Bharat Rakshak

Friends wife in sfo has been beset with serious back pains lately. She is doing all the usual back exercises now incl the waking dog, bow and superman pose. Exercise was only long term soln per physio, no magic meds to cure it. GD, i had replaced my office chair with stability ball, initially did g...

Singha sir, Thank you for the kind words. It was my left hamstring and right knee. At the medical tent they applied bio freeze / hot-cold cream for my hamstring. For my right knee, an ice wrap was put. It was secured in it's place by a generous amount of seran wrap. I carried a bottle belt, but i al...

Phew!!, completed my first marathon this Sunday. I was short on training, my longest run was 18 miles. I was following a training program which had 21 mile run 3 weeks before the big day. For one reason or other i could not get the 21 mile run done. I was close to dropping out due to no 20+ miles ru...

wong wrote:^^^
Pakistan had it ready for years. They decided long ago they would test when India tests.

Now its OT, admins please delete my post if it does not fit in the PRC Economy thread.

AQ Khan is not Chinese. Mr. Khan supplied the North Koreans and also the Libyans. The Iranians will tell you that enrichment is the hard part. I can get package designs from the Internet. Well sir, According to this article in usnews, the pakistani bomb is "made in china". AQ khan was a m...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2012/06/17/visit-chinas-changsha-see-worlds-tallest-building-2/ From the above article in forbes World's tallest building to come up in Changsha. originally planned a 666-meter skyscrapper, but the local government wanted the world’s tallest. That’s a dead gi...

We pay too much attention to people's feelings and what they think and not enough attention on the main goal which is making money and projecting positive image. Tell that to the hundreds of million of people who lives in slums and don't have enough food to get by daily that "you are paying to...

A Land Grab Epidemic: China’s Wonderful World of Wukans

from http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2012/02/07/a- ... e-atlantic

has your pulse rate increased by 20% ? it could just mean your body is responding to the flu by increasing metabolic activity to fight the invasion and needs more nutrition to cope with the usage rate. feeling hungry in the end stages of fighting off a fever is quite normal imo. thanks Singha, spok...

A quick question to the gurus

I am down with flue since last 4 days. What i have noticed is my appetite has gone up, i feel more hungry and eating 1.5 times the regular intake. Usually when people are sick their appetite goes down. I am going in the other direction. Any insight?

sha Can you enlighten me why 250,000 debt-riddenan farmers have killed themselves intead of fighting for their rights(protest, strike, vote, whatever) in great democratic India? Who heared their voice and why not do something to stop the tradegy so that the numers stop growing? Where were their vot...

You beat me!

Ahh, the irony

You got it this time. I never and ever deny the fact that China is still a very poor country.

I am glad you agree and perhaps in future you might think for a while before posting a hack job of an article.

I was raised in a poor rural family, so my heart always goes out to the poor . I'm very happy the great progress for poverty alliviation made in India. If there is something did dispoint me, it is the fact that 1.25 $ is at ppp price (=0.50$ nominal) aftrer surfing the web. I am sure it does and yo...

"Please read the India guys's talks above and the article below" sha, have you tired to check the "facts" in that article. Per world bank estimate 41.6% of the total Indian population falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day ( not 800 million with less than 0...