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16 FEATURES Friday, September 18, 2020 The Indian Weekender DRY FRUIT LADOOS INGREDIENTS • 1/3cup - grated coconut • 1/3cup - cashews • 1/3cup - almonds • 1/3cup - pistachios • 21/2tbsp - edible gum (gond katira) • 3/4cup - wheat flour (atta) • 1cup - jaggery (gur) • 11/2tbsp - water • 1/2tsp - cardamom powder • 6tbsp - clarified butter (ghee) Energy Bites INGREDIENTS • 1/4cup - walnuts • 1/4cup - almonds • 1/4cup - pistachios • 10 - dates • 5 - figs • 1tbsp - chia seeds • 2tbsp - shredded coconut METHOD • Add the walnuts to a food processor and pulse a few times until chopped. • Repeat the process with the almonds, pistachios and then transfer them into a bowl along with cashews. Set aside. • Add the dates, figs to a food processor and process until well combined. • Transfer them into a plate. Set aside. • Add chia seeds to the date mixture and mix well using your hands (as per your choice you can make powder of chia seeds and then add them). Add all the nuts to the date mixture and mix until all the ingredients come together. • With slightly damp hands, roll half tablespoon of the mixture into ball, then roll each ball in the shredded coconut. • Store the energy bites in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 3 months (Approximately 12 balls you will get). • Serve • TIP; If dates are dry, soak them in warm water for 30 minutes to soften and then drain. 18 September – 24 September 2020 | By Manisha Koushik ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) You may be compelled to try other alternatives on the professional front. A trip out of town may be on the cards for some. Keeping company of bright sparks will help you immensely on the academic front. Investment opportunities that are coming your way need to be vetted. Yoga and meditation are likely to prove of immense benefit. An irritable family member will need to be handled with soft gloves. Efforts put on the social front will be beneficial.Lucky No.:5 / Lucky Colour: Sea Green TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 20) A new situation cropping up at work will need careful handling. You will take steps to strengthen a loving relationship on the romantic front. Enjoying a ride with someone close cannot be ruled out for some. Homemakers can remain busy in doing up the house. Indecision about an issue affecting your life may keep you mentally ill at ease, but the outcome will be favourable. Some more efforts at work will be required to impress higher ups. Lucky No.3 / Lucky Colour: Beige GEMINI (MAY 21-JUN 21) There is a good chance of facing someone’s bad mood in this week, but you will tackle it. You are likely to travel in this week and profit from it. Some kind of compensation may be expected on the business front. You are likely to weather a cash crunch by opening other avenues of earning. Increased workload is foreseen on the academic front, but you will manage it well. A family trip may be organised. Love life will cruise along satisfactorily.Lucky No.: 15 / Lucky Colour: White CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 20) Getting sidelined on the social front is possible, if you cut yourself off. You will be totally geared up for a family member who needs your personal attention. A celebration is likely to brighten your week. You are likely to reap the fruits of your hard work on the professional front. Better opportunities come your way as you continue to perform well on the academic front. Worries bogging you down on the financial front are set to disappear.Lucky No. 9 / Lucky Colour: White METHOD • In a heavy base fry pan, over medium flame, dry roast grated coconut, then, transfer it into a plate and set aside. • Add 1 tablespoon of clarified butter in the same fry pan. • Roast almonds and cashews over medium flame until slightly aromatic. • Add pistachios and fry for another 2 minutes. • Transfer the nuts into a plate along side roasted coconut. • Once the nuts are cool then coarse grind them along with coconut and set aside for later use. • In the same frypan add 3 tablespoon VARIATION OF ENERGY BITE INGREDIENTS: 100gm - dates, chopped • 50gm - almonds, sliced • 50gm - pistachios, sliced • 50gm - cashews, chopped • 1tbsp - poppy seeds • 6 - figs, chopped • 1tbsp - cardamom powder • 1tbsp - pumpkin seeds • 3tbsp - clarified butter METHOD • In a fry pan dry roast poppy seeds and keep aside for later use. • In the same pan add 2 tablespoons of clarified LEO (JUL21-AUG 20) There is much substance in somebody’s advice, so don’t reject it out of hand. A compromise may be reached with someone not seeing eye to eye with you. You may get the time to resume something important that you have left midway at work. Persuasion may be needed to win over someone in your business circle. You may want things your way on the home front, but this may be resented by others. Health poses no problems. Lucky No.: 15 / Lucky Colour: Peach VIRGO (AUG 23-SEP 23) Probing the personal lives of others may give you thrills! Improvement in financial situation is foreseen. Good dietary control and a set routine will lead to total fitness. Some academic issues will need to be discussed with mentors on priority, so don’t dilly-dally. An honest appraisal of someone close to your heart is best avoided, lest it may upset him or her. Issues involving property should not be touched. Fun evening with beloved is foreseen. Lucky No.17 / Lucky Colour: Violet LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Raising capital for a venture will not pose any difficulties. Your desire to visit someone may make you undertake a journey. Homemakers will enjoy resetting the house. Something said in jest at work may put you at loggerheads with a colleague. Illness may visit you, if you are not careful about the season. Someone on the social front will prove immensely helpful in a personal matter. You may seek newer ways to attract the one you secretly love.Lucky No.18 / Lucky Colour: Cream SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) Get your facts right, before confronting someone, as you may cut a sorry figure. You may remain in a confused state of mind and not know how to tackle an issue that has cropped up on the social front. Guidance of your near and dear ones will prove a great help. Your interest in a current project will impress those who matter. Delegation will be the easiest way out at work, so go for it! Lucky No.: 1 Lucky Colour: Golden Brown of clarified butter. • Add edible gum and roast over medium flame till they are fluffy and separated. • Transfer puffed edible gum into a plate. • Again in the same fry pan add 2 tablespoon of clarified butter. • Add wheat flour and fry over medium flame until light brown in colour and aromatic (approximately for 8 minutes). • Transfer wheat flour into a plate. • Add nuts along with coconut to flour and mix well. butter over medium flame. • Add almonds, pistachios and cashews, roast them, then transfer them into a plate. • In the same pan add 1 tablespoon of clarified butter. Add dates and figs, roast them for 2-3 minutes, then transfer them into a plate. • Add roasted nuts to dates and figs. • Add cardamom powder and pumpkin seeds, mix everything until well combined. • Roll half tablespoon of the mixture into ball, then roll each ball in the roasted poppy seeds. Serve • Add puffed edible gum and cardamom powder to the flour mixture and mix everything well. Set aside. • In the same fry pan add jaggery along with water. • Melt jaggery over medium flame while stirring continuously, once the boil comes remove the pan from the flame. • Add flour mixture to the jaggery and mix everything until well combined with the spoon. • When jaggery cools down a bit, rub some clarified butter on your hands and then roll half tablespoon of the mixture into ball. Repeat the process until the mixture is finished. • Store dry fruit ladoo’s in an airtight container. • TIP; Everything is roasted for long shelf life. • These ladoo’s can be kept for months. • If using seeds, toast them until they turn aromatic then add them. • Gram flour (besan) can be used instead of wheat flour as per your choice. Manisha Koushik is a practicing astrologer, tarot card reader, numerologist, vastu and fengshui consultant based in India with a global presence through the online channels. She is available for consultations online as well. E-mail her at support@askmanisha.com or contact at +91-11-26449898 Mobile/Whatsapp: +91-9716145644 • www.askmanisha.com SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) You will remain a pillar of confidence in both professional and domestic spheres. Sound planning will find your project moving forward smoothly on the work front. Luck favours you on the academic front. Excellent earning on the side is foreseen for those moonlighting. A celebrity do is likely to provide a golden opportunity for networking and making influential friends. Lover may be in a romantic mood, so don’t let the opportunity go waste! You remain in excellent health. Lucky No.:11 / Lucky Colour: Lemon CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 21) Don’t get influenced by someone’s sweet talk, judge things for yourself. Whatever you have saved up till now will serve you well and contribute towards your comfort. You are likely to become conscious of your figure and take exercise routine more seriously. Someone who has a soft corner for you may bring romance into your life. A vacation is likely to prove most enjoyable, but too short! Property owned by you may start giving good returns. Lucky No.:15 / Lucky Colour: White AQUARIUS (JAN 22-FEB 19) Keeping superiors updated assumes importance now, so don’t falter on that score. You will have to overcome some issues that threaten to complicate matters at work. A lucrative deal may slip out of your hands, if you do not go for it now on the business front. Depleting financial strength will need bolstering up, so explore alternative avenues of earning. Beware of getting shortchanged in a transaction. Take steps to raise your image on the social front. Lucky No.: 2 / Lucky Colour: Peach Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20) Someone’s visit is likely to brighten your week. Excellent results are foretold in something that you have initiated on the professional front. Academic pursuits are likely to bring success and honour. Luck favours you on the financial front. Repaying a loan will not pose much problem. Celebratory mood prevails on the home front. A family youngster is likely to spring a pleasant surprise. You will be able to enjoy a stable love life. Health remains excellent. Lucky No. 22 / Lucky Colour: Light Blue
The Indian Weekender Friday, September 18, 2020 ENTERTAINMENT 17 John Abraham on insider-outsider debate: ‘Every person has to prove a point, either you complain about it or do your job’ John Abraham has said he is doesn’t subscribe to terms like insider or outsider and believes that every individual has to fight his/her own battle. The actor was speaking on the insideroutsider debate which has been raging since the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June. Sharing his views on the insider-outsider debate, John said, “I don’t subscribe to such terms. This is your Twitter trending culture. I believe every individual, be it an insider or outsider, has his/ her own battles to fight. Whether you are gracious about it or bitter, it’s your decision, but you have to fight this battle. Every person has to prove a point, either you complain about it, or put your head down and bloody do your job. I am clear I have come here to do my job, and I will do it well.” John added that every one has to create his/her own standards. Raveena: There is nothing I’d change about my life Actress Raveena Tandon looks forward to her upcoming role in the Kannada biggie, K.G.F Chapter 2, with as much enthusiasm as she looks back at her career of 29 years, saying everyday in her life is a new lesson. "It's been a long and a great journey, for sure. It has taught me a lot. I remember I was so young when I started. It was not easy but I didn't quit and always worked hard to make a respectable place for myself. There's so much I have learned in all these years. Life is the best teacher. Everyday comes with a new lesson," she said. Raveena was 16 when made her Bollywood debut opposite Salman Khan in 1991 with "Patthar Ke Phool", and since then her career has only been on the rise. Speaking about her career, Raveena also shared that she doesn't have any regrets in life. "I don't have any regrets in life. I never regret anything . I might have an incomplete dream but I never regret anything I have done. I believe destiny has a path to follow. I love my life. It could not be better than this. There is nothing that I would like to change about my life. I have made mistakes like other human beings. I have learned from them. So, no regrets. I thank God for giving me whatever I wanted in life," she added. “Did I come from outside the industry and make it on my own? Yes. It’s a great example for people. Do I think people from the industry are gracious? They are damn bloody gracious. Are all of them gracious? Maybe not, but that exists everywhere in every industry,” he added. John had made his acting debut with 2003 film Jism and is now a successful actor-producer with multiple films in his kitty. The Dostana actor was seen in three films last year: comedy multi-starrer Pagalpanti, spy thriller Romeo Akbar Walter and Batla House, of which he was also the co-producer. He currently has three projects in the making. He is yet to complete the shooting of Sanjay Gupta’s multi-starrer crime drama, Mumbai Saga. He will also be seen with Jacqueline Fernandez and Rakul Preet Singh in Attack, which he will coproduce as well. There is also Satyameva Jayate 2 lined up for release. Won’t remake Rangeela, it was near perfect: Ram Gopal Varma Director Ram Gopal Varma has plenty of the good, the bad and the ugly in his filmography, but Rangeela and Satya are his only films that the filmmaker believes are “near perfect” and don’t require a remake. Varma, also known by his initials RGV, has fond memories of shooting the 1995 romantic drama, starring Urmila Matondkar as Mili, a backup dancer aspiring to become an actor, Aamir Khan as her ‘tapori’ friend Munna and Jackie Shroff as Bollywood star Raj Kamal who takes a shine to her. The director said other than changing some photographic aspects and edit points, he would not retouch Satya (1998) and Rangeela, which also happen to be the most celebrated ones in his career. “Honestly speaking, in all the films that I made in my career and there are plenty of them, I feel I could not have made Rangeela and Satya better than what they are. Rangeela and Satya were near perfect, so I don’t think I would make them again,” Ram Gopal Varma said. The film, he said, was an ode to Urmila Matondkar’s beauty. “She worked in my Telugu film Gaayam and when I saw her dancing, I felt mesmerised. In fact, she is the main reason why I was inspired to make the film. It was to capture her beauty,” he said of the actor who also worked with the director in Daud, Satya, Mast, Jungle, and Bhoot. Ram Gopal Varma said even today when he meets women who were born after the film released, they admire the film for the manner in which it showcases Ranvir Shorey feels that ‘muck’ exists in Bollywood and those defending it are either the ‘gatekeepers’ of the industry or the ones bootlicking them. His comments come after Jaya Bachchan’s speech in the Parliament in which she protested against the portrayal of the film industry as a bed of vice. “The ones who come out defending the muck in #Bollywood are either the ‘gatekeepers’, or the ones sucking up to them. If you don’t like someone whistleblowing or using their freedom of expression, you’re free to use your freedom of enabling. Don’t see what the fuss is about,” he wrote. "Honestly speaking, in all the films that I made in my career and there are plenty of them, I feel I could not have made Rangeela and Satya better than what they are." Earlier, Ranvir revealed he was ‘professionally and socially isolated’ in Bollywood, after his fallout with the Bhatts. He also talked about how certain people wield a lot of power in the industry, which makes it an ‘uneven and unjust playground’. When asked about the insideroutsider debate, Ranvir said, “I see it as only a handful of people having the power over distribution and media, step-child treatment given to smaller films and talent which they don’t approve of. There is a constant struggle. Whenever a few people hold power which they are not accountable for, there will be this kind of an uneven and unjust a woman’s beauty and that’s the best compliment for him. From story, acting, costumes to music, the film is one of those rare ’90s gem that has remained fresh in the memory of the audience. It was quite a sensation upon its release and marked the Hindi movie debut of Oscar-winning music composer A R Rahman. Ram Gopal Varma said Aamir Khan’s character was based on a real person and the actor worked really hard to bring the role to life. “Aamir’s character was based on a guy I knew in college. It’s exactly his story, the way the film turned out to be. Aamir is a meticulous, methodical actor and he takes his characters seriously, like what kind of clothes they should wear and what would be the accent. He worked with (actor-writer) Neeraj Vohra to work on the lines. Full credit to him for that,” he added. On the other hand, Jackie Shroff goes by his instincts, the director shared. I don’t think he even listens to the story. He just goes by some gut instinct. I used to think that he does not listen and when I was telling him the climax of the film, he was driving. He suddenly stopped the car and hugged me. It was his way of saying that he loved the ending.” playground.” Kangana Ranaut has made similar claims, alleging that Bollywood is controlled by a ‘mafia’, and Karan Johar is its ‘main culprit’. She has accused Amol Palekar: Delight to hear today's generation talk profoundly about 'Gol Maal' Veteran actor Amol Palekar feels happy when he hears the young generation talk about his 1979 comedy classic, Gol Maal. The Hrishikesh Mukherjee film was about how a man lies to get a job but things get complicated when his orthodox boss gets suspicious. "Shooting for 'Gol Maal' was like a picnic" recalled Palekar. We "The fun and priceless moments we had while shooting for 'Gol Maal' is what is seen in this film and that is alive even today." used to have a lot of fun while shooting for this film. My friendship with Utpal (Dutt) da was a very different and a priceless one since we knew each other right from our theatre days." He added: "Often, while shooting scenes he used to tell me ways to improvise my performance to which he would accordingly improvise his own performance. Ours was a giveand-take relation! (Director) Hrishi da would also let us improvise most of the scenes in our own way before sharing his feedback." "The fun and priceless moments we had while shooting for 'Gol Maal' is what is seen in this film and that is alive even today. "It's such a delight to hear even today's generation talk profoundly about this film, despite the number of years that have gone by since the release of the film," said Palekar, walking down memory lane while shooting for an episode of "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs". Ranvir Shorey says those defending Bollywood are ‘either the gatekeepers or the ones sucking up to them’ him of ruining careers and using his clout to advance the careers of star kids. Jaya, in her speech in the Rajya Sabha, raised objection to the portrayal of the film industry as a ‘gutter’. “People in the entertainment industry are being flogged by social media. People who made their names in the industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the government tells such people not to use this kind of language,” she said, seemingly referring to Kangana’s claims that Bollywood is a ‘gutter’ and 99% of people in the industry engage in the use of drugs.
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