Home Baked Banana-Chocochip-Walnut- Blueberry Cake recipe

This cake was prepared by baking two layers separately.
List of ingredients for each layer:

1. Two large size Banana
2. 1/2 cup All purpose flour (Maida)
3. 1/4 cup powdered sugar
4. 1 Table spoon Cinnamon Powder
5. 1/2 Table spoon Baking powder
6. 1/2 table spoon Baking soda
7. 1/4 cup melted butter
8. 2 eggs
9. 4 table spoon chocochip
10. 4 walnuts kernels chopped and dry roasted.
11. 25 gram dried blueberries

For preparation of Blueberry-Cherry Sauce:
1. 100 gm deseeded and finely chopped Cherries
2. 50 gm dried blueberries
3. 1 cup sugar
4. 2 cup water

For decoration:
1. Kitkat chocolate
2. Cherries
3. Dark Chocolate scrapping

Take a flat base kadhai and then level the base with 300 gm of table salt. Put a  hot pot stand to stablize the cake mould. Preheat the kadhai for 10 minutes on put it on low flame and cover it.
Pre-grease the cake mould with butter and put it in freezer for 2 minutes. Then sprinkle some maida on the mould and shake it so that all the mould is covered in thin layer of maida. Put it back in freezer.


A. Dry preparation

Sieve All purpose flour, cinnamon powder, baking powder and baking soda in a container.

B. Wet Preparation

Wish egg whites and then add egg yolk and them whisk again.
Add powdered sugar and whisk again.
Add this to large bowl and gentle add melted butter (preferably at room temperature).

D. Gently mix the dry ingredients in the bowl. Fold it gently. Add chocochip and walnut and fold again.

Transfer the contents to cake mould and place it carefully in preheated Kadhai (there should be equal space from sides of kadhai to the cake mould.

Cover the kadhai again and put the flame on low. Wait for 40 minutes.

Check by using toothpick is the cake is baked perfectly.

Take out the cake mould and let it cool. By using a knife, gently separate the sides of the cake.

Now take out the cake by inverting the cake mould.

D. Blueberry-Cheery sauce for decoration:
Mix all the contents in a pan and put it on medium flame. Let the mixture boil and become thick. Let it cool and them wet grind it in a mixer.

F. Final cake preparation:
Apply the Sauce on the first layer of cake then place the second layer. Generously apply the sauce on the sides and top of second layer.
Place kitkat fingers on the sides of the cake.
Cover the half of the cake by a paper and sprinkle the chocolate scrapings.
Arrange the fresh cherries on the top.

Viola your cake is ready for celebrations!!

If, How, Why...

I am not taking any sides. I can't when there are so many to choose from.

We tried to make castles in air, and blamed each other for failing to do so. We can't when there is no foundation. When the differences run so deep and patience was thrown out the window long back.

Can we hold ANYONE responsible for not being able to come to any decision together whatsoever without having a BLOODY GOD DAMNED VOTE. Despite being well educated citizens of this country, we still have to resort to a raise of hands to decide anything.

But, it's not just about that. The fact that each one of us is so obsessed with ourselves that we fail to understand anything or anyone beyond I, makes me think.

Did we really LEARN anything here?

Have lost count of the number of case-studies we have solved here, yet, it seems we are still amateurs when it comes to solving our own problems (or cases).

How are we supposed to make people who are strangers to us, listen when we can't listen to each other for seconds?

Am no one to pass judgments here and surely not one to get into the debate of HE SAID-SHE SAID, but i do think there is something going on here that was not on the cards for us as IRMANs. You could say we learn from our experiences, but at what price?

Some might say 'enough with this IRMANs thing', but I think the one thing that really binds us together is the fact that we are all part of this great institution and being some one who thinks coming to IRMA was one of life's best decisions, I hope we are able to put aside our petty differences and see each other for who we really are.

Disclaimer: All 300 odd words posted here are my personal thoughts with no inspiration from anyone or anything dead or alive on this planet or any for that matter.

"Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart".

- Winnie, the Pooh

Life @ India's Biggest IPO Issuer

Let me begin this post by telling you what this post is not intending to do. This post is not an attempt to increase the stock price of Coal India Limited (CIL), which has been on a decline for a while. I am confident that there are capable people in the company to take care of that. This post is also not an attempt to romanticize the colony life, so that those who have not enjoyed it yet feel jealous of me. This is an attempt to bring forward the little things that makes life at a colony (right in the middle of a forest, sometimes), livable and the best one could have in his/her life. And if you are asking what is the need of this post at this time? Well, you can guess that i have got nothing better to do and my MTS is rocking!!!

Well, lets begin with where the life starts. Right at the birth. In India, the social prestige one is going to enjoy in his life is decided by the caste in which one is born. In CIL colonies, it depends on the post of the father in which one is born. You are a General Manager's child, you are right at the top of the hierarchy. You are an engineer's child, you are somewhere in the middle of the hierarchy. And god forbid, if you are a worker's child, you'll have to work very hard to know your hierarchy. Thinking of it, i remember how i came to know about my caste details only in standard tenth when i had to fill up the board exam form. I had a feeling i belong to the warrior clan of the Gupta's (of the Chandragupta Maurya fame) as my surname sounded in tune with them. So to hear that my forefathers were not these brave fighters but those (smart) businessmen was a shock initially. However, this just shows how your colony hierarchy supersedes every other hierarchy atleast in the mind of children.

Another interesting aspect was the selection of tuition classes for your subjects. Since the colonies are, most of the times, located away from cities, you need to find someone to teach you the tougher subjects in the colony itself. You see, parents dont want to take the risk of sending their children outside the colony and thus contaminating them from the OTHER SIDE (read people outside the colony). So you do a search for the right class. And the criteria being. Yes, you are right. The number of girls attending the classes. It gave you a tremendous opportunity to increase the number of belts you receive on the Friendship Day.

Then there were the weekend Club Days on Saturday nights. With all the aunties busy playing Howzie (Lotto tickets) and uncles busy in discussing the break down of shovels and dumpers, it was a tremendous opportunity for us (read boys and girls) to gel together and play some cool games. The best being Lappan Chuppan (Hide and Seek).

Of course, one thing which surpassed all these was the excitement on the day of some important results. The whole colony came to congratulate you as if you have won some big amount in KBC (or if compared to the current hot shot - you have got a date with Dolly Bindra). Those are the moments you cherish for your lifetime.

Those were some days!!! Times have changed now. And so has the colony life. People spend more time on FB then meeting and playing with their friends. The charm and excitement of Club Days has also taken a back seat courtesy Bigg Boss and its inmates. The good old Ambassador and Maruti 800 has been replaced by some swanky new cars -- Volkswagen, Swift Dezire, Honda City et al. However, there is a umbilical cord that still binds the people residing there. And that is their belongingness of this great organisation called Coal India Limited. And this is the cord that will keep them binded for the rest of their lives.

So all you people who have invested in CIL and feel apprehensive about its future, take a chill pill and change the channel from CNBC (from where you will get some nerve recking analysis of CIL future) to NDTV GOOD TIMES (guess why?).

Thanks for your patience :)

IHLS -- The review (Part 1)

Well, there are no blogs on this forum for so long and im waiting for the clock to strike 6 so that i can begin my long journey back to the IRMA hostel. What can be a better combination to put on some random words which are hovering on the mind for a long period of time. Im a movie buff and had been since my mummy stopped changing my nappies. I still remember deabting with my good friend Lokesh the pros and cons of classics like Pyaasa, Kaagaz ke phool etc and dissecting every detail that we could think of. Those were some days!!!
I think thats enough self boasting for the time. To cut the long story short, writing a film review was on my mind for a very long time and today i have gathered enough courage to start with it. First of all, since you have decided to read this post, let me give a piece of my mind as to what a review should ideally be like. I feel that the review should ideally be about... the film! Some of the reviewers tend to diverge into unrelated matters while reviewing the film and try to connect past performances of the lead actors and their personal lfe to their current performances. Then there is the cost-benefit analysis the reviewers do before they publish the reviews on varoius medius. The comparison of the cost of hurting a very big producer/director whose work may not match his previous standards vs the benefit of getting into the good books of an incredibly lavish producer/director who could help the reviewer enjoy a nice weekend trip with his wife at chinchpokli/alibaug with all the facilities may force a reviewer to be mild in his/her criticisms for a film. And then there is always personal biases which hamper the truthfuless of the film reviews.
Well....i think a siren has souded somewhere and someone said in his typical baritone voice "Samay samapti ki ghosna" . This means the time has come to take leave and hurry up before my queen leaves me alone. If you are guessing something fishy, its gujarat queen i am taking about. My second home for the last 40 days. I will finish the rest of the blog at IRMA and try to present an unbiased view about the movie IHLS. Till then (if anyone still has the patience to read this), GOOD DAY!!!

Re-evaluating Ourselves

Its been a long time since I have been wanting to discuss some things and finally get some time to do so.
Last week was particularly hectic with all those MC and MM presentations. We got our grades for our MC presentations and I do not know why, but groups from Section B got poorer grades than groups from Section A. Only that this time, there weren't any mails written or long discussions about partiality and cheating as were done in HRM.
Is it that mails are written and faculty approached only when they care to hear us out thinking we have some genuine concerns. Just because Prof Nivedita Kothiyal would listen to our concerns and react, we would send her long mails while Prof K.V Raju or so many others wouldn't even care to listen.
I do not wish to pass judgements on whether students in section A (or B) cheat or not. Nor am I saying complaining against such acts is wrong.


All that I wish to say, is that we be more liberal and care to listen each other out before taking such steps or accusing one another. We label our faculty as great and what not, but do we really practice what they teach (or preach) when it really matters?
I wouldn't think so, especially after what I have been seeing in the last few months (especially in Jatra)!   

issues pestering me from quite sometime :-(

its hightime atleast to share with u on this platform n i'm happy for the same..

i dont and i cant really understand the ways things are going on..

can some1 make me understand the rationality behind grading some1 higher and giving some1 the worse?

grades r not the only concern now.. it surpassed many..

to be simple... crossed the threshold level.... :-((

main concern is:

does the rules of prm handbook applicable only to few?? (those who are not having the good image with the faculty??)

we often speak of level playin field and blah blah blah.. sustainable/equitable/equality & all the b.s..

is it only to the extent of speaking?? then wht is the need for all these things??

in the name of changin lives of rural ppl.. development....

every1 has his or her problems.. agreed.. but keep the issues and rewards equitable..

why the hell is some1 gettin undue advantage n why do some ppl suffer???

when some1 is in the position of influencin others and who is looked upon by many and holding some kind of power... shouldnt he justify the position he is holding?? shouldnt he be ethical??

i think this is hightime.. we introspect ourselves and other issues as well....

ps: i'm posting this only to vent out my anger.. no personal bias/issues/nor need any help(ofcourse cant xpect any)

only reason is to convey tht atleast try to follow wht u say or atleast try to..

Life@ whatever

As all MBA aspirants would do, I used to read a lot about IIMA aka WIMWI....And I didnt restrict it to merely the eye popping salaries they earned. It was the first year that interested me.
A lot of PGP students had written extensively about it and made it seem like hell. Average number of minutes slept was around 300,and similar statistics were bandied about. A lot of it was not really comparable or worthy similar to what is being done at IRMA (premier rural management institute....yeah...we dont compare ourselves with development institutions and vehemently deny being a management institute....so whom do we compare ourselves with??? :))
What is official is the number of case studies these guys do.300 in the first year and 250 in the second year. And a full case is something that I have read (IIMA is the academic mother of IRMA, NDDB being the financial father....pardon my gender insensitivity at making the money giving institute the father)...And if we extend the amount of time required to read the stuff, analyse it and then present it in the class 5 hours of daily sleep is something that seems believable.
I loved the feeling of being pushed to the wall.I felt the same would happen at IRMA...But alas....
All I saw was tacit agreements on going easy, quizzes being postponed and so on and so forth....
The faculty seems resigned to the fact this batch is like NAIRU...no use pushing it...and we have happily accepted that fact...
The academic rigour has been diluted...I fear...And everyone has to be blamed for it.