Help !!!! I suck at my mother tongue September 1, 2008
Posted by 6mile in Uncategorized.Tags: telugu, Tinglish
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Yes, I do. 
. I’ve decided to skip my more controversial post and put this mew one up.
Growing up as an army brat. I spent most years of my life all around. As a result I am reasonably good in English and Hindi. But ended, pretty bad at my mother tongue, Telugu. My mom and dad have tried they’re best to bestow a sense of cultural belongingness in me and have done a pretty good job. We spoke a lot of Tinglish at my place ( Telugu + English) and my language tends to slant the more respectful and puritan side. However, I cannot read and write, and I never picked up number’s, lol. On top of all this, my vocabulary is tiny compared to most native speakers. Add to that, my inability to grasp most slang. And I end up a bafoon, hehe.
Most people think ,I’m an alien who picked up they’re language. I run across so many people who try to keep correct my grammatic mistake’s. I’m like I cant help it dammit and they still keep at it uhhhh !, My worst fear is I’ll be married to an Andhra girl who will keep correcting me 
. Maybe , subconsciously It is the main reasons , I’m open to an Inter Cultural relationship. I will get to tread a new path of my own. 
Ugadi April 12, 2008
Posted by 6mile in Uncategorized.Tags: culture, festival, food, new year, telugu, tradition, ugadi
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Ugadi roughly translates to , Uga – era and Adi – new. The start of a new era.
Today we celebrated the Telugu New Year . Telugu people follow the lunisolar calender, so it gets kind of tough to keep track of such days
Ugadi is one of the few days people still wear traditional clothes girls wearing langa voni’s and guys wearing panchs or kurtas. The thing I like about Ugadi the most it super delicious food you only get in an Andhra household. Delicious Lemon rice, Yogurt dipped Wada’s, Sweet Kheer.
It is also the only day Ugadi Pachadi (umm.. new year pickle) is served. Me thinks , I cant explain it better than wikipedia 
The eating of a specific mixture of ;
- Neem Buds/Flowers for bitterness
- Raw Mango for tang
- Tamarind Juice for sourness
- Green Chilli/Pepper for heat
- Jaggery for sweetness
- Pinch of Salt for saltiness
This mixture with all six tastes (షడ్రుచులు), called “Ugadi Pachhadi” (ఉగాది పచ్చడి) in Telugu and “Bevu-Bella”( ಬೇವು-ಬೆಲ್ಲ ) in Kannada[1], symbolizes the fact that life is a mixture of different experiences (sadness, happiness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise) , which should be accepted together and with equanimity.
