Is there any real Indian Restaurant in Sweden?

There is "NO" single real Indian restaurant in Sweden as per my knowledge. I have been in Sweden for more than four years and I have travelled places around Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmo in Sweden. What I can find is, most of the Pakistanis and Bangladeshi running the Indian restaurant, with the name of "Indisk restauarang" or ”Indisk Mat". Pity! The same situation continues to be found down in Cph as well. Speaking about authentic Indian restaurant, it's tough to have to in Sweden. As per my experience, many of the swedes are little stereotypic in sticking to very few common food dishes like "Naan", " Chicken Butter masala", "Chicken korma", " raitha" etc and they feel very hard to try any new cuisines introduced to them in the Indian restaurants. Trust me, my friend had a bad experience in selling few of our south Indian dishes in his Indian restaurant in Halmstad, Sweden. Moreover Swedes are not used to eat much hot/spicy food; there are few exceptional ones, who would taste the same amount of spicy food, tasted by any Telugu guy in India. I knew few of the swedes compares the naan bread with the one served in other restaurants in Sweden. Actually this should not be the case, they can only judge or compare, after eating food in any of the 28 states in India. In general people should have a little knowledge, about what kind of food they eat. Talking about Indian food, there are many traditional Indian food in our country, myself from Chennai(Madras) have our own cuisines like "idli", "dosa","sambhar","vada" any many other  varieties of food, which at least 98% of the swedes would have never come across in their life. Most of these foods are supposed to be eaten by hand, which hardly any western would prefer in the first case. The restaurants in Sweden provide the food with the mix of indo-Pakistani/ Pakistani and indo-Bangladeshi/Bangladeshi. Most of these people set their business for their livelihood, rather providing the authenticity in the taste with the food and culture, which they believe to do. There won't be many years to come, where their real identity would be lime lighted to the public.

Sachin Tendulkar retirement

Sachin’s 200 tests was a big thing to me in my life. I was not worried, when the 40 year old got retired from one day’s international and T-20, but knowing that he is playing his last match of his career made me feel heavy. It's only me, who feels like this but all the people around the world, who grew watching him playing in their early school times would have felt the sure. Those were the days, I used to watch only match for him and right after the wicket, I would either move away from that place or turn off the TV. Such kind of feelings, followed for a very long time with the game of cricket. No matter, he might be ranked after brad man in cricket; he will be always my 1st and ever best cricketer in my life time. I would like to share his final moments when entered the wankhande stadium, Mumbai for his final test match in his career. The standing ovation from the opponent team and a respect showed by the audience would be the honour showed to the Indian player.

Sachin's era has come end with his final test match in Mumbai. He not only persuaded his audience with his fabulous innings but also with his farewell speech. Sachin started talking his speech mentioning about his father, how he had helped Sachin to pursue his dreams when he was 11. Later Sachin reminded of his family especially anjali, how he got his support from her and also mentioning he couldn't be with his family for those years. Anjali was in full of tears and so all the Indian fans. The emotional speech of Sachin went on thanking his family members, senior player and current Indian player. He also thanked his management for their continued support. Sachin ended his speech by telling about the media and his greatest assets as his fans, by telling how he was enthralled by their supporting throughout his life. Sachin was emotional when he mentioning all those words. Sachin, Sachin was those mantra won't be chanted ever again, but his support to the India and Indian cricket team will be remembered in the history and shall remain a inspirational script for the generations who are yet to come.

Sachin has been consistent in scoring runs throughout his cricketing career. Sachin has best world cup performances is in the 1995, 2003 and 2011 world cup and he will remains the top run scorer in both ODI and Test cricket. His saga from 1989 to 2013, has been a splendid art to the cricket and his three decade success in playing the game with the legends like kapil dev, Sunil gavaskar, Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Mahendra singh Dhoni have kept in such a peak position in cricket.  His cricketing experience may be a age for few people, but his fame has never crossed his mind.

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Dhoni's Reaction after hitting six

Dhoni's reaction in world cup 2011 final match is very much similar to the IPL 2012 innings between Chennai super Kings and Pune warriors.

for full innings check:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBu-hMZVAU&feature=BFa&list=LLCnzOvtkrlA_9pV1Qd4sTtA
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnWchEtHlh8

Pepper and Peacock

Indian History can be put into many kinds of interesting paintings like Tempera, Pastel, Gouache work, but history can be made once.. I watched a documentary about story of India in BBC by M Wood. There he starts the describing about the Indian culture from south and later he goes to the north for having a sacred drink which has poppy, cannabis and ephedia as its ingredients. Later he speaks about Hindu belief like dharma, artha, karma and mokhsa.. Interesting is that they all should follow fire, water, air, earth and ether (sky). Interestingly he tells more about Buddha story and Sikhism who believed there is no Hindu and Muslim. The fact is that Sikhs are not allowed to cut or comb their hair and they needed the hear from the king and understand their deeds and work upon it. The history started when west started invading India in olden centuries. The kings like Alexander has made a history in the Asian sub continent. Chandra Gupta Maurya, Asoka  and khalinga are some of the names which are still talked down in the history. Tamil being the first classical language has also a part in Indian history. The attack of Augustus from Rome and kanishka from kushans has been a great tale in the history. Gupta's who ruled the north of India had Chandra Gupta maurya 2 has their head, while cholas who ruled down the south has been a keynote. Barber, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir and jayan has also made the 300 years of mughal empire alive in India. It's darah vs Aurangzeb who payed way for the British to enter India. Meanwhile shahjahans tajmahal has created a new love story around the world.

Movies which are related to this article:

Mangal pandey - amir khans movie
The tiger and the flame (1952)
Raja Raja cholan (1973)
Mughul - e - Azam (1960)
Ramayan - (1932)
Gandhi - (1985)
Ashoka - (2001)
Alexander - (2004)
and
BBC - STORY OF INDIA, 6 DVD'S

Victory for Anna Hazare!! Victory of Indian people!!

Anna Hazare finally agreed to break his fast, once the government of India agreed to pass the Lok Pal Bill. It was almost 98 hours; the great Indian called off his hunger strike against anti-corruption. The Government issued a notification with constitutes 10 member joint committee of ministers and other civil society activities to draft this bill. The strike was called off by a young girl offering water to the 73 year old leader. Other leaders called this act a Gandhian movement.

Election in Tamil Nadu

Power and money determines the election state in Tamil nadu, India.  Three states in India who win their votes through money are andra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil nadu. It's not only in these states but also happening around India. It’s strongly believed that promises cannot be broken or overruled. Using this sentimental concept they win their votes through carrying idols across the streets and getting confirmed for their votes through promises. There is another way of winning votes by distributing many freebies to the people. This is the custom happening now in Tamil nadu. Some parties even pay money to the people to cast their vote in favor of them. They reach each and every individuals house and offer a sum amount of 500 - 5000 INR depending upon the politicians how much he can afford. So it has become a situation only with the help of money any MP or MLA can enter into parliament. Distributing the money is a big crime according to the law, both the person has to be punished for bribing and receiving the money, but this action cannot be taken unless one complains on the other. The party worker s may not distribute the money but the coworkers who do the job for them. Earlier there was a problem like capturing the election booth and altering the votes around, but it has been made under control by providing proper security personal to every booth. It was muscle power in the beginning, but now its money power. Election commission in India is the best system found anywhere around the world, but the question is not having such good questions, instead it has to be followed or implemented. In earlier stages there were big banners and cut outs where installed around the state symbolically showing their votes in that particular region, but the election commission came up with a new rule of not having and banners, or posters around the state. Election system in India is same as the British system, not like other European countries. They obtain their seats through votes registered in the particular region. Media also plays a big role in getting the people's mind diverted. The news channels delivering their news which has a high impact on people, they expose the wrong doings like exposing the free bees. They advertise in a way that indirectly helps the parties by displaying something which seeks to highlight the material. Judiciary cannot help this situation; the case will be heard after a long time from the date which has been complained. The part followers should work for is party without considering his self-concise, but they ought to work for the party. Some people work for the labor and some have the notion that he can be our leader, since he is organizing things. Now this trend has been changed by doing the favorable things for the leader, which he needs. The parties are getting money through many corporate leaders; they distribute the money to all parties depending upon their capacity in winning votes in the places which they stand. This system also determines the industrial movement in one country. Their motto is published through magazine, and other journals. The money spend by the party should have a proper audit and it has to made publically, so the people are aware of things happening around their state. There should be transparency in the system. Each politician back ground should be checked before they enter parliament. They should not hold any criminal cases against them throughout the history. The young generations who are trying to enter politics should enter from the base level or grass roots; they can’t simply stand for the MLA place without knowing the loopholes in the basement level. The midterm election procedure should be changed, there should not be an election in the place where the leader is dead or changing his party, instead the candidate should be selected based upon the votes registered for the party initially for that particular place. The people's mentality should be changed in selecting their candidates who rule them for next five years. They have to consider the leaders who cares about them, their society etc. In some countries the voting is compulsory, but the democratic countries like India, it’s made optional. They can also show their interest by voting no candidate opinion. Gandhi’s goal about society, I want a society that will wipe every tear from every eye. He too believed that powers should be made de centralized, they should be not centered in one place. Each city or town should have their independent government.

Farmer’s opinion on election point of view, when asked since we didn’t receive enough rainfall, they don’t have sufficient resources to grow their crops, so they use this as an opportunity to get money from the politicians before elections.   This is the only and easiest way to obtain money. When asked do the farmer, he said” The fashion of giving money to candidates has been developed very recently, but previously they have voted for their favorite candidate. They do believe if someone is giving money, they don’t want to reject it. They also knew parties which are dominated are trying to buy their vote through money and the parties which are trying to make good for the people, don’t have sufficient money to provide them. Farmers believe the money which they are getting from the politicians is the tax money which they pay to the government. They do believe it’s their own money obtained through hard labor. They do knew that the politicians show their appearance only during the time of elections but not later after that’s farmer’s believe that mostly vote will be casted to the people who bribes money to them.

Anna Hazare hunger strike for Anti-coruption

Corruption has played an immense role in everyone’s life, at least in India. It has affected the people life in many ways. Starting from morning activities like brushing his/her teeth till sleeping in the mattress at night corruptions play a major role. The duty of the politicians is to follow the right constitution of their country; if this system gets corrupted the whole society gets corrupted. India is one such country which is fighting against corruption. Recently there was an ex-army man who fought 1965 Indo-Pak has come up to fight against corruption. This guy has been awarded Padma bhushan and known for his social activities. His support for a cause, in amendment of a law to curb corruption in India. He is advocating for a bill, The Lok Pal Bill that will form an autonomous authority who will make politicians, beaurocrats and others accountable for deeds. This bill was passed in 1972 by the law minister Mr. shanti Bhushan, since then it has been neglected by the politicians and some are trying to change the bill. Anna Hazare went on for a hunger strike for passing the bill. The things which he demands are to ask the government to come forward and announce the bill has been passed. There should also be a joint committee to draft the LOK PAL BILL. Nearly 50% government participation and 50% public participation and one can trust the government for making such a bill which doesn't suit them. If this bill is passed the trail cases will be heard soon and people who are found guilty will be punished. The support for this anti-corruption act has been enormously spread throughout the country and its getting more support from the local people.

Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

The most awaited video about india. check the personalities for the last decade.

The classic patriotic song "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" has been released now as new version "Phir Mile Sur" on the January 25th, 2010 for the eve of 60th Republic Day.The song is in 14 different Indian...