Manohar Malgonkar died on June 14 2010 and I came to know about it only today June 20 2010.
Shame on me and the media I follow.
I lapped up everything he wrote for The Statesman and Deccan Herald. I vividly remember his essay describing his visit to the Badami cave temples.
Like Khushwant Singh, he was one of the finest Indian writer of English prose after 1950's.
Every time I travelled from Miraj to Bangalore by a train, I knew he was not very far until train reached Hubli.
Now any where I go he will never be too far.
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."
Sunday, June 20, 2010
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You may like to read the editorial on late Shri Manohar Malgaonkar by Shri Paresh Prabhu of daily Navprabha on his blog site.
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Thanks for the suggestion, mangesh.
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