एखादी देवता आपले मूल कडेवर घेऊन त्याच्याकडे मातृप्रेमाने पाहात आहे, असे तुला कधी दिसले आहे? ...Yes, G. A. -Sir

 जी. ए. कुलकर्णी, 'ऑर्फियस', "पिंगळावेळ", १९७७,  पृष्ठ १३:
"... एखादी देवता आपले मूल कडेवर घेऊन त्याच्याकडे मातृप्रेमाने पाहात आहे, असे तुला कधी दिसले आहे? नाही...."

 

Reading a Book that hasn’t been Written Yet

Today April 23 2023 is World Book Day.

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Nude Reading’

शाई संपली वाटते? प्रश्न मात्र नाही...Saul Steinberg and Vasant Sarwate

courtesy: Saul Steinberg

 कलाकार : वसंत सरवटे

मर्लिन मुनरो आणि विनोद खन्ना पाणी पिताना ....Marilyn Monroe and Vinod Khanna Drinking Outdoors

शोले हून मला किती तरी जास्त आवडलेला , राज खोसला यांचा मेरा गाव मेरा देश , १९७१... आम्ही असे घरात पडत असू पाण्याच्या समोर!

All the Gods and Mortals Once Sought it Together But....Honey

‘The Rig Veda: An Anthology: One hundred and eight hymns’  selected, translated and annotated by Wendy Doniger:

“I have tasted the sweet drink of life, knowing that it inspires good thoughts and joyous expansiveness to the extreme, that all the gods and mortals seek it together, calling it honey” (8:48, 1)

Sadie Stein, The Paris Review, March 2016:

“.....In some ways, honey’s rise seems more improbable, more like a triumph of marketing. Indeed, it gives all those current-day Stevia manufacturers reason to hope. Because at some point honey lost its reputation as a specialty ingredient. It became the only sweetening option available to Utah settlers. It became Pooh’s drug of choice; a crank’s hippie sweetener; and then, at last, a ubiquitous plastic bear available on every supermarket shelf for a few dollars, even though it proverbially lasts for eons. Here is a glamorous 1960s Bit-O-Honey commercial extolling its social virtues:

“Honey!” I said aloud when I laid eyes on the packets. A woman next to me looked up. “To think,” I said urgently. “It was in the pharaohs’ tombs! It was eaten by Nero! And here it is, free!”

She smiled politely—best-case scenario, really—and walked away, and of course I took sugar for my coffee...”

An ad for French honey

Artist: Unknown to me

The Son of Man In The Garden of Eden

#TheSonOfMan
 
Bob Mankoff, not just a damn good cartoonist but also a very good writer, said:
"...Magritte’s paintings didn’t draw the humorous fire of cartoonists until much later, in the eighties, but his “Son of Man” in particular has proven quite inspirational....
....Magritte’s work provides excellent grist for the cartoon mill because it’s weird, and the weirdness is usually limited to just one incongruous element that can be manipulated, like the apple in front of the guy’s face. The difference between the two art forms is how Magritte’s work does not attempt to resolve the incongruities it creates but rather revels in them, while cartooning creates revelry by making sense of the incongruous....."

 (on left)   The Son of Man, 1964 by René Magritte,   (on right) Cartoon by Sam Gross

When Frog Meets Stork.....Hans Andersen

1913 

Artist: W. Heath Robinson (1872- 1944) for Hans Andersen's fairy tales

धीरे धीरे मचल ऐ दिल-ए-बेक़रार...A Lady At The Piano

 

  Dheere-dheere machal ae dil-e-beqaraar (Anupama, 1966)

   'At the Piano' by  Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944)

Patenting of Things Found in Nature or of Trivial Business Processes

जून १० २००७ ला मी पेटंटिंग या विषयावर लिहल होत : "Patenting Some Obvious Thing will Raise Inequity in the World". 

 एप्रिल २०१८मध्ये ft.com वर मार्टीन वूल्फ लिखित हे वाचल : "Who creates a nation’s economic value?"

त्यातील काही वाक्य:

"It is not just finance that is in the dock. Mazzucato also attacks what is going on in more obviously beneficial sectors of the economy, such as information technology and pharmaceuticals. One of the problems here, she argues, is the award of overly generous or simply unjustifiable rights to intellectual property, such as the patenting of things found in nature or of trivial business processes"

Artist: Chon Day, The New Yorker, September 28 1940

फॉसबोल साहेबांना जर्मन म्हटलेल बहुदा आवडल नसत!...V. Fausboll's Ten Jatakas, 1872

 

आधुनिक काळात किमान तीन ग्रेट (आणि माझ्या आवडत्या) लोकांनी मराठीत जातक कथा आणल्या आहेत: धर्मानंद कोसंबी, चिं वि जोशी,  दुर्गा भागवत.... 

 

कै. धर्मानंद कोसंबी त्यांच्या पुस्तकाच्या प्रस्तावनेत म्हणतात: 

 

"...जातकट्ठकथा प्रसिद्धीला आणण्याच्या कामीं ज्यांनी परिश्रम केले त्यांत व्ही. फॉसबोल (V. Fausboll) ह्या जर्मन पंडिताला अग्रस्थान दिलें पाहिजे. जर्मनी कोठें आणि सिंहलद्वीप कोठें ! पण 'किं दूरं व्यवसायिनाम्' ह्या न्यायानें या गृहस्थानें तेथून सिंहली ताडपत्री पुस्तकें गोळा करून त्यांच्या आधारावर, दुसर्‍या कोणाचें साहाय्य नसतां, रोमन अक्षरांनी जातकट्ठकथा छापण्यास १८७७ सालीं आरंभ केला; व १८९६ साली हे काम संपविलें..."

 

पण फॉसबोल (1821-1908) तर डॅनीश होते. ते कोपनहेगन मध्ये संस्कृत शिकवायचे. 

 

अर्काइव्ह.ओआरजी (archive.org) येथे फॉसबोलांचे 'Ten Jatakas. The original Pali text with a translation and notes', 1872 हे पुस्तक उपलब्ध आहे. त्यात मला कुठेही जर्मन किंवा जर्मनीचा उल्लेख सापडला नाही. त्यात इंग्लीश आहे आणि रोमन लिपीत लिहलेले पाली आहे. 

 

विकिपीडिया डेन्मार्क बद्दल म्हणतो : 

"...A nascent Danish liberal and national movement gained momentum in the 1830s; after the European Revolutions of 1848, Denmark peacefully became a constitutional monarchy on 5 June 1849. A new constitution established a two-chamber parliament. Denmark faced war against both Prussia and Habsburg Austria in what became known as the Second Schleswig War, lasting from February to October 1864. Denmark was defeated and obliged to cede Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia. This loss came as the latest in the long series of defeats and territorial loss that had begun in the 17th century. After these events, Denmark pursued a policy of neutrality in Europe...."

 

फॉसबोल साहेबांना जर्मन म्हटलेल बहुदा आवडल नसत!