UGC Aspirants and Search Engines

UGC NET HISTORY has remained a neglected blog.
For some days I had watched that the visits to this site had increased. I had not placed any major posting on this blog. It has remained neglected because I have plans to develop it on a later date. Secondly, I am working on a plan to first attract my students to my blogs and then to use blog as one of tool in teaching. While writing for undergraduate students, I may be writing on such topics which will cover the Indian history as well as World History. As far the Philosophy of History is concerned, I want to write some original essays on this topic on Sumir-history Blog and Review View Analysis blogs. Any how, I found that my UGC blog was receiving regular hits.

I have not checked the reports of sitemeters for some time. When I had placed the sitemeters on the blogs, I was always eager to know who visited my blogs. I spent lot of time on reading the sitemeters reports.

I have learned many things from reading the sitemeters. I learnt that what were the main search phrases of the visitors. That had given me many ideas to write the posts. I also learned about many search Engines. However, lately, I have discontinued watching the reports. The rush to some of my site had increased and I was hard pressed for time. There is a perennial problem of electricity cuts. I do not know how India Today has declared the Punjab as the most progressive state. I have not read the magazine at all because I can not relate it with the suffering which I am experiencing while living in Punjab.

I checked the site meter of the UGC blog. A very fascinating thing was observed. Nearly twenty recent visits to this site was reached through MSN search. Is MSN search becoming popular?


However, when I checked the referral url which took me to msn search engine, I did not find any major change in the research results of the MSN. It is same old type set up. Secondly, I am not able to use its preview section at all. I have found my visitors coming to my blogs from MSN preview.

It is my general observation that most of the users use google search or yahoo search. Yahoo search has tremendously improved in recent months. It seems that it is trying to give competition to googles. Even I have now shifted to yahoo. Just a day back, while getting Acrobat, the yahoo tool bar had been embed on my browser. First I thought of removing it but then I decided to maintain it for the time being.

On the other hand, I am getting infatuated by the search results of beta.previewseek.com. It is really a different material. I have started using its left hand side classification. It is more helpful then to check whole of the list as the search engines dish it out before you. It is definitely a more intelligent device.

The other important thing which I found about visitors to my UGC site is that they are from technical field and more concerned about clearing ugc cisr. I can understand why they are doing it. But their preference only for one particular engine really attracts and fascinate me. The visitors from Hyderabad were all MSN users.

Another visitor amused me more. He visited my site while seeking information for Rahon sword. The searcher, as per the sitemeter, is placed in America. He was also using msn search engine.


Somehow, I am made to conclude that the people who are in research field and students (because they have yet to clear ugc/csir eligibility in order to pursue their higher studies), they prefer MSN search engine. However, I have found google, yahoo and beta.previewseek.com as more effective tools. May they just place their desired term in IE address and the inbuild MSN search option find it for them.

Now, in coming breaks, I will check the reports of civil service blog as the visitors has suddenly increased and crossed 1000 mark.

Previewseek: A Search Engine

Previewseek Limited is a privately held, UK based company.

It is based in London. The exact names of the owners and professionals are not given.
The Previewseek claims, "Our mission is to help ordinary people find exactly what they are looking for quickly, easily and efficiently." It is their claim that one does not have to visit number of search engines in order to check other available information for the answers sought for a question. It is further emphasised that their search engine is based on twenty years research and such technologies which are not yet tried by other people.


They consider google as their standard benchmark. They claim that they have an edge over it and set ahead than googles. This is their main selling point.

They have a point when they elaborate on the point that their search engine is better than google. No doubt, they paid due regards to google people. But when they talk about their good points, they are not bragging. However, after using it for a week, I may say, they are different, practically useful but as I have talked once about Kartoo.com, one has become so accustomed to google searches that he may turn back to google results also. For some time, even Yahoo searches have showed improved results. It seems that they have also added some thing into their device that one can use them also.


They also claim that their results include the searches of other search engines also. If I remember, there is another search engine which tells that which variable is given in a particular form on different search engines. However, their presentation is definitely a work of a professional.

The engine also gives you a picture of the web page on the left side. They call it is their discreet presentation or prescient feature. If I remember, it is also done on MSN. That is other thing, where it is now, I do not know. It has reverted back to its older form. MS has thirst only for getting money even for breathing while you are using their softwares. That is other thing, a person like me may ask Gates to pay me first in order to even remember that he is there.

On the whole, it is a good search engine. I am using it for some days by now. It was only then I desired to look in for the people who are running it. The remarks evoked some feelings which I am not able to express here. I had actually done it to record those feelings but a type of write up has come up.


I here acknowledge that I learnt about it from Chittah Vishav.


The site link to previewseek is http://beta.previewseek.com/

Achilles’ heel of intellectual world

The scholars base their facts on assumptions. The whole of the intellectual world starts with an assumption that a given thing is a fact. The best example is mathematics. They begin with the assumption that there is a zero and there is a quantity which can be equated to one.

You change the assumption, the whole world of logic and reasons become redundant.

The truth remains exclusive just like the god.

The scholars begins with an assumption. He assumes that a given thing or proposition is a fact. Around that seed he builds a world of truth and realities.


It seems that every assumption, if it is taken as true, has the right to acquire life. A world can be built around that assumption. The world gives the impression that it is true and final.


You change the assumption, the whole world created around the earlier assumption will crumble down as a house of cards.

The scientific methodology helps us to ascertain the veracity of a fact. However, it is an assumption which helps us to define any experiment. It is again a set of assumptions which are used to classify and derive conclusions from the data gathered from the experiment. It is again an assumption when the conclusion is used to pass the verdict on the thesis.

One thesis is proved to be true at a one point of time. But soon a counter fact emerge and dismantle the veracity of that thesis. If that thesis was true at a given point of time then how it has happened that it is proved wrong at other point of time. There is only one reason and that it is that the intellectual world begins from an assumption. The time changes, the assumption changes and thus the conclusion changes. Here is Hegel went wrong. He gives a rule. But if you start questioning that why every thesis would be followed by antithesis, then before jumping to the argument that it the gradual revelation of the idea, try to use the paradigm that it was the assumption which was changed. The assumption can change with time, it can change with place, it can also change with the circumstances which is again the function of time. In Shantiparva of Mahabharta, Bhimshma Pitmaha had put it is more effectively. He explained to Arjuna that whatsoever is dharma today will become Adharma tomorrow. The Adharma of today will become Dharma of tomorrow. The change take place with time, place and circumstances. Similarly, the same process and mechanism is explained in the last chapter of the Tulsi Ramayana. It is explained through Shakbhushundi, a crow.

Here again the question arises, that it is being explained as an ordained mechanism. It also try to same that it is a law that change would take place in a particular pattern. But, if we break ourselves from this type of understanding and try to question that if it happens like that, then why does it happen in that manner? It will bring you to the point where you may be compelled to ask that what actually goes in your thinking process when you identify a fact, or an information or a thesis as true. You call it hypothesis before declaring it as a thesis. It is a process by which the brain identify an assumption and then take that assumption as a thing or as an assertion. Then begins all the play of intellectual exercise.


Take any example of adopting a given fixed criteria with some variables. Now, through logic you can deduce a world of intellectual conclusions. But then declare that the starting premises was mere an assumption, you may find that all the derivations were mere exercise in mental imageries. The best example is accepting a god. For a second, do not identify god either with Christ, or Allah, or any symbol of god. Do not identify it with non descriptive existence or "Onkara" or the ultimate. Just try to feel and understand that it is an assumption. You will soon find, that whole of the world works like that. The best example of this exercise which have given results is mathematics. The quantification of any force, or anything thing, or even time, is an assumption. But try to see. Can you do without them now in this scientific world.


Further, the truth exists exclusive of your understanding of the truth. You can understand English. You may make out sense out of whatsoever is written up to this point. The same thing can be said in Chinese, in Arabic and Sanskrit. It can be said in Latin and Greek. But if they are used to convey whatsoever is said here in English, you would not able to understand anything. But the understanding can be conveyed to you in the language in which you can communicate. In India, many people know Hindi. But they do not know Sanskrit. Same thing can be said in Sanskrit. But a common man will not be able to make any sense out of it. Tell the common man the same thing in Hindi, he would understand what is being said here. Therefore, it means, that fact is exclusive of language.

For the same arrangement, it can be said, that truth remains as it is. Whatsoever, you consider as true is merely your assumption. Some assumptions help you to live a time with seemingly fruitful activity. But that does not mean that you actually know the truth. The truth remain separate from you assumption. It is only that your assumptions present a seemingly workable paradigm. But soon you realize that there is a shortcoming in your understanding. You do not say that your assumption was faulty. You would say that you have not understood the truth in the right form. There are some more contours of the truth which you have discovered now therefore, what you understand earlier was a half truth. This is how the world of intellect works. As far as the successes and achievements are concerned, they are mere mirage. The ultimate truth remain untouched and it keep on goading you to reach it but you never reach there. You can not get the truth. Whatsoever is with you is an assumption, which you take as true. That is not true. But you believe that it so. You have identified a method of enquiry which you call scientific enquiry. It is again an assumption. But it has shown some results. But it is not the ultimate way of learning the truth. The main lacuna is that it is based on assumption. It is some thing which Preto has said and explained. This is how the intellectual world lives. No doubt, the Indian Rishis were true and right, when they said, that wait for the intuition to receive the truth. That seems to be the only way. But again, it raises the same question and that it is, is it not an assumption?

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Is it a News for ME?

Me and Me.

I am getting dreamy and falling into a reverie.

There is a news for bloggers from the Sarkar. HEEE HEEE.

India government is thinking about e intelligence and doing e thinking.

My dear Sarkar, Kindly first ensure regular supply of electricity and pot and pond less roads. At least in Punjab they are not there since Ravi Sidhu is behind bars.

A news item is HERE.

The most marvellous thing is that this news item has been found on daily reporting on Blogger Buzz. Hey, Do you know, you sitting there on other side of the Atlantic (or the pacific, which ever way you have placed your desk),. I am not sure to complete writing this because I do not know when the electricity would go off.

Yesterday, I remained awake the whole night. The electricity men had slept without attending their duties and I was able to blog and do work on my computer.

I was able to do three things.

First I was able to record some pages which I have been writing when there was no electricity.

Secondly, I was able to post a tabulation in HTML under heading "A Trial" on one of my inactive blog. I do not know much about HTML. But I am sure, if someone look at the work, he would definitely exclaim, "Man you have done a hell of a job."

Thirdly, I was able to post in Hindi. There is so much talk about promoting Hindi. I am in the middle of the Book, British Paramountancy and Indian Renaissance. In the first three chapters, there is discussion on the English in colonial India. There is another essay which I have downloaded from net titled "A dubious Qoutation". I desire to pass a comment on that. The book that I have mentioned is written by a nationalist historian Dr. R. C. Majumdar. It is worth reading. It is astonishing to learn the detail about how English was introduced in India. Then the dichotomy will be revealed. Then one can see how dubious are the talks and desires of the people who want to promote the national language and how they have failed in nurturing sincere desires. Is it also a part of Apadadharma? Well, what PaP can be there when Ganga is following?

The Alchemy of Desire

The address of the web site of Tarun Tejpal the author of The Alchemy of Desire is as follows:

Site address: http://www.taruntejpal.com/default.htm

The Indian edition of this book costs Rs. 500/-

I went to buy it but returned buying some other books.

The author seems to have launched his site for promoting his book. However, in the biography link, he has given his other writeups also. It is good to have this site because when Tehlka was in news, being over conscious, I abstained from accessing it. Later when I tried to open, it did not download. Here, this site just appears without efforts.

Another section section contain the comment of the general readers which include leading names from the world of art, cinema, intellectual world and others.

(Category: Resources on Net)

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Just for general interest. Requires earliest review.

Are You Ready

(Refer here to A New Discovery – A relieving letter, Friday, December 08, 2000 5:05:54 AM.)

It is the only real truth. You say your thing forcefully. You make your own virtues. You free yourself from the set of values which the society is professing. You try to discern the real set of values. They are based on opportunism.

I still believe in the existence of god. My god is not what the set of values the society profess. My god is a center of power which is there to help you and work for you. Rather you are here to use him. Just use him. You act like Dr. Fastus. You god is not a satin. He is god. He will show the right path. He is not bound by the values as professed by the society. He helps those who help themselves. He is having his own way of rewarding. He does not evaluate you as per the standards of the society. If you try to be humble it is not that you do it to appease the god. You act in that manner only to appease the society. If you want to appease the god then do that what the people whose names are recorded in history had done. Just achieve whatsoever you want to achieve.

Demand from the god. Sit and ask for his help and then start working. He would help you. He is the real creator. He is the real doer. Be his medium. Be his machine. Do not think much. Have faith in Him. He knows all. He is just waiting for you to identify him. He does not reveal himself in scriptures. He reveals himself directly to the seeker. The books written about the saints are written by men. Nanak did not speak to appease the people. He was rather chiding the people. Did Chaitanya care what the people were saying about him? People call such people as mad. They call Hitler an oppressor. They praise Mahatma Gandhi. But try to see the clippings. What message do they give? Was not Nehru as great as Gandhi was? People would like to call Mahatma Gandhi a saint but not Nehru. The simple soldier who dies on the border is not the saint but Gandhi is. This is what the fact is. Be a real soldier. Soldier dies may be for his bread or his nation. He is called a martyr. He is not called a saint. So do not think much what the scriptures say. Believe in yourself. Believe it that you have discovered the real truth. Achieve the uncharted success. Buddha claims to have learned about the real truth. Mahavira claimed to have learned about the real truth. But in what form do you find their followers. The Jains are rich. What actually do they do? They are sought not because they are the followers of Jainism but because of their money. Where are the Buddhists? They are admired because they had the esoteric powers. What about Tibet? Is Buddha not helping them? Is Shangila of no help to them?

Keep on reading more and more history. Just do not remain confined to Indian history. Learn about the history of other nations and other people. Learn about other subjects also.

Develop the idea given in this write up. Do not get worried my what is happening between you and them. Just believe in yourself. ---------------------------------------- (Personal lines omitted). Why do you wait that God would do the justice? ------------------ (Personal Lines omitted). Do you see that schemer? It seems that he also have the similar thoughts. It is why that when he has to attend to his agenda he justifies his entire act in the name of necessity.

Why do you try the unimaginable today? Be strict with your self also. ARE YOU READY?
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Old Bag

Expression on History reading. Wednesday, July 11, 2001

I read about Peter of Russia from Fisher. What is written on him? It was a story of a man who did not have virtue. He had the courage. He lived to kill.


What actually is recorded in history? it is always similar type of records. They are the records of the men who had invaded, oppressed killed and ravaged. They are admired even for their inhuman acts. They are shown to have brought civilization towards perfection.

What is happening even today? There are rich and poor people. There are oppressed and oppressors. The system of government virtually suffocates. It is not for the benefit of the man. It is just providing a situation in which you can live for the next day. If you want to achieve something you should be oppressive, scheming and lucky. If you are not lucky then you just cry because of the pain. Riots take place. People are killed. A man with money ride over you. People try to acquire power not because they have divine origin but it is useful to be in power. The human beings keep on living under the mirage of living a better tomorrow. The saints fool you. They say that god is there so be nice.
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Old Bag

Thoughtless Me Or HE

Inspite of the earlier experiences, the man is prone to repeat his mistakes. It is mark of some a major flaw in the personality of the person. The main reasons of such causes are his earlier training and experiences especially form his childhood years. When the man becomes mature, he realises and discovers the flaws but he finds it difficult to overcome them.

The solution to his problems can only be found in the strict discipline.

Other way out is stoic approach to one own self.

The third approach is the psychological approach.

In any case, only his own will power can provide the protection from the maladies from which the man is suffering. The question of will power is bit mystic in nature. It takes one to the question of God. God worship then becomes one more solution. The god affairs give the hint of delays. It does not result into immediate result and rather it works with lot of procrastination, which rather increase the problem of the man.

In defence of God, it can be said that the creator does not go against his own creation. The laws, which he had made, he permits them to work and does not interfere in them. If the person is suffering from the maladies, it is he who is to blame.

But the person would like to ask the question, that first of all why he was not informed of the liabilities of the action on his part. He would like to argue that if he was doing any thing as per the law of the nature and then why was there no caution. Why was he not told about the language by which he could judge and understand the liabilities? Why are the remedies so difficult? Why are the remedies not readily made available to him? All these questions have strength and validity.

It seems that the human existence is a punishment. In it, there is chance of partiality. Some of the people get the access to the remedies and easily get themselves absolved of their liabilities and others are intentionally made to suffer. Why does every one not get the food? Why minimum required facilities are not available to every one? Why am I better than him but worst than him? It seems that even the God is not fully perfect.

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Old Bag