Educated daughters vs strong daughters: The difference

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Indian government, Indian law, and pro-female organizations in that land talk about increasing education of girls and women. I get very amused at this ineffective and useless propoganda that does nothing great to help the girl child and women. This is because most women even if educated are unable to continue work, career or do entrepreneurship because their parents or in-laws or community will not allow them. So it means educate them for namesake and then make them stagnant to do caring and cooking jobs at home. In short, educate them and again throw them in the same gutter or furnace as before. Education gives them no financial independence, no autonomy, no freedom to decide for self or children. Then what is the role of education for them? Nothing. I pity the parents who think that educating a daughter makes them finish their duty towards her. They continue to rear her as a cow or sheep. The net result is an educated women with no respect or autonomy and no space of her own. This ca...
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Gud vich umba or Gudumba recipe: a traditional Punjabi sweet dish

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Gud vich umba or Gudumba is a sweet recipe of Punjab. It is a traditional dish made in that fertile state of five rivers. It is easy and simple to make and one can easily do it at home.

The mango season is in and raw mangoes are now available in the market. If you have some mango trees in public places in your neighborhood, you can also pluck the mangoes from there. Some would be reminded of their childhood days while doing it. In rural areas, children use long sticks or stones to make the raw mangoes fall to the ground or climb up the tree and pluck it. 

Gud vich umba or gudumba (Source: Self)

For this dish you need:

Raw mangoes, washed from outside

Jaggery

Water

If you take 500 gms of mangoes, you will require around 300 gms of jaggery (Gud in local language). You can increase or decrease the amount of jaggery depending upon whether you want the dish to be more or less sweet. 

Read here: Easy pani puri or Gol gappa recipe with jaljeera powder

Recipe:

Place the raw mangoes in a pressure cooker and add around 500 ml.of potable water. Close the lid and cook for 1-3 whistles depending on the hardness of the mangoes. Usually in 3 whistles the mangoes get soft enough. 

When the steam gets released and the cooker cools down, open the lid and remove the cooked mangoes. Puncture the mangoes and squeeze out the pulp and seed. There will be some pulp attached to the skin of the mangoes as well. Keep it as well. 

In a separate pan take jaggery (cut into smaller pieces) and water and boil it until all the jaggery dissolves into it. Strain this water to remove any impurities. 

Place the peeled mango skins, pulp, and seeds into this jaggery water and immerse them inside it properly. You can cook this together to one boil. And your Gudumba is ready to be consumed after cooling. 


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