Celebrate Mango Season

One of April's greatest highlights is the fact that mango season has finally arrived. The precious summer months are the only time of the year when the king of fruits can be savoured in desserts, pickles and even in a glass. To enjoy mango in new form, give these three delicious drinks a try at home and say cheers to everyone's favourite fruit.

1. Mango Lemonade

If the only types of lemonade you've tried were pink and citrusy, you're in for a treat. This refreshing drink brings together two delightful fruits in a mix of Caribbean flavours.

Ingredients:

Two cups chopped mango chunks

Half cup lemon juice

Three fourth cup sugar

Two cups cold water

Method:

In a saucepan, mix the sugar and cold water on a slow flame. Stir until the sugar has dissolved, remove from stove and leave aside to cool completely. Next, make a puree of the chopped mangoes in a blender and pour it into a pitcher. Then add the lemon juice to the pitcher and stir well. Next add the sugar syrup, few spoons at the time to adjust your level of sweetness. Finally, top off with ice cubes and serve.

2. Mango Colada

The delectable coconut favourite gets a tropical twist when you add the king of fruits to the mix.

Ingredients:

Half cup mango juice

Half cup chopped mango

Quarter cup coconut milk

One tablespoon lime juice

Half cup ice cubes

Method:

Add the mango chunks in a blender and mix until it is a smooth puree. Then add coconut milk, lime juice and mango juice and blend until combined. Finally add the ice crushes and blend once again until it is an icy mix. Serve in a tall glass with more ice cubes if needed.

3. Mango Fizz

This mango drink stands out from the rest with its unique taste and refreshing fizz.

Ingredients:

Half cup ginger ale

Handful of mint leaves

Quarter cup mango puree

Two tablespoons lime juice

Two tablespoons sugar syrup (as prepared in first recipe)

Half cup ice cubes

Method:

In a pitcher, mix mango puree with sugar syrup and adjust syrup based on how sweet you want it. Add ginger ale to the pitcher, top it with mint and give it a thorough stirring so that it mixes well. Serve in a glass with a sprig of mint.

First eye ball Tattoo in India

Delhi-based 28-year-old Karan has become the first Indian to get his eyeballs tattooed.

Karan, a full-time professional tattoo artist and piercer, claims that it does not involve risks and is just a way to look and feel different, first reported by DNA.

Eyeball tattoos are a relatively new extreme body modification where needles inject ink into the whites of a person's eyes to permanently dye it a different colour. 

According to the report, Karan has lost count of the number of tattoos he has on his own body.

"At the moment, I have uncountable tattoos and 22 piercings on me," Karan told , adding his full body suit of tattoos is a work in progress. "Eventually, I will just have one tattoo: head to finger and toe tips."

On being asked on why he wanted to get this done, he told DNA: “I always wanted to get something like this done and thus made sure that I get it done from the person who invented eyeball tattooing a decade back — Howard Smith. Because as a tattoo artist, my eyes are very important to me.”

According to Karan, he was 13 when he got his first tattoo. At 16, he started tattooing as a hobby and soon, opened up his own tattoo studio in Delhi.

He told  that six months after beginning his full body suit, the tattoo artist began to wonder what he would look like if he had his eyeballs tattooed. He said he spent months debating whether to opt for the permanent procedure and discussed it with his family and friends.

The procedure, which cost lakhs, was done by an Australian tattoo artist, who Karan claims invented eyeball tattooing, at a tattoo studio in New York, US.

But the medical fraternity isn’t impressed with this act. “In all my career, I have never heard of anything like this. I did not even know that something like this exists and that people are crazy enough to get it done. I cannot really comment on the risks involved,” Dr Atul Kumar, head of ophthalmology department, AIIMS, told DNA.

Meanwhile, Melbourne-based tattoo artist Luna Cobra, who pioneered eyeball tattooing, has supported calls from a leading medical body to ban the eye-watering procedure in Australia and New Zealand after rampant malpractice.

The Melbourne-based practitioner, who has tattooed the eyes of hundreds of clients worldwide, told The New Daily he backed the calls by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists.

The high-risk procedure involves permanently changing the colour of the white part of the eye or sclera using coloured dye that can lead to infection, intense pain and permanent vision loss.