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Tejaswini Jaisimha, on September 24th, 2008 at 11:59 am Said:

Dear Nirupama,
Your website depicts how wholesome life is. It is truly a delight to read the articles and views you have shared, an eye of every detail that you of contributed on itslife.in. All the best to you.
Kailash Poddar, on November 13th, 2008 at 11:04 pm Said:

Hi,

Just stumbled across your site while looking for a picture of Hotel Mayura Hoysala. Thanks you so much for putting together such a beautiful and useful site,
Sharath, on February 25th, 2009 at 5:07 pm Said:

Have you ever considered compiling all these posts into book form? Could make sense. Anyway, please make sure you back up all your posts. Relatively simple to do this on Wordpress.

Sharath Bhat
Nirupama Sriram, on February 26th, 2009 at 11:32 am Said:

Thanks Sharath, yes..I am taking back up of all the posts periodically. One of my hobbies was to compile information into organized books. Hence, most of the information on this website is already in book formats complete with table of contents, index etc., (7 volumes of recipes, 1 on flower arranging, 1 on vegetable carving, 1 on bonsai, 2 on gardening). None of the books are published. With blogging technology I am very happy to be sharing this information with others.
Amit Rana, on March 17th, 2009 at 5:49 pm Said:

Hi Nirupama,

I was just going thru your cv and saw this link,it’s a beautiful site and believe me you are really good at writing..

Keep the good work up

Warm Regards:
Amit Rana
Nirupama Sriram, on March 17th, 2009 at 9:29 pm Said:

Hi Amit,
Thanks for the lovely words….it is so encouraging.
Regards,
Nirupama
Lavanya, on April 1st, 2009 at 2:35 pm Said:

Dear Nirupama,

Congratulations for writing such an informative blog.I stumbled upon it accidently.You have a very good collection on varied subjects. Keep this good work going, and educating people like me.

Thank you,
&
With best wishes,

Lavanya
Nirupama Sriram, on April 2nd, 2009 at 10:27 am Said:

Thank you Lavanya…
chato, on April 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 am Said:

I would like to use one of your photos of Tabebuia trees for a non-profit newsletter and would like your permission.

( http://www.itslife.in/wp-content/gallery/gardening/garden-tabebuia-aurea1.jpg )

and my be:

http://www.itslife.in/wp-content/gallery/gardening/garden-tabebuia-aurea5.jpg

The newsletter is for a mental health organization and of the volunteer authors refer to this tree so I thought it would be nice to show them what it looks like. (Circulation 1300 b/w but the online pdf file will be in color.)

please get back to me soon… They just gave me this project this week and I have to build a newsletter from scratch since they lost all the past files.. LOL They want it ready for print in two weeks too… if they only know how mach time it take to do something like this… but so is the live of a volunteer.

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Meera, on April 6th, 2009 at 3:12 pm Said:

Can you please post the recipe of ‘SANDIGE HULI’.

With Best Regards,
Nirupama Sriram, on April 7th, 2009 at 10:12 am Said:

Hi Meera, I will try to post Sandige Huli as soon as possible.
ನಿಖಿಲ್, on July 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm Said:

ಆತ್ಮೀಯ ನಿರುಪಮಾರವರೇ, ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಮನೋಜ್ಞವಾದ ವೆಬ್‌ಸೈಟ್. ಇಂದು ತಾನೇ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸೈಟ್ ಅನ್ನು ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿ ವೀಕ್ಷಿಸಿದೆ. ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಪ್ರಕಾರದ ವಿಷಯಗಳಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿ ಸಂಪದ್ಭಭರಿತವಾಗಿದೆ. ಸಂತಸವಾಯಿತು. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬರಹವನ್ನು ಮುಂದುವರಿಸಿ. ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.
Nirupama Sriram, on July 2nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm Said:

ಹಾಯ್ ನಿಖಿಲ್,
ನೀವು ನನ್ನ ವೆಬ್ಸೈಟ್ ಭೇಟಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದಕ್ಕೆ ತುಂಬ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.
ನಿರುಪಮ
Nandan, on July 18th, 2009 at 8:25 am Said:

Hi Nirupama,

very interesting blog with a mysorean twist, just like it. one of the very few to be sans rubbish, sans self proclamation found online.

liked all the sections. keep up the good work & let more come out of ur stable.

wanted to comment in namma kannada, but kud’nt.

regs.

Raghunandan.
Nirupama Sriram, on July 18th, 2009 at 8:44 am Said:

Namaskara Raghunandan,
Thanks for visiting and the comment. I will do my best to constantly update the blog.
Cheers!
Nirupama
k. sridhara, on July 21st, 2009 at 2:26 pm Said:

nimma baraha dalli Mysorena sogadu nodi santhosha ayithu-shubha haraikegalondige
Uma, on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm Said:

Dear Nirupama,
Your website is too good.It gives a lot of information on festivals and the ways on performing them.Thanks for the wonderful work .This morning I did the Bheemana amavasya pooja according to what you had written .
Cheers,
Uma
Nirupama Sriram, on July 22nd, 2009 at 7:02 pm Said:

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಶ್ರೀಧರ ರವರಿಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ನೋಡಿ ಮೆಚ್ಚಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.
Nirupama Sriram, on July 22nd, 2009 at 7:04 pm Said:

Dear Uma,
It is nice to hear that you performed the pooja using the information here as a guide. Thanks for the comment. Keep visiting and have a great festival season.
Nirupama
Shubha Shashikanth, on July 30th, 2009 at 12:52 pm Said:

Dear Nirupama.

I stumbled onto your lovely site while looking for Gejjevastra. I was in the process of making some myself instead of buying.Thanks for such a simple explanation and wonderful informative site.

I live in Mysore , so all the more nice to see a mysoreans site.

regards
shubha
Nirupama Sriram, on July 31st, 2009 at 6:01 am Said:

Hi Shubha,
Mysore is my favorite place on earth…I keep visiting very often. It is heartening to note you liked the information here. Lots more is coming…keep visiting.
With best best wishes,
Nirupama
susanta mistri, on August 1st, 2009 at 11:42 pm Said:

please give me a particular nursery address of bangalore from where i must get this tabebuia aura flower seeds. thank yoyu.
Nirupama Sriram, on August 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 pm Said:

Susanta, Lalbagh nursery is one of the best and largest in Bangalore.
Nirupama
ramya, on August 5th, 2009 at 5:56 am Said:

Hi Nirupama,

I am from Mysore. Wonderful recipes. I have tried couple of them.
Do you have recipe for sakkare holige (sugar Holige), if so pls
post it.

thanks a bunch, good luck

Ramya
Nirupama Sriram, on August 5th, 2009 at 9:12 am Said:

Ramya, thanks for visiting and trying out recipes. Yes I do have the recipe for sakkare holige will post it soon.
Regards
Nirupama
ramya, on August 11th, 2009 at 2:38 am Said:

Thanks, Nirupama
satish puranick, on August 11th, 2009 at 3:50 pm Said:

We are from allahabad and celebrate ganeshotsava . We would like to submitt a report about our function organise here . We have photograph also to display

How it can be happen
Nirupama Sriram, on August 13th, 2009 at 8:53 am Said:

Satish, I am sorry but right now I am not accepting contributors articles but I admire your enthusiasm to showcase your culture. Keep visiting.
Regards,
Nirupama
Krv.srinivasan, on August 18th, 2009 at 8:38 pm Said:

Dear Sow.Nirupama,I just happend 2 visit u r sight ,while going through jur Photograph of Sri.VeeraNarayanaswami.Its so nice 2 have a Dharshan of the Lord.As if i am inside the temle.Once again my best wishes n thanks for lthe nice sight .Pls.U can post me latest pictures,stories.all ablut Mysore n surroundings.
Nirupama Sriram, on August 19th, 2009 at 9:09 am Said:

Hello Srinivasan,
It is good to hear that you enjoyed the photograph, I feel my effort is paid when I hear that a reader is satisfied by seeing the pictures or by reading an article. Sure…there will be lots more pictures and articles coming. Please keep visiting.
Thanks and Regards,
Nirupama
Nirupama Sriram, on August 22nd, 2009 at 7:23 pm Said:

Hey Ramya,
I have posted your request for Sakkare holige recipe. Please check it out.
http://www.itslife.in/2009/08/sakkare-sugar-holige
Happy Gowri Ganesha festival!
Nirupama
sheba, on September 15th, 2009 at 9:16 pm Said:

U have some really good pics..very talented.
Nirupama Sriram, on September 16th, 2009 at 8:27 am Said:

Thanks Sheba for your views…I still have a long way to go!
Dinakar, on September 24th, 2009 at 12:33 am Said:

Nirupama avarige Namaskaaragalu.

Just like everybody else, stumbled to be here…. looking for ‘Dasara Flower Show’. When I looked around the website, I tried to lift it away with both hands, but could not…. it is so heavily loaded with so much information. Kudos to you for gathering all those ‘Mysorean stuff’ and making it e-available to the world! As a Mysorean (a rare breed these days, eh?) I thought this is a place to feel like a Mysorean! Generally, Mysoreans seldom leave Mysore and I’m one. I have not looked deeper into the website, but Southekai gojju, Herlekai gojju, Haagalkai gojju, kumbalakai huLi, etc… may also be there? Delicious recipes!

All things Mysore are my favourites and I carry much memory from the past which give me some good nostalgic moments – I enjoy reminiscing those good days and I also have tried to put as many as possible in one place here: http://mysoreanmusings.blogspot.com/

I wish you could post many vintage pictures of that era (hope they are preserved) like the one of your grandparents. What I did to all our old pictures that were in photoframes from the past (1920s >) was to ‘deframe’ them and wherever possible, they were dismounted from their cardboard mounts carefully and lo, a vintage album appeared!! But not without effort. Frames were then given away and some suitable glasses were replaced to broken window or almirah panes in our old house!

How I wish I knew my grandmother’s recipes. She always won a prize in the Dasara cooking contests from 1930s onwards!

An old colleague of mine used to ask the expansion of WIFE. Worries Invited For Ever, he would say. LOL. Your web title reminded me of that. Nice web title and explanation to go with it.

Best wishes.
Nirupama Sriram, on September 24th, 2009 at 9:00 am Said:

Namaskara Dinakar avarige,
Wow! your response is so overwhelming and coming from a Mysorean means a lot to me. Thank you so much.

Yes, most of the Mysore recipes can be found in the website along with authentic North Karnataka recipes as my mother is from Hubli and Udupi recipes as my husband is from Udupi and many many others, which I keep experimenting in my kitchen lab. And I would have loved to try out your grandmother’s recipes.

Every single photograph of yesteryear is preserved at home and I have made an album starting from my great grandparents to the current generation by scanning the old photographs. I recently found an old dasara procession photograph and my grandfather’s amateur club photo, which I will post asap.

Your blog is extremely interesting and I will be visiting often for a dose of Mysore tales and woes.

Regards,
Nirupama
Dinakar, on September 24th, 2009 at 9:41 pm Said:

The first half of the above set is a repetition to this which I uploaded just now on Picasa, here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/dinakar58/MysoreVintageSigned?authkey=Gv1sRgCJHPx_i58r36Qw&feat=directlink

Nirupama avarige namaskaaragalu.

Thanks for the prompt response. My grandmother was famous for Badanekai Yennegai, Muchore, Halkhova Obbattu, BeLe Saaru, Eerulli-Aaloogedde Huli (rarity – onions were taboo and a separate IligemaNe for that!)… I should say “et cetera”! She left us in 1978. Perhaps you or your parents may be knowing my grandparents. The album links could provide some clues!!

Today, I went on a ‘heritage walk’ (took leave/holiday from office). Some pictures of my route: http://picasaweb.google.com/dinakar58/DasaraHeritageWalk?feat=directlink

Dasara has become so gaudy! Gaudy decorations! Very cheap!

You have used a word ‘ambivert’ in your web page. Am I one too?

There are many posts and links in my blog which also might interest you.

Best wishes and regards.
Nirupama Sriram, on September 25th, 2009 at 11:10 am Said:

Hi Dinakar,
The old photographs are a treat. Thanks for sharing.

I was in Mysore too during the first 3 days of Dasara and was shocked to see tourists clambering on to the pedestal of Chamaraja Circle and taking pictures. The rains also played a spoil sport like every year. Nonetheless I am always carried away by the enthusiasm of the people and feel proud to be part of the celebrations.

I just hope Mysore does not become an eye sore.

Yummy! Halkova obbattu, never heard or tasted it…..I can imagine how rich and tasty it must have been. And yes, after a one month past the petition requesting for erulli alugadde huli from me would be granted along with sandige happala and on that day separate saaru would be prepared for my grandparents.

Ha ha ha….true you are an ambivert too!
Happy Dasara,
Nirupama
Dinakar, on September 25th, 2009 at 12:33 pm Said:

Wow, again prompt reply.

Having seen the Dasara and people of yore, I have become a critic of present day Dasara (I simply cannot accept certain things though I try to be a bit flexible).

People have no respect or value for public and heritage objects. The vandals just don’t care — they are all from outside, you know! Tell me how many “Mysoreans” are in Mysore! How can we expect them (who came in recent years to this city) to love the city? Don’t you agree? A small number of us frown and shout to satisfy ourselves, but it has no effect overall, also at a time when the general public thinks ‘noise’ is melody! Lookl at those fans thronging to their ‘heroes’ singing on stage with 10,000 watt speakers on! Yuva Dasara! Beauty of Dasara is something else, don’t you think so?

Yes, I forgot Sandige prepared by her that always went with E/A huLi….. sometimes we had that dinner under moonlight. Kai tuttu, was a pleasure, sitting in circle, palms stretched for a morsel! The pungency of onions also have reduced drastically and no one ‘cries’ as they did, say 25-40 years ago.

HuruLi HappaLa was also made at home. PeNi. Slurp.

For Ayudya Pooja, these KSRTC buses get decorated with hoovina haara and BaLe Kandus… in recent years, another gaudy thing — they play cheap film music with blaring loud speakers tied to them while roaming on its route! I cannot imagine such horrific things in Mysore! I wonder who allows them to these extents?

Glad you are away (wherever you are).

With every good wish.
Nirupama Sriram, on September 28th, 2009 at 7:19 pm Said:

Dinakar, I live in Bangalore, so I find Mysore always a peaceful place to unwind albeit many aspects of the city changing for the worse. Instead of spending time in Mysore city itself, during our visits we explore places of interest within a radius of 100kms, which includes historical sites, wildlife sanctuaries, bird sanctuaries, rivers and waterfalls. Not many Mysoreans are even aware that they are living in a place surrounded by unsurpassed natural beauty and there is a need to know, conserve and preserve such treasures.
Nirupama
Dinakar, on October 17th, 2009 at 11:56 am Said:

There was an article in a supplement in Deccan Herald in the last ten days. It was about Masala Dosa. Somehow it has gone out of our pile for something else and I’m unable to find it. Please do look for it because the writer has mentioned a few interesting points about it including its mention in old epics. Make a search. I reckon it may be useful.

Deepavali greetings. Hope there is less smoke and sound this time, a time when there are thousands suffering due to flood havoc.

Dinakar
Nirupama Sriram, on October 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm Said:

Deepavali Greetings to you too Dinakar. The article in Deccan Herald must have been interesting….please access the following link to browse through Deccan Herald epaper http://deccanheraldepaper.com. You can also read through their archives.
Dinakar, on October 19th, 2009 at 10:33 pm Said:

I tried the e-search also before I posted above, but I could not locate it. The e-paper has only the last 10 days’ editions.
food recipes, on November 19th, 2009 at 12:30 pm Said:

all food recipes are very interesting
kaqlpana, on December 15th, 2009 at 5:52 pm Said:

Hi nirupama
I just bumped into ur wonderful site today. Amazing work. Left India and Mysore in1991, really miss Mysore, maharanis college, Christ The king convent and manasa Gangotri.My friends. kalidasa Road, Ambode, vade, road side gadi puri etc etc…….
Your knowledge of plants and gardening is really good. We do find quite a few rare species of flora and fauna here in Johannesburg. I shall definitely try to post them.

kalpana
Nirupama Sriram, on December 15th, 2009 at 7:12 pm Said:

Dear Kalpana,
Thank you for your lovely comments and it is nice to meet another Mysorean in the cyber world.

Do you blog too?? I would love to see the pictures of the flora and fauna in Johannesburg. Please let me know the URL.

Happy New Year!
Nirupama
Dinakar, on December 20th, 2009 at 8:41 am Said:

Hello Kalpana,

http://ckcdays.blogspot.com/

The above is the URL of my exclusive blog on my schooldays. I also studied at CKC. Scrolling down for older posts there will take you to my memories at CKC. Hope that rings many bells to you!

Best.
Dinakar
G.Prasanna, on February 2nd, 2010 at 5:09 pm Said:

Dear Nirupama

First off all i personal congrats of opening this website. Your website content is very impress and wonderful. Your way of writing the article is excellent. Keep writing. I want to use your website content in my website with your name below.

Kindly give me Permission

Prasanna
admin, on February 13th, 2010 at 5:04 pm Said:

Prasanna,

Thank you for your appreciation.

Unfortunately this site is copyrighted and therefore the content cannot be used on any other site. Kindly do not upload any of the content from itslife.in on your site.

Nirupama Sriram
soniya thakkar, on February 23rd, 2010 at 9:29 pm Said:

hello Nirupama, i am sonia here did u recognise me if yes, answer me. itslife is a wonderful site Nirupama congrats for what u are doing.
Nirupama Sriram, on February 24th, 2010 at 8:14 am Said:

Dear Sonia,
Thanks for appreciating. Of course I remember you. I cannot forget the great days we spent at Avila Convent.

Do keep visiting and give your valuable inputs.
Regards,
Nirupama

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