Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,100+ posts...This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी"...George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."
मेघदूत: "नीचैर्गच्छत्युपरि च दशा चक्रनेमिक्रमेण"
समर्थ शिष्या अक्का : "स्वामीच्या कृपाप्रसादे हे सर्व नश्वर आहे असे समजले. पण या नश्वरात तमाशा बहुत आहे."
G C Lichtenberg: “It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy.”
C. P. Cavafy: "I’d rather look at things than speak about them."
Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed; moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic — Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act);...”
सदानंद रेगे: "... पण तुकारामाची गाथा ज्या धुंदीनं आजपर्यंत वाचली जात होती ती धुंदी माझ्याकडे नाहीय. ती मला येऊच शकत नाही याचं कारण स्वभावतःच मी नास्तिक आहे."
".. त्यामुळं आपण त्या दारिद्र्याच्या अनुभवापलीकडे जाऊच शकत नाही. तुम्ही जर अलीकडची सगळी पुस्तके पाहिलीत...तर त्यांच्यामध्ये त्याच्याखेरीज दुसरं काही नाहीच आहे. म्हणजे माणसांच्या नात्यानात्यांतील जी सूक्ष्मता आहे ती क्वचित चितारलेली तुम्हाला दिसेल. कारण हा जो अनुभव आहे... आपले जे अनुभव आहेत ते ढोबळ प्रकारचे आहेत....."
Kenneth Goldsmith: "In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”1 I’ve come to embrace Huebler’s ideas, though it might be retooled as “The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours."
Tom Wolfe: "The first line of the doctors’ Hippocratic oath is ‘First, do no harm.’ And I think for the writers it would be: ‘First, entertain.’"
विलास सारंग: "… इ. स. 1000 नंतर ज्या प्रकारची संस्कृती रुढ झाली , त्यामध्ये साधारणत्व व विश्वात्मकता हे गुण प्राय: लुप्त झाले...आपली संस्कृती अकाली विश्वात्मक साधारणतेला मुकली आहे."
Saturday, August 15, 2009
The Battle of Black Hair: China 9, India 3!
“…Habits stretching back to imperial times influence the behaviour of the nine men in dark suits with uniformly full heads of black hair who make up the ruling standing committee of the politburo…”
Men...Dark Suits...Full Heads of Black hair
So boring.
India doesn’t have “the ruling standing committee of the politburo”.
Therefore, I decided to analyse the status of the top nine Indian political figures on gender, attire and head-hair.
Here is the result:
Name, Gender, Attire, Hair
Sonia Gandhi – female, saree or salwar-kameez, strands of grey hair
Rahul Gandhi- male, kurta-pyjama, full head of black hair
Manmohan Singh- male, kurta-pyjama, balding grey hair
Lal Krishna Advani-male, dhoti-kurta, balding grey hair
Mulayam Singh-male, dhoti-kurta, grey hair
Mamata Banerjee –female, saree, full head of black hair
Narendra Modi- male, kurta-pyjama-saffron shawl, grey hair
Mayawati – female, salwar-kameez, full head of black hair
Nitish Kumar –male, kurta-pyjama, grey hair
I take India's diversity any day.
2 comments:
How Maharashtra's Sharad Pavar is absent in these list top political fugures? How can you neglect him?
Mangesh
He is not in top 9 by some distance.
He is not first even in Maharashtra! First there is Uddhav Thackeray.
The principal criterion I have used is the strength of the party in the Lok Sabha.
S.No. Name of Party Member Leader
1 Indian National Congress(INC) 206 Shri Pranab Mukherjee
2 Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) 116 Shri L.K. Advani
3 Samajwadi Party(SP) 22 Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav
4 Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) 21 Shri Dara Singh Chauhan
5 Janata Dal (United)(JD(U)) 20 Shri Ram Sundar Das
6 All India Trinamool Congress(AITC) 19 Km. Mamata Banerjee
7 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(DMK) 18 Shri A.K.S. Vijayan
8 Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPI(M)) 16 -
9 Biju Janata Dal(BJD) 14 Shri Arjun Charan Sethi
10 Shiv Sena(SS) 11 Shri Anant G. Geete
11 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) 9 Dr. M. Thambidurai
12 Independent(Ind.) 9 .
13 Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) 9 Shri Sharad Pawar
source: http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/partywiselist.aspx
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