How to improve gut health !!

 

This is shared by an Indian doctor !! 

Basic funda is to eat atleast 30 different plant products every week. This is very much possible if you eat 4-6 different curries /dal in a week with our Indian diet. 

January 2024 recommendations

 

I decided to list down the things i liked and would like to recommend to others. It may be podcast, youtube videos, Movies , Songs and writeups. 

Movies : 

I had some good free time this month due to holidays and less work. I liked Salaar,Irugupatru, Hi Nanna, Mission Impossible Dead reckoning,  How is it for a Monday(Telugu- English) , Awe (Telugu). 

In Salaar, Prabhas got one of the best role for him which utilizes his cutout (i like how he is named that too in that movie for a while :P ) and the Kateramma fight was brilliantly executed , the high of Shreya Reddy shouting on top of her lungs screaming "Salaar Devaratha Raisaar" are some peak points, for me and Prashant Neel is probably the best SSR school topper now in India .

Irugupatru deals with married couples , so may be not everyones cup of tea but i liked how simplistic the topic was dealt. Hi Nanna, kudos to Nani for doing it and director Shoryuv for ensuring an emotional movie had enough high points to be hooked to . I watched Mission Impossible so that its checked off my the list and it was fun and as expected. 

One movie which i liked how a acquintance of mine , Sripal Sama executed and made such a wonderful film called " How is it for a Monday" , intertwining Telugu customs , Telugu NRIs and a very very good message . I even tried to nod like Kaushik ghantasala in that "Nenu Nasagaadina " scene quite a few times. 

Awe was another movie wanted to watch since long time and i now understand why it was so highly critically rated . Brilliantly made right from start to end with enough cues to keep hooked and some loose ends too. 

Music :

I am now hooked to Guntur Kaaram (Dum Masala, Mawa enthaina) and Hi Nanna albums . 

Podcast: 

Iam now commuting to office more due to new rules and have more time to finish pending podcast episodes. 

My favorite Telugu podcast "harivillu" by Nag Vasireddy where he is back with a review of 2023 movies with guest Yaswant Aluru. I am mind blown by the analysis and thoughts of Yaswanth and out of those 23 movies discussed, i had similar thoughts about 20 movies. 

I am a fan of Amit Varma podcast and i finished the KP Krishnan's one (probably the longest one i heard till now ) which is just great for anyone to understand the inner workings of a govt servant. Another one of India's pension crisis where as usual Ajay Shah keeps you hooked on to the subject. Another one with Pritika Hingaroni on citi planning . Lately, i think iam getting more interesting in cities planning and public safety. 

I heard couple of episodes from Ideas of India by Sruthi Rajagopalan , the year 2023 in review, Rahul sagar on hidden 19th century India  ( where he discusses some interesting things about how Indian monarchs did public policy in British Raj and lot more on Madhav Rao, the Diwan of Travancore ) and listened to a bit of Alain Bertaud episode too where he discusses some interesting points of city planning) . 

As usual , i finished Decoding Democracy episodes as soon as they are out. This is a treasure for every folk out there interested to public policy. Available on Spotify and Amazon too .

And finished all pending episodes of Morgan Housel podcast. I do think i am reading the book at free of cost.

I noticed that my org has now tied up with linkedin learning and also has some good book summaries available. 

On Youtube, i started watching Eco India series by scroll Link  . I do think we are getting over scared on Climate Crisis and doing so less on mitigation front. And Along with Waning Antibiotic resistance and Plastics, Climate Crisis will change lives so soon that when it hits the fan, we will be in a pandemic . 

I was so much fascinated by credit card and became a junkie recently that i started exploring credit cards for no particular reason, more on that later. 

Paytm payments bank going down has impacted me a lot and currently in mitigation efforts. 

I ordered a new fastag from ICICI and it arrived . 

I changed my UPI credit card linkage to Phonepe ( It already gave me decent cashback for this linkage than paytm ever gave me ). 

I am in process of changing my mutual fund auto pay mandates to my ICICI account . 

I am now looking for a digital account and if you have any suggestions, please do let me know. As of now, i am looking at Kotak 811(suggested by a friend) and Jupiter app ( Federal bank- i liked the jupiter app and their philosophy)  

Streaming movies recommendations - January 2022

 

This is a list of movies i watched or added to my watch list in this month of January 2022. 

Telugu :

Akhanda - Hotstar : Pakka Telugu masala Balayya movie. If you are familiar with Balayya , i dont need to tell you anything about this movie. This is a feast for a fan, tolerable for a regular moviegoer and overall a good family movie if you have aged people watching Telugu masala movies. 

ShyamSingaRoy - Netflix :  Nani makes a comeback . Sai Pallavi's best role so far. Good story for a family watch. 

Minnal Murali - Netflix : Loved this superhero movie set in a village. Like the way the story was groomed into a superhero format. 

Others which i added to my watch list are :

BroDaddy - Hotstar ( Malayalam ) 

Republic - Zee5 (Telugu)

Mandela - Netlfix ( Tamil)

Skylab - SonyLiv (Telugu) 

Telugu podcast for Kids

  This blog lists some interesting things i come across and are my recommendations.

If you are looking for a nice podcast to tell bedtime stories for Kids in Telugu , here it is 

"Anaganaga".

Every Sunday an episode releases

Links :

Anchor FM:

https://anchor.fm/anudeepgv

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5muefHGei5EpLw09EjxVZ2

Google Podcast:

https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xZThhYTliYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==

Apple podcast :

https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/anaganaga/id1510836257

An English Movie must watch for everyone

 

 If there is one English movie, which is a must watch for everyone, it has to be 12 Angry Men.

The legal link to watch it is :

https://ia800902.us.archive.org/5/items/12AngryMen1957/12%20Angry%20Men%20(1957).mp4

From Wiki :

12 Angry Men explores many techniques of consensus-building and the difficulties encountered in the process among this group of men whose range of personalities adds to the intensity and conflict. It also explores the power one person has to elicit change. The jury members are identified only by number; no names are revealed until an exchange of dialogue at the very end. The film forces the characters and audience to evaluate their own self-image through observing the personality, experiences, and actions of the jurors.

Minnal Murali Review

Minnal Murali is one movie i loved watching every moment of its runtime. It is available in Telugu on Netflix which made my viewing experience a lot better as i dont need to spend mindspace in reading the subtitles. 

First of all, i am proud of my Malayalam brothers and sisters that they are able to churn out such great scripts to the movie viewers. Stories like Drushyam 1 & 2 , Driving License , Ustaad Hotel, Minnal Murali are such a joy to watch it on screen. And coming to this film, i particularly like the way they took time to get the hero and villain story arcs in proper organic growth . The music was fabulous to augment the pace of the movie . 

I was super curious when i heard about this super hero film and my mind was wandering on how he became a superhero. We cannot show that he got some powers from an animal or an alien or he is super rich like our existing super heroes. I loved the trailer when i saw and was very intrigued to see the Thunderstorm angle . What blew my mind was the villain part of it and how they were able to make story with regular human touch in a village setting , ultimately bringing us to the hero super hero and Villain super hero to a faceoff towards the climax. 

I am now an fan of Tovino Thomas , loved his part in Lucifer and now this movie.