Before using garlic, you can soak garlic cloves in warm water for 5 minutes. This will help to quickly peel off the garlic skin. Roasting the garlic lightly without oil on a pan also helps in peeling off easily.

This tip will come in handy for me as I cook Indian food and Indian food uses a lot of garlic in every form -- battered garlic, sliced garlic, whole garlic cloves and garlic paste.

Garlic peels easily with a good firm "thump" of the side of a knife.

Wow! Delicious. I think I'll like Indian food.

O/T: Are you from India.

I am sure you will do. My mom cooks a lamb curry with the whole pod of garlic in it, yes without peeling it. That is the way it's supposed to be cooked.
When you want to have it, you should take out the softened garlic from the peel on your plate and have it. I tell you, it's the most amazing thing I have had in life.