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If you are one of those who constantly visit del.icio.us, BBC, Business.com, Technorati, ESPN, and the favourite-of-millions wikipedia and Flickr, then this article is for you. All these websites will be a click away from you. Those using Moxilla Firefox browser in their computer can have access to these websites. And those who haven't installed Mozilla Firefox can do so by downloading option at the left side of this blog by clicking on the icon reading "Get Firefox with Google Toolbar for Better Browsing".

However, there are more in store. Those who are very much conscientious of UK English and US English. The Firefox browser has many things to offer. The browser helps you as much you want yourself to be assisted.

You would be thinking and might have decided to quit this page - what the guy is telling these trick could be done going directly to the bookmark option. It is always click away, after all.

But here lies the importance of the Mozilla Firefox browser. You can directly go to these websites' search option without all the way paying a visit.

Firefox users can use the address space that is available in the right corner of the browser adding with these websites' search option. In my browser I have added with these following websites' search engines.



To add these search engines, go to Mozilla Add-ons: Search Engines and download websites' search engines of your choice. It is fun to go directly to the websites' search engines with just a click.

The Mozilla Add-on has more to those who love language. Users can download the language dictionary of their choice, in our case it is UK English and US English. Click here to download these dictionaries.

Woman a mother

She comes hurriedly leaving aside all her work as you give a shrill cry. She leans over your cradle, clasp your tiny hands and smiles at your innocent prank. You cry, strike your hands and bash your feet. She takes you in her cosy arms and cuddles you to her chest. Sitting on the cot nearby, she jig you on her knees and makes you giggle. She sings a lullaby in her sweet magical voice and caress you with all her warmth. You feel relax and gaze her ecstatic face. She gently feed you and kisses your forehead. You are blissful baby now, close your eyes slowly and lost in deep lull. How secure you are in her lap! She is your mother who gives you the birth.


Woman a life partner
You behold her as she passes by. She arrests your attention with her gleaming eyes. You feel longing whenever you see her again. She is pretty in her own unique ways and catches your fancy by her beauty and grace. Your heart yearns for her presence, crave for her touch and seek chances to make her a friend. You couldn't help but open your heart; confess your love and give her word. She puts her trust on your word; make you elated and submits herself. She gives you strength in your hardships and paves the path for your lead. Yet she smiles when you wreck her inside and make her cry; shetter her being and devastate her life. For she doesn't break vows of her love. She is your lover; she is your wife; the comrade of your life.

She loves 'love'
Woman makes man's life; help him to survive. Yet she is trampled underfoot by man; her purity is abused many times. Yes, it is true. Woman plays her roles beautifully in man's life. But things go wrong when her jealous self subdue her virtuous self and make her wayward and perverse in vanity and pride. Woman is a power inside, yet she should know the truth, she is powerful only when she is woman in her real essence lest she will be man's fellow egotist.

It is well said, " Man loves little and often; woman much and rarely".

OK! Daily you receive lots of mail from various known and unknown sources. There are friends, colleagues, subscriptions, Google Alert that drop in your Google mail: Gmail. And you don't know how to manage the flurry of mails directed towards you. You get mad when you are not able to find a particular important mail that you are searching.

How to manage it? Efficiently, intutively and, of course, without any effort. In Gmail, Labels are there to help you out from this mess. Use it intelligently, you will feel a different power and command. You will see the labels that I have created below.



To create Labels. Go to Settings and click on the Labels tab. And there you type the label name you want to create. It is done. Likewise you can create other labels.



Important thing about Labels is that once you've created a label, you can view all the messages with that label by searching, or by clicking the label name along the left side of any Gmail page.

Once you create the Labels and develop the command in your Gmail, you will definitely remember this post.

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There are people around who have been using Google mail service since from its inception. But their hand on it is that of a novice who has recently signed up. They still use a mouse to navigate for each and every action: compose mail, send, forward, and almost for every task. These people had to face problem when they do not find their companion (mouse). It becomes for them a daunting task to manage themselves to this particular situation.

But now they don't have to worry about it. They can use Keyboard Shortcuts to do every action they do with a mouse.

Press "c". You will be able to compose a new mail.
Press "k". It moves your cursor to a more recent mail. However, you can hit or "o" to expand or open the selected mail. Similarly, to move cursor to the old mail, press "j".
Press "u". It returns you to the inbox. In addition it also refreshes your page.
Press "x". It selects and automatically checks the box so that you can archive, apply a label, or choose an action from the drop-down menu.
Press "s" to put star on a message. It even adds or removes a star.
Press "r" to reply to the message sender. If you want to reply to all message recipients then press "a". And to forward, press "f".
Now the most important thing that we often do: delete. Press followed with "#".

The above mentioned keyboard shortcuts are those which I use when I am literally above Gmail. Well, here are few more shortcuts that goes with combination. Here "G" for Google rules. Read below and enjoy the "g" mania.

Press "g" then "i" to go 'Inbox' Returns you to the inbox.
Press "g" then "t" to go to 'Sent Mail'.
Press "g" then "a", it will take you to 'All Mail'.
Press "g" then "s" to go to 'Starred'.
Press "g" then "c" to go to 'Contacts'.
Press "g" then "d" to go to 'Drafts'.
Press "/". It puts your cursor in the search box.

Seems very hard to remember but it is not so. Start using shortcuts.

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We all know the tragic events that came with the Independence of India in 1947. We have heard from nowhere that train full of corpse were exchanged between India and Pakistan. Noted writer and journalist Khushwant Singh's brilliant novel 'Train to Pakistan' is about the story that built on the backdrop of Indo-Pak partition.



The novel, though a fiction, has incisively treated the India of 1947. It tells how people of different faith in the village called Mano Majra took the tragic event of partition? A partition that was done in the line of religion. The novel catches Mano Majra in its totality. It's geography, architecture, religion, and peoples' live has been described so vividly and accurately that often the village comes crystal clear in our eyes.

While reading the novel 'Train to Pakistan', like myself who has been smitten by the Khushwant Singh's first work, you would surely be full of adulation with the precision at which he narrated and build the relationship that the village Mano Majra had with the nearby railway station, and with the plying of trains between India and Pakistan.

Not enough, another aspect of the novel that would surely mesmerize you and make you feel as you are moving with the story comes with the mentioning of monsoon at the end of the plot. It invigorates life to the whole story making it very real and near to our heart.

The story takes pace and things started changing in the tiny village when dacoits kill the moneylender Lala Ram Lal and tossed a part of the looted material onto Juggat Singh's (Juggia) house. Police arrest Juggat Singh, a registered budmash in the book of law enforcers, along with social worker Iqbal Singh on the direction of the Sub-Inspector.

Along with Juggat Singh, there are many central characters in the whole story. Nooron,a muslim girl who had secret physical affair with Juggat Singh; Mali Singh, a sikh priest; Imam Baksh, a muslim cleric and Hukum Singh, a Magistrate and Deputy Commissioner of the district, are some of the main characters around which the story proceeds.

The tranquilizing peace of the tiny village, love and commotion among Hindu, muslims and sikhs get all shattered when one day a 'ghost train' arrived from Pakistan full of dead bodies. However, the arrival of the another train with the same fate poisoned the whole weather of the village.

Nooron, oblivious of the changed weather, her father Imam Baksh and the muslim committee who had been living in the Manoo Majra for centuries were truck loaded to refugee camp and later to Pakistan. If something was left behind it was only the love of Juggat Singh and Nooron, Hukum Singh's remorse of letting a girl of her daughter's age with whom he had a luscious relationship to Pakistan.

Khushwant Singh's book 'Train to Pakistan', I found very much engaging, entertaining and so to put in the words of Arthur Lall, Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative from India to the United Nations: The book continues to be the one that any reader of fiction would greatly enjoy. It deserves to be recognised as a classic.

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"Fuck off" is among one of the words, I suppose, has been pollinated by English movies, and of course by the English education. Well, attributing to its mass usage the English education couldn't be held responsible since this word, so far I haven't found in any of the curriculum textbook.

We forget what we searched a day, a week before in the internet. But Google doesn't forget what we searched, clicked, even read and opened. The search engine keeps record of all your online activities. And good thing about this record keeping is that you can keep tab on your online activities.

So, if you want to know (or resurrect) the particular web page you had visited, including Google searches, and even images, videos and news stories. It can be easily done.

You can exactly find out, and follow your past minutes, hourly, weekly schedule. It is fantastic to know that the online diary has been created without your physical effort. It is truly intuitive.

To activate this feature - allowing Google to keep track of your online activities. First thing you have to do is to sign in when you open the Google's browser.



You might have seen this at the right corner of the Google's browser.



However, if you want to unravel the secret. Go to Google Web History and read your online script. The Google History is updated in real time.




Even you can analyse your whole online trend and many more. See the tags below.



So, next time do feel relax and carry out your online work.

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Again lot of political speculations over young turk Rahul Gandhi's new move. This time his 'Discover India' tour has triggered off debate among political leaders and analysts. He kicked of his four day journey on Friday from the tribal-dominated Nuapada district of Orissa. Such kinds of speculations were made earlier also, when he was appointed as the chairman of the NSUI and the Youth Congress and as a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).

Nevertheless, it could be assessed that Rahul is progressing in his political career. He is gradually catching the nerve of being a politician. However, his progress has been contributed by his inherited legacy!

At a time, when UPA government and Left are at loggerheads over Indo-US nuclear deal, Rahul's 'Discover India' tours seems to be just a political stunt of Congress. Rahul is now being posed as an icon for Indian youth by his party. Is he really?

Who can be termed as an icon? One who has a standing of his own, whose individuality created inspirational aura, whose works set certain ideals and principles.

Well, Rahul is charismatic and he could be no less than an icon for youth but at the present situation, however it is explicit somewhere that his charisma is not accessible to everyone beyond his constituency.

It could be said that he is still in a incubator under certain favourable conditions. This has resulted into a wide gaping between him and the common man of India.

He seems to be more of a pampered prince safeguarded by his mentors rather than a well trained and brave soldier of an army.

It is undeniable that present political scenario demands young shoulders to carry the carriage of expectations of the entire nation. Congress has taken initiative in this field.

Congress has offered a platform to the youth and has given them opportunity to participate in active politics. We appreciate its move. But being a grand old party of India, its steps should be genuine rather than tinged with the colour of politics. Rahul has to be his real self rather just a trick of his party to win the election by attracting people.

Word: Pranati Saikia
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Is it possible? Yes. There is no tax if you don't work.

When you grow up many responsibilities come. And among many responsibilities, paying tax to the Income Tax department is one which one has to bear, though it is a different story - whether you love or loathe it! But, you can't shrug it off from the painstaking, gruelling experience.

Last week, my days turned hell, I was literally sent to the gallows of death, yearly perpetrated by the department of IT. For a moment (many days), I thought justice was not done to me. I was made a scapegoat to the irresponsible job done by ........[hope you can understand, I work in a company].

I had to suffer, the suffering that was immeasurable and abstract and can't possibly be veiled with the precision of words. I was helpless, after all I had to pay an exorbitant tax that I was NOT entitled to.

The order to pay x amount of tax came as an decree to me which I can't challenge in many of the High Court or in the single Supreme Court. I was feeling miserable to my state of not being able to challenge the decree.

I was slumbering from inside. I was crying. Asking many questions to myself, introspecting hard - why this has happened to me? Very often I cast doubt on my thinking process. Am I not reacting harshly to this situation which was normal to many? The truth is that every time I went down to my conscious and unconscious level, spicing with all my education and savvy knowledge I got only one answer: I am not entitled to this amount of tax.

No body advocated to my hardship that I was undergoing. I mass messaged to all of my friends, near and dear one, the story of my agony. All got flummoxed listening to my pathetic condition. They had the same answer: I don't have to pay tax.

But their repeated assurances were of no use, since the person who had to advocte my case was a greenhorn, novice, inexperienced to the curvy, complex arithmetic of book keeping, and of that of a company level! I was confirmed from the beginning. The person has only read books and solved those that are asked in exams. She failed to answer those questions that were not asked in the exam. We all know how an Indian student clear exam, it is all about the principle of '3': 3-hour of exams; 3-days before exams; 3-months before exams that all matters. And of course, hit-and-trial method of guessed questions.

Besides all these, something that came as a big surprise was that I was not informed when all the 'wrong' calculations were taking place. The final result was announced to me that I have to be hanged till death only by paying the tax.

In a country like India where millions are below poverty level how one could pay taxes, and I come below poverty level! Keeping aside all these things, if there had been something which angered me to the hilt and jerked my consciousness was the demeanour of the person whose job was to save me from the near-possible death. The reaction that I got from the person whenever I approached [him/ her] to assuage my pain was ditto similar to the DTC bus conductor: unempathetic, unsympathetic, moody,thorny. It was indeed a horrible state for me. The whole bad blood in my body oozed out from my veins and arteries.

Not withstanding, at last with all of my documents - working and not working - I filed a review petition to the higher echelons of power. My situation seems that of a person who has to prove he is an Indian and not a Bangladeshi!

At last I won the case, I am an Indian and not a Bangladeshi, but with a heavy price: an x amount of my earning (a salary of a person) had already been deposited to the IT people that I can't get. Sorry, I will get it after I had smoothened my shoes in the corridors of the IT department that may take from 6-months to 1-year.

I got justice, at last. I heaved a sigh of relief that couldn't be maintained in the accounts' books.

What I learned from this experience is that: 1. Experienced hands do matter. 2. A clever enemy is better than a foolish friend, for you can at least learn from a clever enemy, while a foolish friend harms you while he thinks he’s helping you.”

It is said that films are the mirror of society. Films reflects as well as influence the course of society by interpreting and showcasing the various aspects and complexities of human life. Though it seems to be glamorous and alluring, but film making is an uphill task. It is a creative process, which requires unyielding perseverance, strong commitment and above all adequate funds to meet with the demands of a good script. Excellent theme, superb screenplay and heart rendering music and lyrics make a film not only a box-office hit but also unforgettable.

Films have always been an integral part of Indian life style. People in India not only watch but they imbibe films, get influenced and moved by the themes. Recently, noted director Ashutosh Gowarikar's latest film 'Jodha Akbar' became controversial issue for a section of society over the name of 'Jodha'. Rajput organisation Kshetriya Mahasabha in Uttar Pradesh protested and alleged that the film maker had distorted history, which hurt their sentiments. It has been banned in Uttar Pradesh, Madhaya Pradesh and various cities of Haryana and Uttarakhand.

Couple of months back, 'Aaja Nachle' was also banned in Haryana and Punjab due to controversial lyrics 'Bazar mein machi hai maramar, bole mochi bhi khud ko sunar' from the title song ' Aaja Nachle'. According to reports, the song had offended people belonging to scheduled castes.

Similarly, in 2000, Hindi films faced banning in the northeastern region of the country. It was alleged that the Hindi films undermine the cultural values of the states.

It is a known fact that films have been censored for one or the other reason. Often these include objectionable scenes, overriding of facts and figures and transgression of established norms in society. 'Kissa Kursi Ka' [1970] and 'Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love' [1996] are two of the movies that would be knowing.

But we cannot deny the truth that Indian psyche is vulnerable and gets hurt every now and then. As the themes of Indian films includes societal situations, social values and burning issues, so the integrity on the part of director is also indispensable. Sensitive issues based on casteism, communalism, customs and culture of a particular region must be dealt with honesty and cautiously so that there must not be any aggression and violation.

But the important thing to note is that Hollywood films are warmly welcomed and vociferously watched by the Indian audiences despite so much objectionable scenes, and alienated story lines. Is it only because of the reason that Indian people don't understand the language of these films? May be.

Nevertheless, the media coverage that these organisation get by stirring up the hornets' nest is another reason that movies are banned. And now, when media is all around peoples' mass reaction to any particular movie has become easy self-triggering.

Written by Pranati Saikia

Have you seen the new website of BBC? If not, then click here. How is it? Definitely good. After all it is a BBC site.

You will find there is a change in page colour. The previous shining red colour brand of BBC has been changed to multiple of customisable colours. The feature is invoked when you click on the 'Customise your homepage' tag. Much like the Google's iGoogle.

However, the new avatar of BBC's site helps users to add their favourite content and at the same time facilitates to remove those topics that don't interest them. It is easy and intuitive. Just one has to click on the 'Edit' button and check those topics that are of interest.

Clicking on the News' Edit button. A page appears like this.

Similarly, it goes with Sport and Weather.

Moreover, there are drag and drop options in the BBC website. It is fun to drag a section to another place. It is up to you how you place News, Sport, Weather, Radio and TV.

I have kept the News tag in the middle and rest in the right and left side. But, if you click on any of the topic to read, you land up on the old BBC website.

'Sons of the soil' - yes, it sounds striking, impressive, dramatic enough to stir people's mind, to hit their psyche and make them blind, fanatic and insane. Politicians often organise campaigns, movements under this steering slogan to stimulate the tender patriotic feelings of general masses for their own benefits and profits.

These are the campaigns on which divisive politics strives and sustains itself. Political violence, political killings following divisive politics have many times shaken the very roots of Indian nation and tried to destroy its unity and integrity.

Last month India's cosmopolitan city Mumbai witnessed the cruel form of ‘sons of the soil' campaign. The political violence triggered off when MNS activists had a clash with Samajwati Party supporters, who were present for a rally at Shivaji Park in the Dadar area of Central Mumbai. MNS men afterwards gathered at various places in Dadar and shouted slogans against Biharis and north Indians.

They assaulted taxi drivers, damaged taxis, attacked taxi-men's union office. In other cities in Maharashtra, MNS men targeted temporary migrants, the construction workers and labourers. They harassed them and made them speak Marathi. They also compelled them to leave the state.

This was not the first time when such campaigns, agitations have snatched the livelihood of many, rendered them homeless and create disparity among people of the same country.

Couple of years ago, Assam politics also witnessed the simple scenario. State's hardcore militant group started attacking Hindi speaking people as outsiders.

Emotions relating to one's religion, community, language and caste are delicate one. Politicians have power to construct the nations but they must not use this power to destroy unity among people by manipulating these tender feelings and emotions. We are, and have one nation. We have one 'Indian' culture. No matter we hail from different states, different regions but we all are one race.

MNS leader Raj Thackeray doesn't suffer but the sufferers are those who struggle for their daily survival. MNS has given a bad name to Mumbai, the cosmoplitan city of the country.

The violence caused by his party men has exposed his political immaturity. He tried to reap the political benefits by moving Marathi manas. Nevertheless, the recent violence in Mumbai showed his political opportunistic disposition.

If we keep aside MNS and its reactionary measures, the respective government of Biharis and UPites must do something concrete so that its people get employment in their own state and they don't have to migrate to other states for the search of basic amenities of life - food, shelter and house.

The respective government and its leaders are also responsible for the present mess. They haven't paid attention to the development of the state. They must be questioned by the people and blamed squarely for the present turmoil and victimisation they have been undergoing of no fault of their own. Moreover, pressure must be created on the central government so that such incidents never happen again and again in different parts of India. Moreover, the central government must see there is equitable distribution of wealth, progress and development all over India, and not concentrated to a particular area or state.

Word by Pranati Saikia