evaluation.
– Psychological test and brain imaging.
– Psychotherapy, behavior therapy and medicines.
– Parental time for children.

Many children play games because they feel lonely or frustrated for some reason. Such cases are aggravated by seeing each other, so now there is a need to be more vigilant for children. Consider the negative changes in children’s behavior while playing harmful games.
If children are using mobile, then keep an eye on what they are more interested in. Explain if the child is playing games, pubg or any other game in mobile. Try to distribute his energy slowly. Use it for other work. Delete the game.
Many students pay less attention to studies and keep playing games or running social networking sites on mobile. This wastes a lot of their time. Mobile phones come in the market with new features in a very short time and people make up their mind to buy them. Many people have to face financial troubles due to changing mobile phones so often.
Sometimes to entertain the children, sometimes due to their stubbornness, the parents give them their mobile, nowadays the smartphone has become a child’s toy, but do you know that the mobile can make your child’s brain weak. What happens to the use of mobile more on the brain of children?
So keep your children away from mobile phones and try to give your more time to them and don’t use mobile phones more in front of them.

FRENCH WORDS THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW

A blanc- cooking in buttercauliflower, au blanc- white liquid- mushroom, a
brun- to brown
A la- amandine, láncienne, l’anglaise, bourgeoise, broche, carte, diable,
francsaise, al’huile, greque, king, minute (to order), mode, orly, parmigiane
westphaliene- salt pork wrap roast, juniper berries, herbs, diced apples,
thick gravy
Abaisser- to roll a pastry/ dough
Abatis de volaille- giblets, gizzards
Abats- offals,
Acidulated water- 1 tspn lime juice / pint
Acrolein- on excess heating, fats and oils decomposes into fatty acids and
acrolein, responsible for pungent smell
Aging—34-36f Agneau￾Aile- wing part of poultry/ game bird
Aigrettes- cheese straw
Ailerons- winglets
Airelle rouge- cranberry
Aloyau- sirloin
Alylest- a dish of giblet and liver
Ameaux- puff pasry incorporating eggs
Amourettes- bone marrow
Anana- pineapple
Anchois- anchovy
Anchoidae- nchovy flavoured dish Andouille- sausages of pok chitterlings, andouillette
Angelique- angelica,
Animelles- means the internal edible viscera of animals.
Anis- aniseeds
Appareil- prepared mix
Arroser- baste
Arromates- flavoring compouns in stock.
Artichoke- globe- flower, Jerusalem- tuber
Ascorbic acid, acetic acid, citric acid,
Assaisonner- to season
Assiette anglaise- cold meat platter
Assorti- assortment
Attereaux- skeweres
Attelet- skewers with metal head
Au – beurre- butter, choix, four (baked) Italian, gras (meat rich gravy),
gratin- (under salamander with sauce, cheese, butter, breadcrumbs), jus,
maigre, naturel, sec (reduce)Vin blanc- white wine, Vin Rouge- red wine,au
choix- of choice, de choix prime quality
Avocado- Alligator pear
Large kernel, soft rind, yellow pulp, delicate rich flavor, red purple, green
Skin
Bacteria- microorganisms
Bag out- piping
Baking soda- in vegetables- spoil Vit C
Barder- covering with bacon fat, fat strips- lardon
Bar le duc- jam from red currantwithout seed, town in Lorraine, France
Baron- roast with leg and loin, double baron- poultry boat shaped pastry case
Bast- to brush with fat or a mix with flavours and liquids brushed
Bat out- press to get a size
Baume- Antoine Baume, hydrometer, concentration
Beaf tea- concentrated beef stock
Beignets- fritters
Bel passé- a cheese
Beurre – fondue (melted), noir (black), noisette (walnut),
Beurre manie- kneaded butter, equal butter and flour, thickening agent,
Blanchir- white (bones, meats), retain color (green), skin out (tomato), limp,
less volume, preserve, further cooking faster- in particular without color,
preservation, taste, maintain texture,
Blanquette- white stew
Bloaters- a processed fish
Bloom- chocolate- White, bread crust, sugar- white specled appearance,
crystallization.
Boiled icing- thread stage- 238f, egg white, confectioners’sugars
Boaston Bake- baked beans
Bouchees- small puffcastry cases with filling
Bouilir- to boil
Bread- 11-13% gluten, two ways, high ratio method,
Brine- salt solution used for canning and food preservation
Brunoise- saltsolution used in culinary
Bouillon- a variety of clear unpassed soup without thickening
Canape- the smallest variety of open sandwich
Carapace- shell of lobster Casserole- dish used for stews
Cassoulet-de Toulouse- beans cooked with sausage meat.
Chapelure- dried bread crumbs- fried dried bread, dry- Raspings
Chateaubriand- middle/ family steak
Chauffant- Pan of hot salted water for reheating foods
Chili corn carne- Mexican beans cooked with tomato puree, and meat
Chinois-china cap
Choux paste- egg added at 68c/ 150f,
Civet- brown stew, game- hare, blood
Cloute- studded, cloves
Concasse- roughly blanched chopped tomatoes and cooked sauce with this
Contrefillet- boned sirloin of beef
Cook- Au bleu, saignant, a point, bien cuit
Cordon- thread/ line of sauce, kidney shape, Cordon bleu cookery style
Cote- rib chop
Cotelette- cutlet
Coulis – puree
Coupe with accent- cut, without accent- individual serving bowl, mould,
Crème fraiche- fresh cream
Creole-a sophisticated pidgin -Eng, Dutch/ Portugaise, Fr- language that
served as a mother tongue and spoken in the Caribbean, people of mixed
descent living in the Caribbean or Latin America
Crepe- pancake
Crepinette- flat sausage with crepine
Cromesquis/ Kromeskis- fried with yeast battertill golden brown
Croquettes- Frit a lánglaise Croustades- on crust
Cuisine- Care of equipments, Understanding the basic methods, Safety in handling equipments, you and others, Initiation you have to take, neatness in doing workand presentation, efficiency in yourself
Cuisse de poulet- chicken leg
Couvrir- cover, coat
Darne- cut of fish on the bone in round fish
Deglacer- taking out theflavouring from cooking pot
Degraisser- scum,
Desosser- debone
Duxelle- choppe mushroos, garlic and scallions or onions cooked togrthet,
basic continental flavoring,
Ecclairs- choux pate baked finger shape with sweet /savory filling
Entoleter- Antifungal machine-Maida, high impact against hard surface
Escalope- thin slice of meat favorably veal
Entrecote- a steak cut from the boned sirloin￾Escherichia coli- sewage, soil, vegetables,
Fait tout- flared sides
Fines herbes- Parsley, Tarragon and Chervil
Flake-break into natural segments- fish, chicken,
Flan- a type of baking flat with filling and bright finish, asavory or sweet with
differet names
Fleurons- half moon shape flakies for garnish specifically dfish
Flutes- a gsrnish in French onion dsoup, a floating bread crust with chesse
and egg yolk
Fondue- dish- egg, milk, cheese, bread,
Frappe—chilled Fricasse- meat, poultry
Frijoles- beans, fat, seasoning
Friture- pan with deep fat, frying kettle
Gamberoni- large Pacific prawn
Glace- / Glaze- color ubnder salamander, reduce vegetable liquid- carrot,
Graham Flour- whole wheat flour named after Sylvester Graham, 19th
century, American dietary reformer
Hache- finely chopped/minced,
Hollandise- hot emulsion sauce with egg yolk and clarified butter
Herrings- a popular variety of fish in Europe
Jardinière- jardin- garden, baton
Jus lie- false gravy prepared with carcasse, deglaced liquid, mirepoix, and
other flasvourings available to match the dish.
Knock down- punch to remove carbon dioxide after fermentation
Lardon- batons of thick streaky bacon
Limpa- Swedish rye bread,
Lobster- tomalley, Medaillon, Tomalley (liver), Carapace
Macedoine- ½ cmxcmxcm, ¼ “x”x”,
Mackerel, Kippers- fish
Mayonnaise- cpold emulsion of salad oil and egg yolk, developed by Bayon,
Mignonette- coarsely ground pepper, mill pepper- from peppermill
Mousse- is a light soft preparation either sweet or savory in which the
ingredients are whisked, or blended and then folded together. Mousses are
often set in a mouldand usually served cold. Savory mousse are served as an
horsdóeuvre or entrée, msy be based on fish, shell fish, poultry, foie gras,
ham, vegetables etc. Sweet mousses are usually based as fruitsor flavoring
such as chocolates or coffee. Mushrooms- Cepes- Boletus edutes- spongy gills,chanterelles. Chanterellus cibaricus- fluted margin , smoothy yellow on top, plated up the
stack, under the cap like ribs in a fan vaulted church, Field mushroom￾Agaricus campestris- pushing its white cap up through the grass in the
morning. Pinkish fawn benearh and soft to tough makes the best sreakfast
dishes, Grisette, Matsutake/ Gucchi, Morel- Morchella esculenta- springtime
mushroom resembles a brown sponge, and is hollow in the center, Oyster,
Rubbe Brush, Shittake, Truffle,
Napper- coat, mask
Native- English oysters
Navarin- brown, lamb/ mutton
Noisette- boned out loin of lamb
Nouvelle cream- adding cream to reduced stock
Oignon Pique- Pricked onion with cloves, wrapped in bay leaf
Oignon brule- Burnt onion
Pailarde- scallop of meat pounded until thin, usually grilled
Pane- sprinkle or coat with crumb, fry mis en place,
Pantin- pate baked in a crust without any mould, simply in a baking sheet,
not a common preparation- like wellington
Papillote- wrapped in paper for further cooking
Par stock- Stocks necessary to cover operating needs between deliveries
Parts of knife- point, edge, back, blade, rivet- blade inside handle, handle,
heel, tan/ nots
Pastrami- Highly spiced corn beef brisket
Paupiette- stuffed and rolled (strip of meat)
Paysanne- fermier- even, thin, pieces- triangle, round, square
Pellicle- membrane,
Persillade- a mix of parsley, breadcrumb, butter / oil and other things for
roasting and grilling Persil- parsley
Pesto- thick, puree, herb- basil, for pasta, garnish soup, with grated cheese,
nuts, seeds, seasoning and of various types
Petite marmite- stock pot literal meaning, seasoned stock used as sopup
served in a double handled special container in large quantity
Pie- covered crust with height for baking
Pince- Fr- to caramelize – sauté- tomato
Pique- oignon pique
Poultry and games- Breast- Blanc, Carcass- Carcasse, wing- Aile, Wnglet￾Ailerons, Drumstick- Grass de cuisse, Thigh- Pilon,
Profiteroles- small chous paste bakes with filling
Raft- consommé residue
Ragout-stew
Refresh- to put into hot water and remove
Rissoler-frying to golden brown
Rondeau- shallow- straight side, two loops
Roulade- rolled in french
Sabayon- the ribbon flowing consistency or a sweet made with syrup, egg
yolk, port/ Marsala/ Rum -Zabaglione
Sachet dépices- Fr- Parsley stems, cracked peppercorns, dried thymes,
bayleaf
Sautoir- straight, Sauteuse- slope
Scald- to put into very hot water and remove
Score- to put cut marks and also the evaluated marks given by connoisseurs
Scrapple- boiled mixture of pork trimming, buckwheat, corn meal
Silverskin- tough connective tissue that surrounds certain muscles
Singe- cook to golden brownSmorrebrod- smothered breadlurry- liquid with starch
Smother- to cook in a covered pan with a little liquid over the heat
Smitane- mild- onion, scallion, not shallots, mild flavour
Souffle- puffed- a hot preparation which is served straight from the oven
that it is well risen above the height of the mould in which it is cooked. It is
served as horsd’oeuvres (savory) or sweets
Spas cooking- cooking style – high quality, well presented, help the chef de
pertie as necessary
Spring form pan- round, straight side pan; sides are formed by a hoop that
can be unclamped and detatched from base
Spumoni- i/c, in different layers with nuts
Squab- domesticated pigeon that has not begun to fly, 3-4 month, 1lb, light,
tender, sauté, roast, grill
Steel- 14’’/ 33-50 cm rod used to refresh the knife, keep sharp
Stroganoff- Sauteed beaf in sour cream with mushroom and onions
Strudel- Pastry made of paper thin rolled dough
Sucrose Polyester- SPE- looks, smells, tastes like ordinary cooking oil, but is
not absorbed by body.
Supreme- veloute and heavy cream, breast, fillet and wing of chicken, fish
fillet cut into triangles like fillet of small fish
Sweat- Cook in fat under a lid without color
Swiss- pound meat, (beef), flour, seasoning, – breaks–tender
Taste- sweet- sugar 1 -200 parts, salt- inorganic salt,- 1-400 parts- sour￾acid1 to 1, 30, 000, bitter-alkaloids1- 20, 00, 000- quinine delectably bitter
Tea rolls- small sweet buns
Temper- heat chocolate gently and gradually, gradually raise temperature,
incorporate hot liquid gradually into a liason, add flavoured hot oil- Indian
with panchphoran
Tempura- seafood, coated with batter, deep friedTorte- german, cakes, layer, large fancy, enriched wuth cream, marzipan,
Tragacanth- gum to set, from Astragalus exudes,
Trichinella spiralis- spiral, Trichinosis vulgare-Trichinosis nematode,
Trifle- desserts, English, layers, sponge, custard sauce, whipped cream,
preserves, jelly
Tripe- edible stomach lining
Trough- shallow container, hold large mass of rising dough
Tunnel- hole in bread, a problem in slicing and making sandwich
Tutti frutti- mixture of candid fruits
Vacherin- crisp meringueshell, cream, fruit,. Other item
Waffles- American confection baked from a thin batter between heated
waffle irons. They are eaten with liberal helps of maple syrup, jam, honey or
melted butter.—veg cut- grid/ basket weave,
Weinerschnitzel- breaded veal cutlet served with lemon
Xantham- gum, emulsifier, stabilizer, fillings, syrup, solution very thick but
pourable
Tremp- soak, steep
Tripe- 1
st and 2nd stomach- Rumen, Reticulum- of bovines, cleaned, scalded
Truffles- Perigord – France, Umbria in Italy, White- Piedmont- Italy
Vesiga- spinal marrow of Beluga sturgeon
Vichy- springs
Vichyssoise- potato, leek soup, chicken stock, cream, chill, chives
Vol au vent – puff pastry shell with filling
Zabaglione- a special Italian sweet
Zampone- skinof pig’s feet stuffedwith sausage mix
Zwieback- hard, crispy, toasted biscuits

SCATHED LIPS

Seafoam, her rhythms matched the sea waves

a perfect duet

At dusk, she knelt at the altar

bent low, with an air of tranquility, prayer at her lips

eyes shut with grave devotion

all the emotions that she felt, now flooding

stained glass of the church halls

and the whitewashed walls couldn’t do justice to what she held

as candles flicker, a memory fresh, as the pain she felt

a photograph, that bound her heart, that she cherished

of her and her mother’s, of her tender scent, endearing touch, like a ray of sunshine

like the bells of  a church her laugh, ringing

she reminisced, her voice, a warm embrace, singing carols in the dead Christmas nights

the crackling of the firewood, of hot embers and her hand, clasped  in her mother’s

A sudden jolt and she was rudely awakened from her memory

the bullets came first, devouring her, famished

destroying the stained glass

diminishing the light within until it was extinguished

Her faith wrecked, her body, broken

sudden flashbacks engulfed her, her mother’s sudden urges awakened her

as she stumbled for what her life was worth, couldn’t reach the altar

the bombs shook the walls

resonated far away

and there she lay

with her memories

of happier times, of sweeter days

the prayer snatched from her scathed lips

Desolated shorelines, now nobody danced with the sea waves

nobody caressed the sea foam.

ANOUSHKA MUKHERJI

This poem showcases the memories of the girl who danced along with the sea waves. The waves remember her rhythmic footsteps with the soft sand beneath her feet. It is understood that she is a very religious person who used to regularly visit the church with her mother. Now her mother is no longer by her side and she keeps having flashbacks of happier times with her mom. They used to pray together, sing carols during Christmas night, and dance together. She misses her warm embrace and rendering touch and her scent still lingers in her memory fresh as if she is still by her side. It seems that her mother died a very tragic death and might have been killed in the ongoing war. It is painful for the girl to recount those memories and she tries to bury them deep in her heart. All that she holds now of her mother is the old photography which was the only thing left behind of her mother. As she kneels down to pray at the altar she is suddenly awakened by the bullets which starts destroying the church windows and one by one starts wrecking the whole building, the girl tries with all her might to run as fast as she can away from the bullets but all in vain. Lastly, we see that the girl faces a similar fate as her mother and ends us dead inside the church walls. With all that fades away, the church in ruins now no longer can hold her memories of sweeter and simpler times. Now the shores miss the girl who danced along with the waves, the girl who came to pray with her mother.