F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?

#176 by arjun_m on April 12, 2005 12:47pm PT
#175 by cayenne on April 12, 2005 11:30am PT


Every working citizen in india is now being issued a PAN card


A hi-tech PAN card is as useful to you as grandma`s big teeth were to little red riding hood....

..........I pray you`re not another NRI, up to your tuckus in debt, with a mortgage.or , you might be the bigger loser of all, the recent work permit coolie.You`re gonna end up nowhere.I think you are the latter.I feel sorry for you and your kind.

Re: # 173
not at all. i can assure you i am not the fanatic that shri arjun and shri harish are. quite the opposite. a hundred people on this board will testify to who the fanatic among me and shri arjun and shri harish. just read shri arjun`s iLog, and you`ll see who hates who for the sake of hating. i just feel it necessary to place my boot in strategic positions of arjun`s hairy ass so that he knows what he`s actually worth. the same goes for his boyfriend. but then again, i always enjoy it, and always come out on top. so its a win win for me. :) regards,

#178 by taqat-e-parvaaz on April 12, 2005 8:54pm PT

reading your post makes me want to go out for a bacon cheeseburger...wonder why that is...

re:#175 by cayenne
Chill out guy.
India is finally reaping some good benefits of sticking to freemarket economy for a decade or so but make no mistake, it is still a very poor country. In fact, it is gut-wrenchingly poor. I only have to step out of the Airport everytime i visit India to know that i am right.
It will take at least 25 years for India to become a decent middle class country (that is if it sticks to present pace of development and does not end up in war with Pak).
One of my surgical colleagues visited India (Gujarat) about a year ago. His first impression was that there were a lot of homeless people.
You are talking only about some middle class people reaping the benefit but the benefit has not yet percolated into smaller cities and rural hinderland, where the masses of India live.
Sridhar

#180 by rsridhar on April 13, 2005 6:36pm PT
re:#175 by cayenne
Chill out guy.
India is finally reaping some good benefits of sticking to freemarket economy for a decade or so but make no mistake, it is still a very poor country. In fact, it is gut-wrenchingly poor..


......Maybe it is your kind that goes looking for `homeless people` and poverty to justify and feel smug about your loser decisions to become second hand citizens in another country.With the construction boom in india, manual labor is best utilized and therefore shanty towns near construction sites is a familair sight.Infact , city admins are making concerted efforts to prevent human migration from rural to urban areas and containing the spread of slums.Even existing ones are being broken up.Every foreigner(other than indian) i have bumped into are amazed at the changes , positive and negative, going on in india.Even the poor man`s car, the Maruti 800, comes equipped with a/c and other features and the main purchasers of these low end vehicles are town and rural populations.

My dad purchased a Chevrolet Optra last week.The dealer didn`t have a demo available when we visited the dealership, they were all out, and we were in a hurry.The dealership apologised and arranged for a test drive the next day.And, guess what??.The dealer drove the car home and allowed us to test it on any kind of road we wanted to.The car which was offered with a discount, cost the same as the similar mid-size Chevrolet in the US, and was equipped with power windows and radio cassette , a/c standard.The cost Rs 6.5 lacs, tax, title and insurance included.GM India is peddling about 1500 of these cars a month, which is way below what other manufacturers like Maruti, Hyundai India, Opel India,Ford India et al are selling for their similar sized models.

Lack of hygiene, civic sense, social responsibility are things we still have to work on, but as far as money, there`s a lot of it in india now and even the poor are not penniless.Far from it!!.They spend it differently from the middle and upper middle classes.That`s all.

good one shri arjun...did you think of that all by yourself, or were you being pleasured by shri hashish and he helped you out with that? must have really wracked your pea for that!! man, you are a genius!