Preparations for Diwali or the Festival lights is on its high in India and the most favored delicacies during Diwali time revolve around sweets. The most popular dessert during Diwali time is Sheera or Sweet Semolina Fudge. The recipe is as follows:
Ingredients
1 Cup Semolina
1 Cup Milk
2 tablespoon Clarified Butter
1/4 Cup Nuts (Pistachios, Cashewnuts, Almonds)
Chopped Raisins
Chopped Bananas
Cardamon Powder
Method
1. In a wok melt clarified butter and roast semolina until light brown.
2. In a non-stick shallow pan stir milk and sugar.
3. Heat the milk for some time and add nuts, raisins and chopped bananas.
4. Simultaneously stir in roasted semolina.
5. After the semolina blends thoroughly with milk, add cardamom powder.
6. Serve hot or chilled.
Comments
Hey Esther, did you bother to check with Nupur before using her picture?
http://onehotstove.blogspot.com/2006/01/s-is-for-solkadi-and-sheera.html
Using images without prior permission is copyright violation.
Hi, As polarmate said above, this is a picture from my blog that you have plagiarized. Kindly remove it immediately.
Miss Nupur,
This photo is being taken from http://www.flickr.com/photos/33829002@N00/87002638/, where your photo is made public since January 15th, 2006.
You must first check your declaration of a particular image and then accuse a writer and that who belongs to the same community. Moreover Nupur if you work in Instablogs community you can realoize that all content in Instablogs moves through efficient hands of our editors and we do not directly post our stuff on our channels and handling my Food channel from the past one year and earning good links for myself I think I should be more than sorry with your for a cheap stuff like plagiarism, where even my recips are my own and stolen or borrowed from a site.
Nupur we at Instablogs are a respectable channel and every channel of our has earned a reputation of its own and we are serious, I mean very serious of keeping it. Therefore, if you think that this photo of yours which I have taken after the statement ’public’since January 15th, 2006 is been plagiarized then nupur I am extremely sorry for having misunderstood the statement public.
Anyways deletion or uploading of a post is not in the hands of freelancers and therefore you can mail our support team, they will remove the picture for you.
Thanks Esther
Well, your respectable channel’s reputation is already jeopardized...many instances of plagiarism have been detected by various people.
Coming to the point...yes, you have misunderstood the meaning of the word ”public” on Flickr. It means ”public” can VIEW the image, not that you are free to COPY it. Copying an image from Flickr the way you have done is against their community guidelines, and you have infringed that.
You state that I should mail your support team and ask them to remove the picture. Is that the proper response, Esther? Under the circumstances, don’t you think you should mail them yourself and ask for removal of the picture? You don’t even bother to provide an address where the support team can be contacted. You expect me to run around and do it yourself. What a sad attitude! Kindly mail the support team yourself and ask for the picture to be removed directly. And please, please familiarize yourself with the idea that ”public” viewing of a picture does not give you the right to copy it without attribution.
Fine nupur...it shall be done and seeing that you yourself are a member of this Instablogs community and you have such high regards for the community that you have joined.
Esther, as a further note to what Nupur mentioned about Flickr and ’public’, you and your editorial team need to check what the licence is for an image and whether or not it is in the public domain. If you are hearing ’public domain’ for the first time, please take some time to do a spot of research. Google is your friend for this.
The licence for Nupur’s picture is shown on this page:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=87002638&size=o
Please note that it says ”© All rights reserved.” That means you can’t use it without the owner’s permission.
Now please tell us that you are going to go through all your posts and delete all the images you found and used without permission. We don’t want to bring it to your attention again and again. It will only serve to pull down the reputation of this community that you are working so hard to build.
As for being members of the InstaBlogs community, if we have to comment here, we have no choice but to join and create blogs.
If reputation is as important to you and your editing team as you say it is, we’d like to see this addressed too:
http://www.foodmall.org/entry/tangy-tomato-pickle-to-add-taste-to-your-meal/#comments
Polarmate your efforts for joining in the fight against plagiarism is commendable. Therefore, please go ahead and set an example for us by doing some great posts in our channels as you are expected to do, if you have chosen to join this community.
As far as creating blogs in Instablogs are concerned then please don’t bother, we have an efficient team who is taking care of it.
One more thing Polarmate your comments are welcome in our channels and also your efforts to base your comments on ’plagiarism’.
As you would come to know later that in this community maintaining good relationships with bloggers is utmost important and therefore we being a very old part of this community would maintain it with our new members.
Esther, you are not getting the point, are you? We are not ”new members” of your community. We were forced to sign up as members just to be able to write these comments. So, please stop referring to me as a ”new member”. I have nothing whatsoever to do with Instablogs.
Thank you very much for deleting the picture.
esther,
like those who commented before me, i was forced to sign up here to post a comment. didn’t know i was expected to ”post great blogs” here.
the attitude here is distressing.
just to let you know, nupur and polarmate have been blogging for a long time now. they both have outstanding blogs and to ask them to make ”great posts in our channels” is hilarious to say the least.
your editors need a crash course in copyright laws and etiquette.
Esther, what are you doing about the rest of the pictures on your posts? That you have taken without permission?
For example, how you used Sailu’s picture of ridge gourd curry:
http://www.sailusfood.com/2006/06/25/beerakaya-paalu-posina-kura-ridge-gourd-curry/
in your post here:
http://www.foodmall.org/entry/ridge-gourd-cooked-in-poppy-seeds-paste/
The picture of an eggplant is also from someone’s flickr stream.
If you are such a good member and you really care about your community’s reputation, get hold of a digital camera, go to a restaurant, order a similar sounding dish, take a picture and use it in your posts. Since none of your recipes match the pictures, this will work very well for you. You will also be cured of this compulsive disorder of stealing other people’s pictures without their permission.