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via hindu.com Request to buy the simple clay idols of Ganesha...! Help control pollution friends! Tonnes of that metallic paint goes to the rivers :( Share across! Help in the noble cause.... worship and nobility hand in hand :) God bless all the devotees..! Buy clay Ganesha idols, and not the metal painted ones- State tells people The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has framed guidelines which will be distributed to the public. They include avoiding sale and worship of idols coloured with metal-based paints, providing impermeable lining for immersion tanks and spreading awareness through mass media, Kanwar Pal, Secretary, Department of Environment and Ecology, told The Hindu. The meeting discussed measures to stem increasing contamination of lakes, wells and groundwater such as demarcation and fencing of lake beds, intercepting and diverting sewage away from lakes, setting up sewage treatment plants, greening the lakes' periphery and so on.

Oh I borrowed this recipe for making Ukadiche Modak (Sweet stuffed Rice Flour Dumplings) from Foodcourt and I am posting it without alteration here (all credits to the foodcourt owner -esp coz its a recipe by "mom" :)) The cute little mouth-watering rice dumplings - a favourite of Ganesha :) To make about 10-12 Modaks Ingredients: For the cover: 1 cup fine , fresh Rice flour 1 cup water ¼ tsp salt 2 tsp oil For the filling: 1 cup freshly scrapped Coconut-only the white portion 1 cup crushed jaggery 2 tsp Khuskhus (poppy seeds) roasted Method: First make the Stuffing. Put the Coconut and jaggery in a heavy bottom pan and cook on medium flame, stiriing in between. Cook till the jaggery melts and the mixture becomes homogenous. Add the roasted poppy seeds and cook for few more minutes.Remove from heat and allow it to cool. (You can also add raisins, saffron and cardamom to the mixture if you like.) Now make the rice flour cover.The cover has to be made a bit careful