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."
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
मी: "अंजु, किती गरम चहा ओतलायस ? जीभ भाजली ना..."
"Anju, how hot have you poured tea? Tongue is torched..."
(Open the picture in another browser window to get a clearer view of the news in the Marathi broadsheet* held by HIM.)
Artist: Vasant Sarwate (वसंत सरवटे), 1968
* the broadsheet he is reading has these news-items: "A quake in Iran kills 5,000 and injures thousands", "floods in Gujarat killing hundreds", "Boat capsizes" etc!
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It is the most appropriate and timely comment by Shri Vasantrao and now you on the recent world happenings. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMangesh
Thanks Mangesh.
ReplyDeleteSarwate is truly a great artist.
He will be relevant as long as quakes hit this planet and we remain as we are.