Archive for September 1st, 2008

Vinayagar Sathurthi

1 September 2008

Vinayagar or Ganesha Sathurthi is widely celebrated by Hindus everywhere. The festival will lasts for 10 days. The main sweet-dish for this function is modakas(kuzhukattai), also known as modagams in South India. A modaka is a sort of dumpling made from rice flour with a stuffing of coconut, jaggery (brown sugar) and some other ingredients. [...]

Plastic Pollution

1 September 2008

Plastics are used because they are easy and cheap to make and they can last a long time. Unfortunately these same useful qualities can make plastic a huge pollution problem. Because the plastic is cheap it gets discarded easily and its persistence in the environment can do great harm. Urbanisation has added to the plastic [...]

September

1 September 2008

September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days.
In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month
of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when there was a calendar reform from the month of the Ides of [...]