A rare Indian fruit!

Hi folks!

I am back after a long time...

Today I want to share something different from the usual. It is about food (yay!!). I must tell you that I am a voracious eater :P. I love to taste different dishes from all over the world, especially the unusual and not-so-popular ones. However, my first post here on food is about a rare and unusual fruit available in India. Today from the local market of Bhadreswar (Hooghly, West Bengal, India) my dad bought two unfamiliar, almost spherical, greenish white fruits. Neither me, nor my sis had ever seen it before. Even my mom could not identify it. The fruits were a bit wider around the rim horizontally and the top and bottom surfaces were almost flat, making them easier to sit on plane surface. I asked my father what is it. He said, "It is called Golap Jamun." The inside was hollow and when he broke one, the uneven, round, loose wood-coloured seed came out. The seed looked like a small betel nut. I tasted the fruit and it was surprisingly sweet and had a slight hint of rose flavour. The texture of the flesh was soft and juicy. My mom exclaimed that she had seen the fruit once or twice in her childhood and after that it was completely lost. Thus she had almost forgotten how it looked like! Dad also said that it has become very rare these days, and can be found in the market briefly in the spring time. The vendor had only 6-8 of these fruits in his van and dad bought two of them for Rs. 5/- each for me and my sister. Then I searched in the Internet and came across a post by Chowder Singh from NDTV Foods, mentioning a similar experience he had with this fruit in Kolkata. The fruit is not much popular in India, but the name Gulab Jamun (Rose Apple in English) is known to all, since it is a famous dessert dish here. The fruit had a light rosy smell and hence the name Gulab Jamun. I took pictures of the other fruit and the seed which I am posting alongside. Now I am pretty curious about this newly-found fruit of mine! Please leave your comments if you know more about the fruit, its plantation, characteristics and nutritional values. Share the post if you like it and want to encourage others for its plantation. Next time when I will hear the name Gulab Jamun, I will surely remember this fruit before visualising a bowl of piping hot syrup dipped sweets of the same name!

The Gulab Jamun fruit The seed                     

The name

Hello folks, today's post will give you an idea of what else is coming next. This one will tell you why I choose this name for my blog. So let's begin!
KrishnaKoli is an Indian name immortalized by famous poet Rabindranath Tagore. The literal meaning of the word 'krishnakoli' is black bud. However, originally it is a flower bush in Sanskrit and Bengali. The name appears in one of his popular songs. He has described KrishnaKoli as a fearless, sincere, subtle but somehow 'not-so-gorgeous-from-outside', typical dark Bengali woman with mesmerizing gazelle-eyes. The name has been used here to describe people (I am not recognizing only women or any particular gender because I think there are KrishnaKolis present in every community) who are ordinary in their looks but whose personality flashes once you really start noticing them and eventually it attracts others. This blog explores such mysterious yet magnetic qualities among individuals and relates to those people who feels and acts that way.
Thank you for reading!

Identity

Hello everyone!
Merry Christmas to all in advance. Well I was wondering a lot lately on how to begin, with so many thoughts bubbling in my mind and finding it difficult to put them down in order..but then I told to myself,"Hey, let's start with the most recent one!"
So last week I was chatting with this new Facebook friend from my college while he asked "So, what's your story?". Before that question we were talking mostly about his love life. Although the context of the question was love and relationships, and I answered accordingly, saying "Mine is nothing special. Have committed two mistakes before that has made me feel a bit insecured about relationships.", but later I thought, why did I say this? What made me think more is that why didn't I say who I really am beyond those relationships. It's not uncommon for people to fall in and out of love. But there's really nothing new to talk about failed relationships and is definitely not the best point to state while introducing oneself to a complete stranger. I thought that why didn't I introduce that awesome girl to him who I really am? Why didn't I tell him about my dreams, my ambitions, my hobbies, my likes and dislikes, my friends and surroundings or any other thing that defines me? Why couldn't I say,"I'm just me.", like Viola did in August Rush. The thing I realized, is that, when you have really moved on from your past, especially the bitter ones, past seems just like another story you have read and remembered. And it is upto you whether you keep telling those stories to others or go ahead and create new ones!
Happy reading...