If Haridwar is in your mind then the view of a sacred place like an Ashram where gain of spiritual knowledge and vedic Indian culture is a serious subject of interest. I would like to give sufficient details of the Haridwar Ashram for your knowledge and better guidance. Here the topic starts:
JAIRAM ASHRAM:
Jairam Ashram is considered to be one of the best spiritual place to visit in Haridwar.In every year thousands of domestic and international visitors comes to this prime place of attraction at Haridwar. The Jairam Ashram is well managed by the trustee board. It has very good accommodation facilities as well as spiritual knowledge enhancement aids which attracts a substantial volume of tourist to visit and stay in this holy place. The city of Haridwar itself is a major Hindu pilgrimage located in the quaint and serene hill Gadwal in the state of Uttranchal. Besides this, this place has worldwide reputation as the festival of the world-renowned Kumbh Mela takes place in Haridwar. From Gangesand the to the anciently glorious Har-ki-Puri temples and the Hindu ashrams, Haridwar is rich with many great religious and natural relics.
The Jairam Ashram comes among on of the renowned locations of Haridwar where visitors from the Indian states and across many countries of the world comes in for traveling and pilgrimage purpose. The mythological architecture and its raptures are well witnessed in sculptures of this Ashram. There is no doubt in the saying, Jairam Ashram depicts a magnificent heritage of the religious glory of Haridwar and the ancient India. The ashrams in Haridwar are the flags of the Sanatan Indian vedic age and culture this Ashram is a true gesture of everything we say about the holy place.
It’s the stream of water that keeps us alive in every moment. One-fifth weight weigh of our body is formed by water in various forms. The life-flow of the human being, the plants, and the other creatures is completely depends on water. Water the quintessential element for all of us and for the birds....!!
Being the superior creature on the earth, human can somehow manage to source out streams of water during adverse living condition like being relocated to the miles long expanded lands of sands or during a prolonged season of acute drought across the regions. Here the topic is about water supply to the birds during summertime or drought. Do you know, how helpless those colorful flying creature….many of the birds dies in the summer month’s just lack of water.
The summer of 2010 is riding to its peak and causalities are going to set a new record. The global warming, fast urbanization, and industrial processing units all are contributing very badly and sadly we are going to suffer more and more. The temperature has already crossed 37 degree Celsius. Many birds die due to lack of water. You may save their lives: Place water pots in your house’s terraces, compound wall, and balconies to help the thirsty birds with a regular source of water.
Setting up bird houses is a good effort in saving the bird population from the scorching summer. During the summer month, agricultural production gets hampered because of scanty rainfall and heat wave all over the regions. The birds find it hard to source out sufficient food grains from the baron lands. In summer, a substantial bird population dies due to shortage of food. Though, installation of a bird house at your rooftop may save at least the lives of a few birds but, it’s a generous effort in saving the birds. Keep two pots in your bird house, a pot filled up with water and the other with food grains like wheat, pulses, rice etc. Interestingly, within a few days after setting up the bird house, some birds would settle down and accept it as a regular nest. They happily live in that adobe, plays, and lay eggs. Won’t it be beautiful?
Haridwar, the famous Hindu pilgrimage by the bank of the GangaRiver and located at Gadwal Himalaya has been one of the prime destination for the people searching for eternal spirituality and the god. The visitors to this place are from several countries of the globe. This holy soil of Haridwar always has been shelter to the god devotees and elder people plans for spending rest of the life serving the god and living peacefully by the scared GangaRiver.
But, ordinary visitors like you and me constitutes the majority portion of the number of visitors to Haridwar. It’s located very near to the Indian capital city, New Delhi. One easily reaches here from Delhi by overnight travelling. Haridwar is well connected with all the parts of the country. From Kolkata to Kanyakumari, from Mumbai to Assam all the ideal transportation facilities are available to reach Haridwar.
Reaching at Haridwar, you will get hotels according to your budget. But, keep in mind hotel fare scales to exorbitant in special festival like Depawali, Kumbh Mela etc. Recently, one of my friend and his family member had to visit Haridwar, but they were not aware about the ongoing Kumbh Mela festival. So, they had to book a hotel room at Rs. 3000 (US$75) per day. In normal course, the same hotel could have been rented at Rs. 500 (US$12) per day. If you have a plan to visit this place in the near future, check out the calendar to avoid the rush festive periods.
Haridwar is an ideal Hindu pilgrimage and absolute vegetarianism is practiced throughout this holy place. As millions of devotees and normal tourists visit this place food is a major concern. The perfect Hindu vegetarian dishes prepared in the most hygienic manner are served to the people. Though there are hundreds of small and medium hotels and restaurants, but there are several established hotel/restaurant brands. Most of the pilgrim sites of Haridwar offer pure vegetarian recipes to the tourists. The restaurants in Haridwar are also known to serve authentic vegetarian palates to the pilgrims.
The food offered to the tourists and pilgrims at Haridwar are pure and reflect the sacredness of this god’s place. The god’s temples, ashrams, Ghats, and the other sacred things in combination of the Himalayan nature have turned this place into heavenly place on the earth. Most of the tourists coming to Haridwar are pilgrims who seek the blessing of the gods and during the visits vegetarian dishes are the only choice. More often than not these devotees adhere to strict vegetarian dishes to keep their religious sanctity intact. This is one of the main reasons behind most of the eateries of Haridwar serves pure vegetarian foods to the visitors.
In the fifties there were some hand-picked numbers of hotels and eateries in Haridwar. But, in the recent dec ades, for many influencing factors, the number of visitors to this place is increasing and the hospitality sector also grown very well. In the recent years couple of different variety food restaurants has been set up I Haridwar. They are offering Punjabi food to the Punjabi communities including the north Indian people fond of Punjabi dishes. The visitors from the south Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra have the option chose these restaurants and dine in their own manner. The big restaurants are well prepared with multi-cuisine recipes to the visitors. These food joints are known as food courts. But, irrespective of these food courts Haridwar is well glorious for its very Indian vegetarian delicacies.
Numerous small and big restaurants, food courts are available in Haridwar, but to name a few I must mention Mohan's Fast Food, Ahaar, Bestee, Bridge Mathura Walla and Chotiwala, Motel Rahi's restaurant, DadaBaudirHoteletc. During your visits to this holy place take a taste of Indian pure vegetarian delicacies visiting these popular food corners. I am pretty sure; your experience of dining here will add spiritual satisfaction in your mind.
How do you value a Rs. 20 note or $.5? Is this amount too trivial? Well, it may be to the affluent classes in the metro cities. But, it matters a lot for those who earn Rs. 10,000 or less in a month. You know, in India one kg of potatoes costs Rs. 7.50, one kilogram of raw wheat costs Rs. 15, a kg chicken costs Rs. 120. This topic is all about lunch at your office? What do you expect in a typical lunch package at your office? As mentioned, a handsome salary earner may opt for anything ranging between $10 combo pack of Pizza + Coke or steamed $8 pasta + ice cream, really they have varieties of costly choice where price matters nothing at all. What the average wage earners prefers? Dear reader, it’s wise not to use the term ‘Prefer’. Rather we say at what price an average wage earner bound to buy his or her lunch. Well, most the BPOs in India offer subsidised food to the employees. In such a process the employees really have the chance to enjoy hygienic and quality food. Everything is served like milk, bread, sandwich, banana shake, Indian snacks, rice, chicken curry, cold drink, curd and many more. ‘I really get to eat cool food at my office—Its really great to sit and dine at our office cafeteria’--- says one of my friends works in an internationally reputed BPO with clients from industrial loan, mortgage, credit card, car finance, and house loan sectors. Really these executives are lucky enough. They have almost everything as:
Pick up and drop facilities.
Hygienic food.
Subsidized lunch, dinner, and breakfast.
Weekend refreshment parties.
Now, look at the people who do share a different pattern of office environment and lunch:
But, what about those employees whose employer never offers subsidised breakfast, lunch, and dinner? They need to buy everything at a high price from the office canteen. Of course, the canteen managers do have little sense in satisfying the customers. They purchases third grade vegetables at a throwaway price and cook foods in unhygienic condition. Everyone knows, a canteen owner never trashes the oil once been used for cooking, they just adds some more oil into the existing volume. In several occasions employees discovers worms and cockroaches from their food plates. Moreover at Rs. 20 what is offered at lunch is really pathetic. For your review, to lunch-plate pictures from a well reputed organization has been provided here. What are these food? How these are made? Is clear to the readers from India, but I need to explain everything to the International readers.
I am looking forward to hear your views good and bad experiences about the foods are being served at your office canteen. Here are a few questions for your comments:
• Are you satisfied with the quantity and quality of your office lunch? • Are you happy about the price of your office lunch? • Have you ever discovered worms/cockroaches in your lunch plate bought from the office canteen?
