Suresh Thimiri cooking Guru – Grilled Paneer Cheese with Mango Tomato Chutney and Curry Vinaigrette

Paneer is a fresh, firm and mild-tasting Indian cheese perfect for grilling. Serve with a mango and tomato chutney and a drizzle of curry vinaigrette for a unique twist on the classic Caprese salad.

                                                                                                                Suresh Thimiri cooking Guru

Ingredients

Grilled Paneer

175ml (6fl oz) plain yoghurt

1 tbs lemon juice

2 tsp Schwartz Garam Masala

1 tsp Schwartz Sea Salt Mill

½ tsp Schwartz Garlic Granules

½ tsp Schwartz Ginger Ground

400g (14oz) paneer

Mango Tomato Chutney

½ tsp Schwartz Cumin Seeds

4 plum tomatoes, chopped

1 ripe mango, cut into 1cm chunks

½ onion chopped

2 tsp Schwartz Coriander Leaf

2 tsp honey

½ tsp Schwartz Cinnamon Ground

¼ tsp Schwartz Sea Salt Mill

Curry Vinaigrette

50ml (2fl oz) olive oil

2 tbs white balsamic vinegar

2 tbs Dijon mustard

½ tsp Schwartz Medium Curry Powder

¼ tsp Schwartz Garlic Mill

 

Methods

STEP1

For the paneer combine yoghurt, lemon juice, Garam Masala, Salt, Garlic Granules and Ginger in a small bowl until well blended. Place paneer in a large re-sealable plastic bag, add the yoghurt marinade and turn to coat well, place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

STEP2

Meanwhile, for the Mango Tomato Chutney, toast the Cumin Seeds in a large pan over a medium heat for 1 minute, or until fragrant. Add the tomatoes, mango, onion, Coriander, honey, Cinnamon and Salt. Cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring regularly until the tomatoes soften and the sauce is slightly thickened.

 

STEP3

For the Curry vinaigrette, combine all ingredients in a small bowl with a wire whisk until well blended.

STEP4

After the paneer has marinated, spray a griddle pan with oil and pre-heat to medium. Remove paneer from the marinade, discarding any remaining marinade. Grill paneer for 5-6 minutes, or until lightly browned, turning frequently. Cut into 1cm thick slices, then serve layered with the Mango Tomato Chutney and drizzled with the Curry Vinaigrette.

 

Suresh Thimiri talking about Charles Correa

Charles Correa‘s passing on Tuesday robs India of an influential voice on how to plan a city even as the country proceeds on a path of a pell-mell urbanisation that bears little resemblance to the thoughtful approach he espoused. Correa had an intuitive understanding of how India should urbanise and the buildings it should erect in its cities, grounded in Indian realities.

He argued for high-density city centres and five- to six-storeyed residential buildings. Instead, India has something haphazardly closer to the American model of sprawling cities and suburbs with something of the Indian village thrown in – nowhere more so than in New Delhi – than to the European conception of dense and busy city centres. Both government and business, meanwhile, are guilty of glass skyscrapers, precisely the kind of buildings he argued against in the hot Indian climate. Correa placed an emphasis on buildings with small windows to keep out the heat and rooms that allowed an easy flow of air from one end of the house to the other to maximise the opportunity for cross-ventilation.

Kanchenjunga, the controversial and occasionally derided residential building he designed in Mumbai‘s Malabar Hill, is an example of this. His signature was buildings with a seemingly empty space at the centre, the better to appreciate the earth and the sky – seen both in the Life Insurance Corporation building and the breath-taking British Council building, both in New Delhi.

                                                               Charles Correa

Suresh Thimiri finedthe news on Charles 

Great architects design beautiful buildings the world over, but Correa was much more than that. He was a kind of urban conscience-keeper for India. For starters, he passionately believed in cities, whereas so much of Indian policy-making sees the village as an ideal. Institutionally, India has had a reluctance to engage with urbanization, to the extent that the government closes its eyes to its occurrence, instead of planning and building mass transit decades before roads clog up and allowing higher density buildings, as Correa suggested.

The architect criticized that throughout his working life – as well as the tendency to cash in on over-priced urban land via a nexus between the politician and the builder. He was not proud of the way Navi Mumbai looked aesthetically but it was an important rebuttal to the political-developer combines that have handicapped India’s urbanization.

Correa would argue presciently that even as cities like Mumbai’s physical environment grew more squalid through neglect, paradoxically “every day, it offers more in the way of skills, activities, opportunity on every level, from squatter to college student to entrepreneur”. He was realistic enough to warn against the dangers of a city with so many thousands sleeping on the streets and called for low-cost housing with amenities like parks and public spaces; slums and migrants could not be wished away.

Mumbai, one could argue, was the locus classicus of so many of his ideas and concerns. There was a great opportunity to build the city anew when mill land was redeveloped but this has been mostly squandered, again because of the omnipotence of developers’ lobbies. In an interview a couple of years ago, Correa confessed to being “frustrated” that so little of what he suggested was followed in designing and planning urban India. The government’s commitment to ‘smart cities’ offers us a fresh chance to put into practice Correa‘s forward-looking ideas. A country in the 21st century cannot, at some levels, function if it does not have functioning cities.

Suresh Thimiri listing the CharlesCorrea Awards –

• Royal Gold Medal
• Padma Shri
• Padma Vibhushan
• UIA Gold Medal

Suresh thimiri reviews – ‘Margarita With A Straw’ – Video Dailymotion

Suresh thimiri reviews – ‘Margarita With A Straw’ – Video Dailymotion.

Suresh Thimiri : On Net Neutrality ?

Suresh thimiri is Explaining Net neutrality.

Whats is Net Neutrality?

Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging deferentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.

Suresh thimiri talking about: Airtel Zero

The government has decided to look into Bharti Airtel’s controversial ‘Airtel Zero’ plan, which is seen to be violating net neutrality as it grants preferential treatment for websites that pay for it.

Network neutrality is the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.According to Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, the best way to explain network neutrality is as when designing a network: that a public information network will end up being most useful if all content, sites, and platforms are treated equally.

Debate In India

In recent times, the debate in India about Net Neutrality is heating up with a website doing an online campaign against it, and asking people to get associated.Major newspapers have reported how ‘fight for net neutrality’ has ‘united internet’  During the last few days, more than 200,000 e-mails and online petitions have been sent to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and Union Ministry for Communication and Information Technology ‘to act against the violation of net neutrality by corporate interests’. This online petition is in response to a consultation paper on over-the-top services (OTT) and net neutrality for public feedback released by TRAI.

 

Suresh Thimiri find the  Official Statement From Flipkart:

Flipkart pull out Airtel Zero. Airtel Zero is almost violating net neutrality and we welcome Flipkart’s decision to pull out of the program

We at Flipkart have always strongly believed in the concept of net neutrality, for we exist because of the Internet. Over the past few days, there has been a great amount of debate, both internally and externally, on the topic of zero rating, and we have a deeper understanding of the implications. After reviewing implications of zero rating deeply, we reached the conclusion that it doesn’t meet our standards of net neutrality and violates the principles that we stand for.

Based on this, we have decided on the following:

• We will be walking away from the on going discussions with Airtel for their platform Airtel Zero
• We will be committing ourselves to the larger cause of Net Neutrality in India. We will be internally discussing over the next few days, the details of actions we will take to support the cause
• We will be working towards ensuring that the spirit of net neutrality is upheld and applied equally to all companies in India irrespective of the size or the service being offered and there is absolutely no discrimination whatsoever.