A Durga Puja Pandal in West Bengal, India.

What you are looking at is a Durga Puja pandal in a city of West Bengal in India.  People here invest a lot of time and effort to build this massive structure which looks like a real monument.  The beauty is the art work that you can find in almost every pandals.  Not to mention, the artists are those people who never went to any art college, but are just individuals who came to the city in search of work.  Funding is mostly done by collecting donations from the public and businessmen.  

Why Auctions are not working on eBay India?

Do you know why the online auctions are not working out on eBay India?

When I first started selling on eBay, I selected eBay India's Auction format?  I listed one of my Tintin comics for just Rs. 1/- with free shipping.  It was indeed a very successful auction and it got sold within a week.  That was five years ago.  But now things have changed a lot.  Now, when you list your item on the auction format on eBay India, you do get some bids on your item, but once the auction is over your buyer never pays you.  So, you are stuck with the sold product for sometime.  You cannot re-list it as you may not know when will your buyer pay for it.  You just wait and wait and wait.  Worst your buyer just ignores all your e-mails and phone calls.  I am suffering with this problem long time.  So, I decided to list all my items in the fixed format called Buy It Now.  But I still miss the adventures of auctioning online.  This problem is with eBay India.  May be we Indians need to learn how to buy an item on auction.  There are lot of time-pass bidders who just bids on random items for fun and never pay for it.  

Chicken Curry

Chicken Curry.

Breakfast: Maggi Noodles, Kellogg's Corn Flakes

Recently, I woke up in the morning and was planning to prepare breakfast for myself.  In my kitchen I found nothing but a packet of Maggi noodles.  So, I decided to have instant noodles and started to cook it.  As we all know, to make noodles you need to boil two cups of water in a container and add noodles and Tastemaker.  Finally, serve it hot with some butter.  But I thought what if I add some Kellogg's Corn Flakes.  So, I added the corn flakes beside the cooked noodles and mixed it gently.  What I saw was amazing.  The crispy corn flakes absorbed almost all the excess gravy that was left with the noodles.  That's what I wanted.  Lastly, I added a little butter and served it to myself.  It was a great breakfast.  What about you?  Please do share your story with me.

My Experiments with Eggs and Roti.

What you are looking here is an experimental breakfast made by me.  I call this a mixture of fried eggs and fried roti (Indian home made bread).  Its so easy to make.  If you live in India or you have Indian home made Roti and some eggs, you can prepare this dish easily.  Just fry some eggs in a fry pan just like scrambled eggs.  Then cut the Roti into small pieces and add them into the fry pan.  Keep frying both the eggs and the roti until they are well cooked.  Add some salt and pepper.  Finally, garnish it with some butter.  Have it with hot tea, coffee or even with a cup of hot tomato soup.  I had it with tea.  Please leave a comment and tell me how was yours.

Information Search Analysis Skills ISAS

Information Search Analysis Skills ISAS 

Information Search Analysis Skills ISAS Book 1

Information Search Analysis Skills ISAS Book 2 

These two books were a part of my GNIIT course at NIIT.  These books teaches you how to search for information, arrange it and create a document or a report.  It was part of our project work.  Some of the pages are missing as we had to fill those pages and submit it to the class.

These books are now available for sale on eBay India. 

http://www.ebay.in/itm/271121539719

How to cook and make tasty potato soup?

Wash the potatoes.  Peel off the cover from the potatoes.  Boil the potatoes in a container with six cups of water.  Drain the water.  Fry some onions on a fry pan along with ginger and garlic.  Cut the potatoes into small pieces and fry with the onions.  Add salt and pepper.  Finally add two cups of water and cook under low flame.  Your potato soup is ready.  Add one teaspoon of butter and serve hot with bread rolls.