I am not a avid traveler and what ever traveling I do, I do by air as I feels indian trains are way too time consuming, I mean a 1000 KM journey can take 16 hours by superfast trains + few hours spent on coming/going to railway station and normally these trains journey are also very tiring.

My biggest problem with unconfirmed tickets is the inquiry office numbers which I always find it busy (not having PC or smartphone handy do have its consequences unfortunately) and with this online website and reservation system giving all kind of errors though I am not much more versed with it.

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So I am in mumbai now and will stay here for few months. the weather is good though its raining heavily and I am looking to send some inland letters but not able to send due to pin code problems,
This has always bothered me to get the pincodes of all cities of india, I am in mumbai right now and don’t know all the pin codes of mumbai but anyway I just made a search on ekikrat and surprisingly they do have all the mumbai pin codes including the once of suburbs like navi mumbai and thane!

I will be back to delhi in September and will catch up all the work! If you live in metro and wondering what are the pin codes of them, you can check them out Delhi pincodes, Chennai pincodes, Kolkata pincodes, Ahmedabad pincodes, Bangalore pincodes, Pune pincodes and Hyderabad pincodes.

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if you are looking for online part time jobs in India, you may be for rude awakening, there are not too many options available for you.But still you can make decent money through some option. Here are few ways you can earn part time income online in India

1. Start working as freelancer – This is the most easies and genuine way of finding online part time work. I had put a list of freelance sites which probably contains all the sites on the web offering part time work from home. Go and register in them and read the rules and how the site works, you probably won’t be making instant money but if you stay persistent, you should start doing well.

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if you are looking to send free SMS anywhere in india, here are 5 such services which you can use -

1. way2sms – way2sms is one of the highly popular service in India, often used and promoted by orkut people. Just like other services, it also depends on the sms/email gateways of mobile service provides which means it wont’ deliver the sms to everywhere but it works well. Expect some spam sms’es too from them. Using way2sms, you can also send the sms through email allso.

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A long time back during baazee days, India had a service called paisapay which was an alternative of paypal and since the acquisition of bazee by ebay and paisapay being reduced to ebay india only,I have always felt that India seriously needs a paypal like service where people can easily pay money to someone through an online account without the hassle of going through all these Bank NEFT process and filling 3 different passwords. etc.

One of the main reason why we need a service like paypal in India is because this will speedup the ecommerce industry in India which gets hurt seriously with heavy transaction fees of payment gateways. In ecommerce industry where the margins are wafer thin of 2 to 5%, and if you pay payment gateway fees of 3 to 5%, it leaves nothing to the ecommerce site.

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I just thought to make a list of Indian female bloggers who are writing professionally on the web. Now I haven’t seen too many indian female bloggers honestly who are blogging professionally (probably a good thing as the last thing the web need is more bloggers with adsense all over the blog:) ) but here are few which I could find -

1.Kamla Bhat – Kamla bhat probably is one of the most known female indian blogger who write and produces podcasts and takes interviews of some big shots in It industry. She has worked in various IT companies in silicon valley for over 10 years.

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I had talked about this in the past that why indian news websites needs a revamp and change the way they present news. For example sify which is a premiere indian news website has no comment moderation whatsoever and the news items are filled with flame comments. The Hindu’s site looks to be very 1995ish with google ads everywhere.

Now in the competitive Indian news channel market, a new player Tadka nework has also joined in. As per the press release, they are launching 6 sites right now BollyTadka, Edutadka, MoneyTadka, SportsTadka and TVTadka (in press release I only saw 5, they may launch the rest in coming days) where they are looking to cover various verticals in Indian web space. Overall a pretty novel concept and something which has already been successfully done in USA.

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Last year I was working on an Indian site which was in the competitive Indian matrimony market and hence I am probably in a better position to comment on Indian marriage sites then probably most of the others. Unfortunately the site didn’t got traction and though it is still working and accepting users I don’t think after one year they are even near to breaking even.

The biggest problem for them was that they were in the niche which has players like shaaadi.com which is almost 8 years old and probably has over million members. The law of the Internet says bigger will keep on getting bigger and its very difficult to compete against them if they also have some competitive advantage against you, which shaadi.com certainly has which is the ability to take micro payment by going to members home, something which is not possible for other sites (except bharatmatrimony)

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In the last post I had covered IndiBlogger as how good place it is where all the bloggers can hang out, now the problem with blogging is that it is very biased towards males and is heavily male dominated.

In the whole blogosphere, I see only 4 or 5 professional full time blogger who can be called authority and the rest are part timers. In India, things are even worst and other then few handful I barely sees any female blogger blogging.

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I am seeing Humsurfer for over 3 years now and it seems to be ranking for almost everything in search engine thanks to its age and google algorithm. Now the problem with humsurfer is, its juat a spam aggregator of news items, most of them not even related to india.

It has couple of million pages in Google and there is absolutely no useful information on the site, since it has no community whatsoever. People submit the pages to it which makes for probably 10% of its total pages, the rest are automated rss feeds pulling.

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