FORGOTTEN INDIAN GAMES--PALANGGULI

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Palangguli is one of the famous games played by womens in Tamilnadu . Hope , each and every house will have this board . I have it in silver , gifted by my mom during my marriage .It is in my in-laws place ,so I cannot take a photo of my own .

Rules of the game :

1) It is a two player game . Each one will take 7 cups each .
2)Each cup will have 6 seeds . Usually , we will play with tamarind seeds .
3) Firstplayer have to lift the seeds from any of her cups and distribute the seeds one by one in each cup, starting from the cup rightside to the cup from she took the seeds.
4) Once the six seeds over , she takes seeds from the next cup immediately after that cup and repeat step 3 . If she reaches the end of her cups, she need to drop seeds in her opponent player's cups.

5) She has to drop the seeds until the last seed fell into a cup with an empty cup beyond. Once it had occured , she can take the seeds in the cup beyond the empty cup and store it for her.

6) Then the second player starts to play in the same way .

7) If for any one of the players , when the last seed fell into a cup with two empty cups beyond, they never takes seeds and their turn is over.

8) The first round is over when there are no seeds .

9) Players have to fill their cups with the seeds they earned .Player with more seeds is declared the winner. The loser of the first round will be unable to fill all of his holes.

10) In the next round play continues as before without considering the empty holes .

11) The game is over when a player doesn't fill any of his cups with 6 seeds .

Sending this to Nivedita's Forgotten indian games .

FORGOTTEN INDIAN GAMES

CHOTANGKALLU (GAME WITH STONES)

This is one of the games played mostly in south indian villages .

This game is played with 6 stones . All you have to do is to

1) Throw one stone first , tap the ground and catch it with the same hand .

2) Hold it it hand , repeat step 1 again . Catch the second stone with the right hand holding the first catched one.

3) Repeat the above steps for all the 6 stones .

4) Person catching all the 6 stones without a sinlge drop is the winner.

Sending this to Nivedita's Forgotten indian games .

LORD GANESH

SPARROW CRAFTS EVENT'10

March 20 is celebrated as World Sparrow day . An enjoyable event to celebrate this day .


RULES :

1) Do crafts related to sparrow like pencil sketching , painting , paper crafts , toys , embroidery , poem etc......

2) Post it in your blog with a link back to the event .

3) Send your crafts to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com before April 17 , 2010 .Please send the following details :

a) Name
b) Craft Name
c) Link
d) Photo
e) Type of craft

4) Please use the logo . Entries from older posts and multiple entries are allowed .

Enjoy and have more fun .

CHRISTMAS CRAFTS EVENT ROUNDUP

Hai Friends ,

Sorry for the late posting of this roundup . Here are the cute crafts .

Esther's :

Santa Mask
DIY Nativity Scene
Santa Claus
Butterfly Ornament




Ramya's Teddy on Moon :

and my crafts

Fairy


Christmas Tree Decoration

A WEEKEND TRIP TO ANATHAGIRI - PADMANABHA SWAMY TEMPLE

Sri Anantha Padmanaba Swamy is located on Ananthagiri hills which is 75 km from Hyderabad.It is a lovely temple to visit . It is a very old temple in which swamy idol is different from the usual balaji statue . Lord vishnu is in the form of Sri Anantha Padmanaba Swamy.
This temple have an underground way to Kasi . This temple was installed by Rishi Markandeya .
The main temple was built by hyderabad nawab . To know more about the temple CLICK HERE.

We had a weekend trip to this temple . It was a wonderful drive through the forest of Ananthagiri Hills . A must place to visit .

Front View of the temple , with huge statues of Lord Anjaneya and Lord Garuda .


This huge tomb is used to lit lights during festivals . They will place lights in each stone .



Very old ganesh idol in the entrance .


Lord Shiva(Lingam ) in the temple .



Statue of Nandi in the front of lingam shrine.



A stand to lit lamp in front of it .


Some forts in the hills ,




Fishes in the pond ,






Sending this to Jagurti's Joy of Cooking while travelling .

SAVE OUR TIGERS

The major campaign that hit the headlines and all the screens in India is 'SAVE OUR TIGERS . Tiger is our national animal . It is a sad fact to know that there are only 1411 tigers left . They are nearing extinction . It is our responsibility to save them . What are we going to do to save them ?. How are we going to protect them ? .We can go do a small help . We , the bloggers , can be a small part of this awareness campaign regarding this issue.We can spread this information all over the world .We can post this issue in our blog , try in all ways to communicate this major issue to everyone .Each and every small word regarding this will help the tigers .Let us all join hands to 'Save our Tigers .

This is only of the click we took in Nehru Zoological park , Hyderabad , March 2009 :



You can have more information regarding this in www.saveourtigers.com and http://www.elvidge.com/users/jimbo/tigers/news.htm. We celebrate our Earth Day on April 22 . We can take resolution to plant trees every year on this day with our friends , family members and neighbours . We can plant trees in our nearby parks .I appreciate all the playschools for celebrating Earth and Nature's Day to educate the Children about the values of nature . Act soon , let us all hope for the best .

'SAVE OUR TIGERS' , HELP THEM .