Milk in Nepal and India: the difference!

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 I have observed that whenever milk ferments when I am in India, the paneer or cottage cheese does not come out easily. Even if I boil it and add lime juice to it, the cheese formed is quite little and more powdery than cheesy.  But when the same happens in Nepal, the cheese formation is immediate, dense and cheesy. I do not have to do more efforts to get cottage cheese out of the milk in Nepal. What is the reason? I checked internet and found some factors that can affect the quality and amount of cheese  1. Freedom from pathogenic bacteria - Good cheese forms of milk is free from pathogenic bacteria. Differences between Nepali vs Indian panipuri  2. Different milk quality with different amounts of fats and proteins  3. Ultra-pasteurization can destroy vital enzymes and bacteria that are required for cheese formation  4. If temperature of milk is less when it ferments, cheese formation will be less.  5. If milk is rancid, it means it's fats are also br...
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Modi Government has failed in containment of Covid-19 pandemic on its soil: Arundhati Roy has asked for a stepdown

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 India is witnessing the worst second wave. It has gripped the nation and is suffocating it. Hospital beds are full and there is lack of oxygen and ventilators. The land has recorded the highest number of single day rise in cases with figures hitting 4.12 lakh in 24 hours. Also deaths have reached nearly 4000 and young people are now getting infected and dying more. There is no respite. And vaccine shortages have erupted to the miserable extent that state governments have started threatening the vaccine makers making him to flee to the UK. 

Modi Government to blame

Experts and analysts have studied the situation and feel that it is due to three reasons: mutant variants, misgovernance by Modi government and casual attitude of the public. 

But the government is refusing to accept its fallacies. They have put economy above health of the masses. Hence they are going slow on lockdowns. When cases were not so high last year, lockdown was imposed promptly leaving poor labourers in the lurch. And now with such an enormous number of cases, the government has been acting extremely slow. 

It is a clearcut case of irresponsibility and misgovernance. And the government remains mum to date on it. Opposition and intellectuals are upset and are demanding an answer, an apology, and a stepdown. 

Bad second wave in India: reasons for it

Arundhati Roy heavily criticizes Modi

Arundhati Roy (Source: Pinterest)

Famous writer, Arundhati Roy is never shy of voicing the truth. She has penned an opinion piece for Scroll website in which she has urged Modi to step down and submit a resignation for his failures. She added the the country needs a good government and Modi's government should step to give way to it. She wrote:

“And we don’t have one [good government]. We are running out of air. We are dying. We don’t have systems in place to know what to do with help even when it’s on hand.”

Further her article reads:

"We cannot wait till 2024. Never would people like myself have imagined the day would come when we would find ourselves appealing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for anything. Personally, I would rather have gone to prison than do that. But today, as we die in our homes, on the streets, in hospital car parks, in big cities, in small towns, in villages and forests and fields – I, an ordinary private citizen, am swallowing my pride to join millions of my fellow citizens in saying please sir, please, step aside. At least for now. I beseech you, step down,”

2024 is the next election year. 

More about Arundhati's article

Urging Modi to resign, she added:

"Hundreds of thousands of us will die, unnecessarily, if you don’t go. So, go now.”

“There are many in your party who can take your place for now. People who know they must get on even with political opponents in this moment of crisis. Whoever that person is – from your party, with the approval of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh – can head the government and a crisis management committee,” 

Suggesting a remedy for this disaster, she continued:

“The state chief ministers can elect a few representatives so that all parties feel represented. The Congress by virtue of being a national party can be on the committee too. And then scientists, public health experts, doctors, experienced bureaucrats... This is what is known as democracy.”

Will he comply? Nay. He is too power-crazy and self-centered for it. 



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