Join Us | Feedback | Visit Us | Disclaimer Brigade Gardenia Community Newsletter Volume 1 / Sep 08 Introducing Spandan In this Issue "Spandan", meaning resonance, vibration is our first in-house newsletter to reflect the vibrations & resonance of this thriving community of Brigade Gardenia. The concept of the newsletter has been on our mind for sometime now, and with a thriving community like ours, with number of families staying here from different culture, different state, and with different knowledge and experience; what better could bring about the best from all of us; is a Newsletter "Spandan". Know Your Campus Get Noticed Campus Kichdi Community Kitchen Page 3 FunXone Kids Corner Join the Team Featured Article – Get Noticed!! Festival Windup!! Straight from the Handi!! Campus Kichidi Know Your Campus Page 3 Independence Day & Annual Day Celebrations at Gardenia Know about your campus from Arun Bagchi. This issue we feature Sewage Treatment Plant’s (STP) of Gardenia Sunil Upadhaya, our Honorable secretary of Gardenia, shares his experiences, of life and his stay at Gardenia. We may have seen him always smiling and participating at every Gardenia event, and spending time at the association to make our stay at Gardenia a pleasant one. Let us take this opportunity to know him personally. Our resident Arghaya Palit, take you through the land of Biriyani and provides us with his submission on two “Rasoi’s” of biriyani cooking, the Mughlai & the Hyderabadi. Read On The months of festivals are here and, we make an attempt to capture the festivals over two issues of Spandan, and provide the relevance of these in our lives … Kids Corner Know about “How Bright is a Stars?” Make your own Fun tumbling Toy!!
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Brigade Gardenia Community Newsletter
Volume 1 / Sep 08
Introducing Spandan In this Issue
"Spandan", meaning resonance, vibration is our first in-house newsletter
to reflect the vibrations & resonance of this thriving community of Brigade
Gardenia. The concept of the newsletter has been on our mind for
sometime now, and with a thriving community like ours, with number of
families staying here from different culture, different state, and with
different knowledge and experience; what better could bring about the
best from all of us; is a Newsletter "Spandan".
Know Your Campus
Get Noticed
Campus Kichdi
Community Kitchen
Page 3
FunXone
Kids Corner
Join the Team
Featured Article – Get Noticed!!
Festival Windup!!
Straight from the Handi!!
Campus Kichidi
Know Your Campus
Page 3
Independence Day &
Annual Day Celebrations at Gardenia
Know about your campus from Arun
Bagchi. This issue we feature Sewage
Treatment Plant’s (STP) of Gardenia
Sunil Upadhaya, our Honorable secretary of
Gardenia, shares his experiences, of life and his
stay at Gardenia. We may have seen him always
smiling and participating at every Gardenia event,
and spending time at the association to make our
stay at Gardenia a pleasant one. Let us take this
opportunity to know him personally.
Our resident Arghaya Palit, take you through the land of Biriyani and provides
us with his submission on two “Rasoi’s” of biriyani cooking, the Mughlai & the
Hyderabadi. Read On
The months of festivals are here and, we make an attempt to capture the
festivals over two issues of Spandan, and provide the relevance of these in
our lives …
Kids Corner
Know about “How Bright is a Stars?”
Make your own Fun tumbling Toy!!
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Introducing "Spandan"
"Spandan", meaning resonance or vibration; is our
first in-house quarterly newsletter to reflect the
vibrations & resonance of this thriving community of
Brigade Gardenia. The concept of the newsletter has
been on our mind for sometime now, and with a
thriving community like ours, with number of families
staying here from different culture, state, and with
different knowledge and experience; what better
could bring about the best from all of us; is a
Newsletter "Spandan".
We aim to use this newsletter a medium of
communication, knowledge sharing, in turn enabling
a community knowledge management initiative
which in turn helps us to build a society, empowered
together to make Gardenia a better place to live in.
With our first edition, we have categorized our
sections we feel relevant to this news letter and
Spandan in whole. Through this newsletter we need
to know the campus well, only knowing about what it
has to offer is not enough, we also need to know and
sensitize the machine and people dependency we
have to run the campus, "Know your Campus", will
take you through a journey of our Machines,
dependencies, do's and dont's and create an
opportunity to know how we run and encourage
suggestions to run better.
India, the land of varied cultures and traditions is a
land of festivals and fairs. It is a land of festivity -
religious as well as folkloristic. Whether we go to the
East or the West, North or the South we would be
able to enjoy every month a festival or a fair. We have
a campus, representing all parts of the country, what
best but a "Campus Kichdi" to capture those
moments.
As we have different culture and community within
Gardenia, we have people, with varied knowledge
and experience. We would like to know them, and
thus we have"Page3" to capture them!! When Page3
is for adults, we cannot miss the children and we have
"Kids Corner" dedicated to them. We promote the
creative juices to flow, and encourage children’s to
manage this section and get noticed.
Make us laugh with your jokes, riddles and puzzles at
the "FunXone". Let the Foodies and Chefs @
Gardenia unearth the secret recipes and post them
on our "Community Kitchen".
We encourage Reviews on movies, music and books,
to be posted for the community to make a choice at
the "A Closer Look" section. We also invite featured
articles of general interest, and experiences on
our "Get Noticed" section.
Finally, this may be a brainchild of few good men, but
is not possible to be a huge success without
you "Joining us". We invite sub editors, volunteers,
articles and support to make this a huge success.
Please participate and make this a success.
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Know your Campus
Sewage Treatment Plant
B y A r u n B a g c h i A - 1 4 1 0
Liquid wastes coming out of any industry or
community are to be treated before discharging into
the environment. The nature and extent of pollution
varies widely from one industry to another. Water
pollution control methods are designed essentially to
maintain the quality of the receiving bodies of water
and to enable reuse of treated effluents for specific
purposes. To this end, statutory laws have been
enacted and control boards set up to monitor and
compel the polluting industries and organizations to
treat their liquid wastes to acceptable standards.
Methodology of waste water treatment varies with
the extent of pollution and the objectives. In general,
the removal of contaminants is brought about by
chemical and / or biological reactions, to provide
what is known as primary, secondary and tertiary
treatment. In primary treatment, physical operations
such as screening and sedimentation are used to
remove the floating and settle able solids. In
secondary treatment, biological and chemical
processes are used to remove most of the organic
matter. In tertiary treatment, additional processes
are used to remove other constituents such as
phosphorous and nitrogen for reuse.
Brigade Gardenia is a zero discharge campus, which
implies that no effluents other than run off rainwater
are discharged beyond our boundary walls. Two nos.
Sewage Treatment Plants, each of 225KLD have been
provided to treat the sewage and other effluents. The
treated water is fed into the open well inside the
campus and is reused for our landscaping purposes.
The STPs in Brigade Gardenia are designed to achieve
the following parameters, in an Extended Aeration
Activated Sludge System followed by tertiary
treatment to render the treated wastewater fit for
landscaping
BOD (Biochemical / Biological Oxygen Demand): Less
than 20 mg/litre.
TSS (Suspended Solids): Less than 30 mg/litre.
COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand): 100 mg/litre.
pH: 6.5 to 7.5
Raw effluent can be pumped from STP-1 to STP-2 for
treatment thereby enabling operation of both the
STPs intermittently. Clearance for Operation (CFO) is
obtained from Karnataka State Pollution Control
Board annually.
To know more on STP, download the technical
document from the file section of our website.
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Get Noticed!!
Straight from the Handi!!
B y A r g h a y a P a l i t A - 1 2 0 9
I was born and brought up in Kolkata but my roots lies
in Lucknow & having spent a greater part of my
childhood in this city of minnarets, azans, tehzeeb –
and more important of mughlai cuisine & the
dumpukht, I have naturally become snobbishly
contemptuous to what other Indian cities had to offer
in terms of ambiance & culinary delicacies. Trips to
various region in the country had further reinforced
what I had known all along – namely, that the all
round flavor of Lucknow was par excellence. But all
that was before I came to Hyderabad. Once I was
here I realized that finally I was in a city which could
give my ol' home town a run for its money.
At a first glance, Lucknow & Hyderabad have many
things in common. The respective muslim ruler of
both the cities have left their marks indelibly on the
skyline, and though students of ancient architecture
would shudder if I compare the Imambara & Baradari
of Wajid Ali Shah to the Charminar & Falaknama
palace of the Nizams, they both evoke a nostalgia of a
glory past that India may never experience again. The
mosques, minnarets, narrow bylanes, the sonoric call
to the evening namaz , with the sun setting behind
the gumbaj's wouldn't know whether you are in
Hyderabad or Lucknow.
But I am rambling. History & architecture are not my
fortes – good food is. And here, too, the similarities
are striking. The roadside eating joints look quite
similar in both the cities – the large blackend metal
pots of biriyani, the skewered chickens the sheek
kebabs – all look the same. But mughlai & nizami food
tastes poles apart. You need to taste both to realize
this – and since I am exquisitely qualified in that
respect, I will henceforth give you my free & frank
appraisal of the comparative merits of the two type
of cuisine. I must point out however that views
expressed below are those of my taste-buds alone.
Firstly, no self respecting Lucknowite would ever
invite you to dinner & serve chicken – mughlai dishes
are ideally prepared of mutton. Hyderabad on the
other hand sits of the richest hatchery belt of the
country, and nearly all ceremonial dishes have
chicken as their base. Infact, the Hyderabadi fashion
statement of the topping a plate of biriyani with
boiled eggs will not find many takers in Lucknow –
chicken biriyani is considered second-grade fare
there!!
The taste of the two schools of biriyani are also poles
apart. Bay leaves are an important ingredient of the
biriyani in this city – I was thrilled to learn that the
leaves are actually called “biriyani patti”here but not
in Lucknow. The Lucknavi biriyani is spicy, oily and
resplendent with keora water & food colors. It is a
meal in itself, and has no accompaniments other than
the sour “raita”. The Hyderabadi biriyani, on the
other hand, is less oily, gentler on your taste buds,
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and unlike a Lucknow meal, does not necessitate
anta-acids after dinner. There are more options
regarding accompaniments, too, one of them being
the “salan”- prepared of brinjal & chillies – thats is
served along with the biriyani. The meat
accompanying the biriyani is bland, thus not
interfering with the flavour of the biriyani per se.
Personally speaking, Hyderabad gets my enthusiastic
vote in the biriyani category.
Kebabs, however , are a different ball game. Even the
best selling joints in Hyderabad do not offer you
much variety in kebabs. Lucknow on the other hand
has an awesome 64 possible types of kebabs, and I
have not yet tasted shaami kebab here like they used
to make back home. Probably the predilection to
mutton explains this superiority – you just cannot
have good kebabs without good mutton. At the polls
Lucknow defiantly gets my Kebab vote.
Regarding breads, the honor are even. Lucknavi
rumali roti's are better, while Hyderabad scores on
the tandoori roti segment. Naan's are comparable,
and the multi layered paratha is prepared the exactly
the same way and tastes the samein both cities.
As far as various chicken preparations, the scores are
again probably tied. Personal opinions would play a
much greater role here, though Lucknow's kali mirch
chicken & dumpukht, and Hyderabad's Nahari &
chicken 65 probably have no counterparts in the rival
camp.
Finally, the dessert. The much talked about Lucknavi
“Zarda Pulav” is actually quite bland, not that you
really need do develop a taste for it to enjoy it. The
“khubani ka meetha” here on the other hand, is
absolutely divine, and the guy who had first thought
of adding a dash of vanilla ice cream to it should
receive some kind of civilian honor.
A last word of advice to all ye who have recently
landed in this city – the Hyderabadi penchant for
green chilies is worth watching out for. Go easy on
the gravies till you are used to fire within. And till that
time it may be prudent to condition your tounge over
“Mirchi-Bhajjies” & order chilli-less food even though
that is hardly suited for weak stomachs
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Festival Wind up!!
Janmashtami
Janmashtami or Gokulashtami as it is popularly
known in North India, is a festival full of joy and
gaiety. It celebrates with great pomp and show, the
birth of Lord Krishna who was born more than 5000
years ago in the 28th year of Dwapur Yug. It is one of
the most celebrated festivals for Hindus not only in
India but also, all over the world. Janmashtami is
about the joy, people all over the world feel for their
beloved Lord Krishna.
The Janmashtami of Mathura and Vrindavan, the
places where Lord Krishna had spent his childhood,
are famous all over the world. Devotees from across
the world come to these pious places to celebrate
Janmasthami. On this auspicious occasion, temples
and homes are beautifully decorated and illuminated.
Night long prayers are offered and religious hymns
are sung in temples. The priests chant holy mantras
and bath the idol with Panchamrit which comprises of
Gangajal (water from the holy Ganges River), milk,
ghee (clarified butter), curd, and honey pouring all
these from a conch shell. After this bath the idol of
the infant Krishna (also known as Balmukund) is
placed in a cradle. Devotional songs and dances mark
the celebration of this festive occasion all over
Northern India.
Janmaashtami, popularly known in Mumbai and
Pune as Dahi Handi is celebrated with enormous zeal
and enthusiasm. Various Handis are set up locally in
several parts of the city, and groups of youngsters,
called Govinda, travel around in trucks trying to break
as many handis as possible during the day.
Many such Govinda Pathaks compete with each
other, especially for the handis that dole out hefty
rewards. The event, in recent times, has gathered a
political flavor, and it is not uncommon for political
parties, and rich community groups to offer prizes
amounting to lakhs of rupees.
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Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated on the 4th day of the
bright half of Bhadrapad. This festival marks the
birthday of Lord Ganesh. Lord Ganesha or Ganpati is
one of the most popular deities in the Hindu religion.
It is worshipped by both Shaivites and Vaishnavites.
Even Buddhists and Jains have faith for Ganpati. He is
considered to be an avatar of both Shiva and Vishnu.
On the occasion of the Ganapati festival, a large
number of idols are made of clay or metal in all
possible sizes; sometimes even up to twenty feet.
People buy idols of Lord Ganesha and install them in
their houses and worship the idol for one to ten days,
after which the idols are taken out ceremoniously,
through the streets of the town (especially in
Maharashtra) and immersed into the river, sea or
well.
According to the legend, Lord Shiva, the Hindu God of
resolution, was away meditating on Mount Kailash.
His wife Parvati, wanted to bathe and having no-one
to guard the door to her house, conceived of the idea
of creating a son who could guard her. Parvati
created Ganesha out of the sandalwood paste that
she used for her bath and breathed life into the
figure. She then set him to stand guard at her door
and instructed him not to let anyone enter. Parvati
had the power to guard herself but she wanted to
take a long relaxing bath and knowing that someone
would come to bother her she would create a power
that could handle the most impatient (Ganesha).
Gardenia residents took initiative in celebrating
Ganesh Chaturthi at the BMS Hall of Golden Magic.
The celebrations were marked with Sthapna of Lord
Ganesh on 3rd
Sept, and every morning & evening,
residents offered their prayers and aarti. The ladies at
Gardenia, took the initiatives of preparing Ganeshji’s
favourite “Modhaks”, and delicious prasadam. Every
evening we had Bhajans and it was a great to see
residents actively participating in the celebrations.
We had the visarjan on 6th
and it was marked with
some cultural programs in the afternoon and visarjan
in the evening. Lord Ganesh, departed to the uproar
of “Ganapathi Bappa Mouruya” with a promise to be
back next year.
Photographs courtesy Ashok Krishnarao B912
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Onam
Onam is the biggest festival in the Indian state of
Kerala. Onam Festival falls during the Malayali month
of Chingam (Aug - Sep) and marks the homecoming of
legendary King Mahabali. Carnival of Onam lasts for
ten days and brings out the best of Kerala culture and