What is the difference between 10w 40 vs 20w 40 engine oil?
Motor oils have different grade and always stick to whatever grade is mentioned in the bike manual.Motor oils have aWx grade. W stands for winter that means the value of a will be the viscosity of your engine oil at the moment your bike starts from a standstill. Whereas, once your engine gets heated up, the oil changes its viscosity to the x grade. The higher the grade the more viscous oil will be.So for 10W40 oil, when your engine is cool it will have a 10 grade viscosity. Once your engine is hot, the oil will become thicker (40 grade in viscosity).It is very much needed to give your engine enough lubrication.If you use a wrong grade oil for your bike, then in the long run your engine will be damaged soon.For almost All Pulsars, Bajaj recommends 20W50 oil.Suggestion - Try to go for Mineral motor oils (with frequent engine oil change) rather than semi synthetic or synthetic ones.I have used myriad of engine oils for my Pulsar and my personal favorite is Motul.Source :Google.
Which is better: India or Pakistan?
This is my perspective as an American of Indian descent having lived in India and having followed foreign relations of both countries with Pakistan. India and Pakistan have bifurcated substantially in governance and nation building. Who is better depends on the paths chosen. The answer will become very evident.Following are a few quick bullet points that will allow you to get a pulse on India and Pakistan.India is a haven for IT or Information Technology companies.Pakistan is also a haven for IT but for International Terrorists. Example: Osama Bin Laden.India uses technology to launch satellites to advance its E-commerce, improve agriculture by predicting weather patterns and more. It has successfully sent an Orbiter to Mars.Pakistan first plagiarized then proliferated nuclear technology to North Korea.India is a democracy. Any Indian child can aspire to become the Prime Minister or the President of India.Pakistan is a military-theocracy-democracy. Pakistani constitution forbids a Pakistan-born Hindu, Christian, Sikh, or Ahmadi Muslim (not considered Muslim in Pakistan) or any other non-Muslim person to become the Prime Minister or President of Pakistan.Indian Military is under civilian authority.Pakistan civilian government is under Military authority.India focuses primarily on its economy and the betterment of its people.Pakistan has its prime focus on Kashmir, Islam, and nuclear weapons.Indians overseas are proud of their identity and roots.Pakistani Americans pass themselves as Indians sometimes.India helped and housed 10 million refugees that poured from East Pakistan in 1971.Pakistan Military killed millions of its own citizens in 1971 before Bangladesh was born.India is a responsible nation and has good relations and trade agreements with other countries. The US and China are India’s largest trading partners.Pakistan is isolated internationally. It doesn’t have much choice but to accept China’s high-handed, one-way trade agreements.Pakistan lags both India and Bangladesh (all three were part of one British India) in the Human Development Index.Who is better? You be the judge.As an Indian, Pakistan was never my yard-stick.
What are the most intriguing paintings based on famous poems? Include the painting and the pertinent lines from the poem.
This is American painter Charles Demuth's 1928 painting, Figure 5 in Gold.It's inspired by The Great FigureBy William Carlos Williams Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.This painting, Beata Beatrix, is by English Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Painted in 1870, it was inspired by Dante Aligheri's poem La Vita Nouva (1295) and depicts Beatrice Portinari. Rossetti himself translated the poem and published it. For the painting, Rosetti painted Elizabeth Siddal, his wife who had died eight years earlier.Here's a passage from La Nouva Vita that seems relevant:But only with such hearts as women's are. And I will say, — still sobbing as speech fails, — That she hath gone to Heaven suddenly, And hath left Love below, to mourn with me. Beatrice is gone up into high Heaven, The kingdom where the angels are at peace; And lives with them ; and to her friends is dead. Not by the frost of winter was she driven Away, like others ; nor by summer-heats ;But through a perfect gentleness, instead. For from the lamp of her meek lowlihead Such an exceeding glory went up hence That it woke wonder in the Eternal Sire, Until a sweet desire Enter'd Him for that lovely excellence. So that He bade her to Himself aspire: Counting this weary and most evil place Unworthy of a thing so full of grace. Wonderfully out of the beautiful form Soar'd her clear spirit, waxing glad the while ; And is in its first home, there where it is. Who speaks thereof, and feels not the tears warm Upon his face, must have become so vile As to be dead to all sweet sympathies.