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."

Friday, July 28, 2017

साठ वर्षाचा एअर इंडियाचा प्रवास....Journey of Air India Since Jan 1958



Hindustan Times, June 8 2017: 
“Govt should have exited debt- laden Air India 15 years back: (Arun) Jaitley on privatisation: Air India has piled over Rs 50,000 crore of debt mainly because of high maintenance cost and lease rent. It barely made any operational profit in last decade except in FY16.”

Manavi Kapur, Business Standard, June 23 2017:
“...Though the international airport at New Delhi is always bustling with passengers, early mornings are a particularly busy time. Amid the frenzied activity is a slow-moving row of check-in desks that belong to Air India. A member of the prestigious Star Alliance, India’s national carrier also has the distinction of having one of the poorest and most outdated customer experiences.... The erstwhile Tata Airlines and brainchild of JRD Tata, Air India was nationalised by then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1953. These were its glory days, with a monopoly in the aviation industry and a fledgling customer base that was only just beginning to fly. While a seller’s market ensured it made money, a political milieu of trade and labour unions dictated much of its work culture....”

मराठी कथाकार कै . अरविंद गोखले (१९१९-१९९२) यांचे प्रवास वर्णन वाचले , वाङ्मय शोभाच्या जानेवारी १९५८च्या अंकातले...  टिप्पणी करायची गरजच नाही

हिस्टोरिकल पर्स्पेक्टिव्ह फार महत्वाचे असते.





२०१७मध्ये मुंबईचा विमानतळ कसा आहे (जगातील एक चांगला) आणि  एअर इंडिया कशी आहे!


courtesy: B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart 

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