Textbooks: Dictating your future

Textbooks of a school, a state, or a country reflects, how it is going to shape up itself in future. Textbooks are something available to most of the people of a country at a rate they can afford. Taking this to their advantage, government has made it their Facebook, they could publish or hide whatever they want. Removal of Tienanmen Square massacre from Chinese Textbooks, Thomas Jefferson from US, subtle parts of history in India, and Portraying Palestinians as only some kind of peasants in Israel are a few examples of this kind. Do we the People, don't have any rights to know the truth about the history? Is government so free to erase past, change the present and shape the future they ways it suits to them? Are we still living the era describe by George Orwell in "1984"? I really love the last quote made by economist in an article related to textbooks: "A trip to Wikipedia by way of a smartphone will not necessarily let children work their way out of such dichotomies. But it will help." Hope we won't do something that we deem necessary to hide from our progeny.

Bold Reforms in India - 2012-09-21

Really liked the idea of PM, haven't we had initiated the reforms, we never would be able to rise beyond our mediocrity for years. All the good life seen in US, I wish would be true someday.

Quotes

Gravity of a Coupon accelerate your pocket to the limit of free fall.

Who copied whom?

In a recent article about Wikileaks disclosure of Indian Congress Party buying MPs to get confidence vote, there is a weird similarity between the articles of TOI and TheHindu. The content is exactly SAME!!.

Check the links below
The Hindu
Times of India
World Wide Web

I don't know what does that mean, whether they buy news from same source of copy each other like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V this is how the headlines of our premier news papers are...

Know your Mobile Inbox.

You probably have received SMS prefixed with LM, LD, TD, VM, EZ etc. Do you know what does that mean? Which service provider is sending you these messages.

I have found it decoded, please visit below link for more info:
Trip and Trace

Official cricket broadcasting of 2011 World Cup on :
ESPN STAR Live

Day to Day Phrases Used in English

Common Phrases and Expressions in English (From the website http://www.world-english.org/common_phrases.htm)

Here are a few common phrases and expressions used by native speakers of English in their everyday speech. To suggest another or ask a language related question, click here.

Word/Expression: to wolf something down
Quick translation: to eat something quickly
Example: "I wolfed down that sandwich so quickly."
My interpretation: Wolves are known for eating their food quickly, for fear that another wolf will get to it before them. So to "wolf something down" is to eat as quickly as a wolf does.

Word/Expression: gotta
Quick translation: to have to/to need to
Example: "I gotta leave now."

Word/Expression: to go (expression used where food is sold)
Quick translation: to carry out/to take out with you
Example: a waiter or salesperson may ask "Would you like (your food) to go?"

Word/Expression: sick (when used to describe a person's mind or an event)
Quick translation: strange or perverted
Example: "That person is sick!" or "What he did to her is sick!"

Word/Expression: What's up?
Quick translation: a very casual way to say "Hi" or "How are you?" or "What is happening here?"

Word/Expression: handy
Quick translation: very useful, very industrious, or able to fix things themself
Example: "Her husband is very handy around the house."

Word/Expression: to catch a taxi / cab
to hail a cab/taxi
Quick translation: to get a taxi / cab
Example: "Let's catch a taxi to the restaurant."

Word/Expression: to catch a TV show/newstory/conversation
Quick translation: to hear or see something
Example: "Did you catch the news last night?"

Word/Expression: to have time
Quick translation: to have sufficient available time
Example: "If we have time, we can stay at the bar until 11:00 p.m."

Word/Expression: to threaten to kill someone
Quick translation: to be very mad with someone
Example: "I'm going to kill her when I see her."

Word/Expression: "Whatever floats your boat."
Quick translation: whatever pleases you
Example: "I'd prefer to go on Sunday." Response: "OK, whatever floats your boat."

Word/Expression: shaky/sketchy
Quick translation: unsafe, unclear, not a good idea
Examples: "I'm not sure what my boss wants me to do. His directions were a bit sketchy." OR "Should you go there? Isn't that neighborhood a bit shaky/sketchy?"

Word/Expression: "I'm outta here" (I am out of here)
Quick translation: I am leaving now

Word/Expression: guy/guys
Quick translation: a man/a group of men or a group of men AND women.
Examples: "Hi guys (men and/OR women)... what's up?" "That guy (man only) is strange." "Those guys (men, or group of men and women) are also coming with us."
Further clarification: Guy (singular) can only refer to a MAN. Guys (plural) can apply to a group of men and/or women.

Word/Expression: to double-check
Quick translation: to re-check or verify
Example: "You should double-check our bank account balance before we plan our vacation trip."

Word/Expression: "You gotta be kidding me."
Quick translation: "You must be joking." OR "What you are saying cannot be true."

Word/Expression: gonna (pronounced like "gunna")
Quick translation: going to ....
Example: "I'm gonna clean the bathroom today."