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."

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

गोव्याचे पंडित महादेवशास्त्री जोशी यांची दोन्ही लग्ने महाराष्ट्रात का झाली? Portuguese Civil Code1906

१९०६ साली आंबेडे , गोवा येथे जन्मलेले पंडित महादेवशास्त्री जोशी साधारण १९२१ साली पहिल्यांदा चतुर्भुज झाले ... ते लग्न गोव्यात होऊ शकले नाही कारण गोव्याचे कायदे , सोबतचा  जोशींच्या आंत्मचरित्रातील मजकूर वाचा ... ते लग्न  वाळपई, साखळी जवळच्या ओझरे  या संस्थांनी गावी ब्रिटिश हद्दीत झाले ... 


 (पृष्ठ ७५-७६, '।। आत्मपुराण||' , १९८५-२००९)

त्यांची पत्नी त्याच्या अथक प्रयत्नानंतर सुद्धा क्षयाने वारली आणि त्याचे दुसरे लग्न झाले (१९३० च्या आगेमागे, ते सुद्धा  ब्रिटिश हद्दीत ... 

they had to walk a lot from the border of Goa to reach their wedding place, Joshi was walking and his soon to be bride was being carried on someone's shoulder! Finally still short by a mile, they gave up and got married in Goa in evening right in the face of Portuguese civil code....

if you google for such kind of information including using AI tools as I did, you will never know the practical problems Joshi describes , but here they are ...

Key Aspects of the Portuguese Civil Code Regarding Marriage, 1910:

Civil Contract: Marriage is recognized as a civil contract rather than a religious one, secularizing the institution and allowing for divorce.

Registration: All marriages, both Catholic and non-Catholic, must be mandatorily registered with the civil registrar.

Age of Marriage: The legal age to marry is 21 for both men and women, though this can be waived with the consent of a guardian for minors.

 What this does not say is- what Joshi  informs - provision of mandatory smallpox inoculation...no google search in Sept 2025 pointed to this...

It's also interesting to note that none of this was applicable in British occupied India! 

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