1 medium green capsicum, seeded and diced 8-10 fresh button mushrooms, quartered 1 medium carrot, 1 cm cubes 1/2 cup green peas2 tablespoons sweet corn niblets1 tablespoon oil3 cups vegetable stockSalt to tasteA pinch of sugar 1 whole dry red chilli, crushed2 tablespoons cornflour Method:Heat oil, add green capsicum and mushrooms and cook for two to three minutes on high heat. Add warm vegetable stock along with carrot, green peas and sweet corn niblets. Bring to a boil. Add salt to taste, sugar and crushed red chilli. Add cornflour blended in quarter cup of water, stirring continuously. Cook on high heat for one minute. Serve piping hot.

We talk about modern India and modern “soch-vichar”.  We go to cinemas to watch English movies and then we show-off among our friends that we know everything about Hollywood and Western culture. We talk, walk and eat like them and even copy their food; Italian, continental, burger, pizza, hotdog, pasta and god knows what more. We celebrate all festivals whether it belongs to our culture or not, but just b’coz it is celebrated in western countries we do it (Valentine day). We colour and style our hair, want to wear branded clothes and throw some western attitude at others. We make sure that our child speaks fluent English at the age of 3, infact the first word of the baby should be ...

A four-storeyed building collapsed in Surat yesterday, but there were no casualties as the fire brigade had evacuated the occupants in time. Occupants of Firdosh Guest House, in Kamela Darwaja area, had found building had tilted in the morning. The shopkeepers tried to open the shutter of their shops but were unable to lift it. They informed the fire brigade and vacated the building. Official say the two huge hoardings on top of the building may have caused the collapse. According to official sources the Firdaus building on the busy Ring road was damaged during the last year floods. The building collapsed like a pack of cards. I am sure we all have seen a collapsed building before, but ...

 I was shocked, when Tony Blair announced that he will step down as a Prime Minister on 27th of June 2007. I always admired him, I still remember when he became the Prime Minister in 1997 and was on every news channel. He was dashing and dynamic. At that moment I wished we had a Prime Minister like him for India. Well we had, not one but two Mrs Indira Gandhi and Mr Rajiv Gandhi (our bad luck we lost them too early). I don’t think Blair should step down as a Prime Minister, if anybody has guts, then why not fight him in elections and let the people of the UK decide who should be the next Prime Minister. ...

The collaboration service codename "Tahiti", a screen sharing beta software rebranded as Microsoft SharedView from Microsoft is now available for public download . This tool can be considered as a hybrid collaborative experience that Microsoft is putting out which is a cross between Windows Meeting spaces and the web hosted MS Office Livemeeting service. This tool is targeted at the small meeting space ( maximum of 15 users) to share screen and collaborate real time. It requires you to sign in with a  Windows Live ID account to initiate MS SharedView meeting. You will still have to wait for the future releases of Microsoft SharedView to get chat/audio support. How to use MS SharedView? To start a session using this program, you ...

Ok Let's talk about Shilpa Shetty again, the girl is getting hotter and richer, Thanks to her stars and Celebrity Big Brother UK. Walah! After big brother whenever she was on the TV, I was just glued to it. Her saree, makeup and style everything just attracted me. Ok now I am giving up a very big secret, when she was in big brother house I use to watch her 24/7 just to get a glimpse of her putting on makeup. But she is very smart, she never did her makeup in the bathroom in front of big mirror, instead she use to sneak into the toilet and do the makeup (didn’t give me any makeup tips). I use to like the way ...

Last night I saw a documentary on BBC2 (London) “Super Slim Me.” The writer and TV presenter Dawn Porter was on mission to shrink from her UK size 12 to the much touted super-skinny Hollywood size Zero (which is UK size 4). Surviving on just 500 calories per day and participating in a gruelling fitness regimen. Watching that documentary I was gutted, because from last few weeks I was thinking I am on diet (preparing me for summer). I had stopped taking my breakfast (no aloo ka paratha or andaa bread), cut down my lunch to just pasta (that to loads of pasta) and in dinner 3 chapati and lots of sabzi. Yeah! Basically I was just skipping my breakfast and thinking I ...

Q:  What apt advice would Ekta Kapoor give to the coach of the Indian cricket team? A:   Kricket Krazy Kountry Ke Kricket Koach Ko Kaho Ki Khiladiyon Ko Kricket Ka Krash Kourse Karvaye.

Maqbool Fida Husain, famous for creating controversies and than apolozing. In 1966, he was awarded the prestigious Padma Shree award by the Government of India. I reckon this old man is totally insane. He thinks creating controversies will give him and his paintings (nude paintings of Hindu Gods) exposure. I have read somewhere he raise money for people in Jammu & Kashmir by selling his paintings for millions and billions. People who buy those paintings must be having a very disgusting taste. Poor M F Hussain he can’t paint his own spiritual Gods and Saints, maybe fearing a “Fatwa” would be declared for him or he would be murdered in no time at all. So he ...

3-step to healthy skin Cleansing scrub: Mix ¼ cup Multani Mitti, ¼ cup dried orange peel, and two tbsps sandalwood powder. Store the mixture in a container. Mix one tsp with water, and work it into your skin. Rinse with warm water. Cleansing mask: Mix ¼ tsp Multani Mitti, some tomato pulp, cucumber juice and yoghurt. Leave it on your face for 20 minutes, and rinse. Toning Mask: Mix one beaten egg white, one tbsp yoghurt and Multani Mitti. Leave it on your face till it dries, and rinse.