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« on: June 14, 2012, 08:17:03 AM »
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« on: May 29, 2012, 04:49:09 AM »
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« on: May 27, 2012, 01:05:23 AM »
Footbinding was a custom practised on young females for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. In Chinese foot binding, young girls’ feet, usually at age 6 but often earlier, were wrapped in tight bandages so that they could not grow and develop normally; they would, instead, break and become highly deformed, not growing past 4-6 inches (10-15 cm). Today, it is a prominent cause of disability among some elderly Chinese women.
First, each foot would be soaked in a warm mixture of herbs and animal blood. This concoction caused any necrotised flesh to fall off. Then her toenails were cut back as far as possible to prevent ingrowth and subsequent infections. To prepare her for what was to come next the girl’s feet were delicately massaged. Silk or cotton bandages, ten feet long and two inches wide, were prepared by soaking in the same blood and herb mix as before. Each of the toes were then broken and wrapped in the wet bandages, which would constrict when drying, and pulled tightly downwards toward the heel. There may have been deep cuts made in the sole to facilitate this.
What is clear is that foot binding was first practiced among the elite and only in the wealthiest parts of China, which suggests that binding the feet of well-born girls represented their freedom from manual labor. This implied that the future husbands of such girls could afford wives who did not need to work, who existed solely to serve their men and direct household servants while performing no labor themselves.
Bound feet was a mark of beauty that became a prerequisite for finding a husband, as well as an avenue for poorer women to marry into money. Women, their families, and their husbands took great pride in tiny feet, with the ideal length, called the “Golden Lotus”, being about 7 cm (3 inches) long. This pride was reflected in the elegantly embroidered silk slippers and wrappings girls and women wore to cover their feet. Walking on bound feet necessitated bending the knees slightly and swaying to maintain proper movement and balance, a dainty walk that was also considered sexually enticing to men.
A year after the Communists came to power in 1949, they issued their own ban on footbinding. According to the American author William Rossi, who wrote The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe, 40 percent to 50 percent of Chinese women had bound feet in the 19th century. For the upper classes, the figure was almost 100 percent. Some estimate that as many as 2 billion Chinese women broke and bound their feet to attain this agonizing ideal of physical perfection.
Some scholars say footbinding deepened female subjugation by making women more dependent on their men folk, restricting their movements and enforcing their chastity, since women with bound feet were physically incapable of venturing far from their homes. Most of Liuyicun's bound-feet women were forced to perform hard physical labor in the late 1950s, digging reservoirs, for example — work which was punishing enough for ordinary women, but agonizing for those with tiny, misshapen feet.
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« on: May 26, 2012, 05:08:12 AM »
Did you know ?
If you press "!" in the Yahoo logo on Yahoo.com Home page. You can hear group of girls saying "Yahooooo" !!!
( it doesnt work in yahoo india it works in yahoo US , type us.yahoo.com and try it )  The world's longest over water bridge is Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in china. It is 41.58 kilometres (25.4 miles) long!! It is so long that you could run a marathon and a half and still not reach the other side!! 
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« on: May 15, 2012, 06:13:21 AM »
tusi na hatyo :D: :D:
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« on: May 15, 2012, 06:11:17 AM »
yup :pagel:
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« on: May 15, 2012, 06:09:52 AM »
Thanx :)
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« on: May 15, 2012, 06:01:10 AM »
You feel like a clown? Or look like a clown?
did you read what is written there?
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« on: May 15, 2012, 05:29:11 AM »
Everyone's story.
same thoughts here :smile:
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« on: May 15, 2012, 05:23:34 AM »
Everyone sees who I appear to be, but no one know d real me... You only see what I choose to show, there's so much behind this smile...
U don't even know...!! 
1111
« on: May 15, 2012, 04:59:48 AM »
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« on: May 12, 2012, 06:53:46 AM »
.  ... . 
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« on: May 12, 2012, 06:51:35 AM »
Hahaha nice nice. The creator must be half german, half indian
Creator is pure desi. :superhappy: :superhappy:
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« on: May 09, 2012, 07:40:34 AM »
hahah oye kini creative video a :D: nice a bai :D:
thanx. :superhappy: :superhappy:
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« on: May 09, 2012, 07:36:03 AM »
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« on: May 09, 2012, 07:23:40 AM »
.  ... . 
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« on: May 09, 2012, 06:11:05 AM »
Kangaroo
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Multiply
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« on: May 01, 2012, 08:25:54 PM »
Gurdwara Patti Sahib also called Gurdwara Maulvi Patti Likhi (‘Patti’ means a wooden board on which children learn to write alphabets with a pen made of a soft stem. The board could be washed after the lesson and would be given another coating of soft light clay and is re-used) is located at the site where young Guru Nanak learned the various different languages mainly Persian and Arabic which were then used in the Punjab, each with its own distinct alphabet.
This sacred shrine lies midway between Gurdwara Janam Asthan and Gurdwara Bal Lilah along the road leading from Janam Asthan to the railway station in Nankana Sahib. The city has been renamed after its most famous native son Guru Nanak. Once known as the village of Talwandi the town is located in West Punjab, Pakistan.
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« on: May 01, 2012, 05:11:55 AM »
Agan Bhet sewa of birdh swaroop of
shri guru granth sahib ji Saroop which
are either too old or damaged and any mistake during printing are
cremated with full devotion. This
ceremony is called AGAN BHET SEWA.
NOW THIS SEWA IS DONE IN DIFFERENT
PARTS OF INDIA AND ABROAD
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« on: April 22, 2012, 12:26:22 AM »
hasmukh di husmukhi da kise nu pta hi ni aje :D: :D:
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