Kukatpally Lake @ Kukatpally

Kukatpally Lake--the shores of the beautiful lake, which is an asset to the Kukatpally and one can have deep breath over here. Kukatpally which is always packed with traffic and really people are very irritated with the traffic over here. Lake which is near pragathinagar is marked as Kukatpally Lake which is in greater Hyderabad

checkout the snaps which are taken over here:

Chadalavada Umesh Chandra

Umesh Chandra was undoubtedly the most reputed police officer in the history of Andhra Pradesh police. He was loved by the people and the police where ever he worked. He was severe on antisocial elements and was very affectionate to the people. He created tremors in the backbones of the naxalites and factionists by showing them, what police are capable of. In his tenure as SP of Cuddapah district, which was considered as second most troublesome district in India, he restored normal conditions within no time, with his extraordinary abilities. He was called cuddapah tiger by the people of Cuddapah.

High notes of a short, but, illustrious career:

• Umesh Chandra raised the standards of policing and administration for his fellow officers to emulate. He provided a strict, yet fair administration. He turned around the negative image the police had in the peoples minds.
• Umesh Chandra was bold and daring in dealing with the naxalites. He relentlessly pursued the apprehension of extremists, naxalites and other anti-social elements. He planned and led all counter-terrorist operations himself.
• Umesh Chandra was a exemplary police officer who maintained a very high degree of honesty, integrity and professionalism. Umesh Chandra set a very high standard for himself and encouraged his fellow police officers to attain and excel these standards. The Vedic scriptures say that a saint's words follow his actions. This was very true of Umesh Chandra.
• Umesh Chandra raised the morale of the police force where ever he went. He instilled a sense of pride and confidence in the police.
• Umesh Chandra truly cared about the fellow human being. His humane nature made him an instant favorite of the common man. He did not limit himself to police work alone. He immersed himself in truly solving the real problems faced by the people.
• Umesh Chandra was adored like God by both the common man and the police in all the districts he worked. Umesh Chandra evoked a great sense of loyalty and admiration of the police force as well as the common man.
• Umesh Chandra looked after the well-being of all police officials working with him. He helped police families in times of need and supported them when police personnel were injured.
• Election time usually is marked by violence leading to murder and mayhem. In all the districts Umesh Chandra served, election time violence became a thing of the past.

Cops to patrol soft target spots

In its fight against terror elements, the Hyderabad police has decided to add one more task to the "job chart" of 60 police stations in the city commissionerate limits: monitoring on foot the movement of suspects and strangers. City police commissioner Balwinder Singh has issued orders directing that all station house officers should focus on the security aspects in "soft target areas" like small eateries, parks and road-side bandis. So far the police had been concentrating on "hard target areas" like VVIP zones, scientific institutions, big malls and cinema theatres.

The city police has shifted the security strategy to concentrate more on soft target areas in view of the recent bomb blasts at places, which security experts never thought of being the target of cross-border terrorists. According to police sources, the city police map will be re-drawn to mark the areas in two different colours. While one colour indicates hard targets the other demarcates the soft target areas.

The police will now have to concentrate on both. As many as 380 "foot patrol" teams have been set up to keep a watchful eye on terror suspects and strangers in respective police station limits. It is the duty of these teams to ensure that no untoward incident takes places in their allotted areas. The city police has also decided to send teams to Mumbai and Delhi for specialised training in handling terror situations and thwarting terror attacks though increased vigilance and intelligence.

"Hyderabad has become the third city in the country for terror targets, after Mumbai and Delhi. To begin with we will send a team of 20 police personnel to these cities for specialised training. On return, they in turn will train the local personnel," a senior police official told this correspondent.

Dahi Handi ( Human Towers ) Celebrations In Hyderabad

After Krishna Ashtami we will be having celebration all over the India and those celebrations are known as "Dahi Handi". So we have to wait how far the Dahi celebrations we will be celebrated in Hyderabad. The doubt behind the scene is due to bomb blasts in hyderabad and will the public like to celebrate it freely or else will they cancel the dahi. Lets wait and see..........

Check out some dahi celebrations occured last year...

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna ..Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Because of his great Godly power, Lord Krishna is another of the most commonly worshipped deities in the Hindu faith. He is considered to be the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu. Shree Krishna delivered Bhagwad Gita on battlefield to Arjun.

He, like Lord Rama, is also known for his bravery in destroying evil powers throughout his life. The Lord is usually depicted as playing the flute (murali), indicating spread of the melody of love to people.

He is also shown with his childhood devotee Radha. The Lord is usually remembered and worshipped as Radha-Krishna. The pair symbolizes the eternal love between people and god.

Lord Krishna is also shown with his pet cow, his childhood favorite. Lord Krishna performed many divine sports (leela) as a child.

This incarnation of Lord Vishnu is probably the most important of the ten. It has accumulated a great variety of myths with the result that, as well as being a human incarnation, Krishna shows all the aspects of human development usually associated with childhood, adolescence, adulthood, etc.

There are few stages in a mortal worshipper's life, or objects of his aspiration, for which a counterpart cannot be found somewhere in the stories relating the activies of Krishna. It is this almost universal appeal that is responsible for his wide popularity and the deep impression he has made on Indian life.

This reputation was only achieved gradually. As with other incarnations he began unobtrusively in the ancient texts but showed an almost organic tendency to develop that was, possibly, only equaled by the rest of the Vishnu legends together.

Although many of the stories about him concern his super-human deeds he also revealed a marked human capacity for drinking, fighting and amorous escapades. Most of these are found in the Mahabharata, especially in its later interpolation the Bhagavad-Gita which is almost entirely devoted to him, and the Bhagavata-Purana.

Perhaps the most popular of these stories are about his skill as a flute- player, illustrated by the image which (as is often the case) lacks its flute. This adds considerably to the pastoral character of many of the Krishna stories and, at the same time, its music and shape and the effect it has on the girl cowherds (gopis) provide a rich source of speculation on its symbolism.

On bearing the music of Krishna's flute, pea- cocks dance and other animals stand still and worship him with their glances, celestial maidens flying in their aerial cars above the earth become infatuated with him and shower him with flowers, rivers become smooth- running and offer him lotuses, and in the beat of the day clouds let fall on him their cooling rain.

Bharata was an ancient king whose achievements are celebrated in the Mahabharata and from whose name derives one of the names for modern India, that is Bharat. During the final battle, Krishna serves as charioteer for the hero Arjuna, and before the fighting starts he bolsters Arjuna's faltering will to fight against his kin.

Krishna reveals himself as Vishnu, the supreme godhead, who has set up the entire conflict to cleanse the earth of evildoers according to his inscrutable will. This section of the epic, the Bhagavad Gita , or Song of the Lord, is one of the great jewels of world religious literature and of central importance in modern Hinduism.

One of its main themes is karma-yoga , or selfless discipline in offering all of one's allotted tasks in life as a devotion to God and without attachment to consequences. The true reality is the soul that neither slays nor is slain and that can rejoin God through selfless dedication and through Krishna's saving grace.

A completely different cycle of stories portrays Krishna as a young cowherd, growing up in the country after he was saved from an evil uncle who coveted his kingdom. In this incarnation, Krishna often appears as a happy, roly-poly infant, well known for his pranks and thefts of butter.

Although his enemies send evil agents to destroy him, the baby miraculously survives their attacks and kills his demonic assailants. Later, as he grows into an adolescent, he continues to perform miracles such as saving the cowherds and their flocks from a dangerous storm by holding up a mountain over their heads until the weather clears.

His most striking exploits, however, are his affairs as a young adult with the gopis(cowherding maidens), all of whom are in love with him because of his good looks and talent with the flute.

These explicitly sexual activities, including stealing the clothes of the maidens while they are bathing, are the basis for a wide range of poetry and songs to Krishna as a lover; the devotee of the god takes on a female role and directs toward the beloved lord the heartfelt longing for union with the divine.

Krishna's relationship with Radha, his favorite among the gopis , has served as a model for male and female love in a variety of art forms, and since the sixteenth century appears prominently as a motif in North Indian paintings.

Unlike many other deities, who are depicted as very fair in color, Krishna appears in all these adventures as a dark lord, either black or blue in color. In this sense, he is a figure who constantly overturns accepted conventions of order, hierarchy, and propriety, and introduces a playful and mischievous aspect of a god who hides from his worshipers but saves them in the end.

The festival of Holi at the spring equinox, in which people of all backgrounds play in the streets and squirt each other with colored water, is associated with Krishna.