Necessary Looking

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,500+ 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"... श्रीमंत बाळासाहेब पंतप्रतिनिधी : "बहुश्रुतता असल्याशिवाय सुसंस्कृतता नाही"

Monday, September 28, 2009

At Pokhran-II, did they swear or remember Bhagavad Gita?

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John Gray: "Towards the end of his life Oppenheimer turned against the Bhagavad Gita's philosophy of detachment, which had co...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

I'm a respectable Social Democrat. I sort of like Pawar, Thackeray U, Chavan, Munde, or Thackeray R.

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Dr. B R Ambedkar : “Democracy in India is only a top dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic... On the 26th January 19...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

When will our Cartoonists Evolve?

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V S Naipaul has called Bal Thackeray a failed cartoonist. (India: A Wounded Civilization,1977) The Times of India reported on August 6 2009...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

भो पंचम जॉर्ज, भूप, धन्य धन्य!

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In last post, we visited the first decade of 20th century. Will continue there a bit longer... Then my mother's mother, Manu Karandikar,...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

C V Joshi's Bheema Shaligram, Plague in Pune, Swine Flu

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NICHOLAS WADE: "...the Black Death felled at least 30 percent of those it inflicted, whereas a modern plague in India that struck Bo...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

यथा मनुष्यं च मोबाईलं च

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One of my favourite shloka श्लोक from Ramayana रामायण is: "यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महार्णवे। समेत्य तु व्यपेयातां कालमासाद्य कंच...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hurry to proclaim Victory in the face of Failure?

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Recently, in August 2009 , I watched a program on Discovery Channel about the space shuttle Columbia disaster. It was done candidly. There ...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Nimdu Kirana Gharana, namdu Kirana angadi

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Bhimsen Joshi once famously told Gangubai Hangal : Nimdu Kirana Gharana , namdu Kirana angadi. (Yours is Kirana Gharana, mine is kirana sh...
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Friday, September 04, 2009

Tiger-infested Nallamalla or Human-infested Earth?

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While reporting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S R Reddy's accident, The Times of India's headline on September 3, 2009 reads: ...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Why did liberal D G Godse sketch for V D Savarkar's book?

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V D Savarkar: "I have no quarrel with Mr Jinnah's two-nation theory. We Hindus are a nation by ourselves and it is a historical fa...
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