मेघदूत: "नीचैर्गच्छत्युपरि 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: "… . . 1000 नंतर ज्या प्रकारची संस्कृती रुढ झाली , त्यामध्ये साधारणत्व विश्वात्मकता हे गुण प्राय: लुप्त झाले...आपली संस्कृती अकाली विश्वात्मक साधारणतेला मुकली आहे."

Thursday, December 29, 2016

फेसबुकावरील स्मारके ....Memorials on Facebook

I have created Facebook pages dedicated to some of my favourite writers and artists. Over the years, I have created a few pages on English Wikipedia too.

Here I have listed FB pages in alphabetic order. (Please note that my father: Gopal Dutt Kulkarni and Vasant Sarwate are very much alive!)

p.s. After I had completed writing the post, Sarwate died on December 24 2016.



Facebook page Address Likes as of Dec 29 2016
1 B S Mardhekar& Co बा. सी. मर्ढेकर आणि कंपनी https://www.facebook.com/myBaSeeMardhekar/?ref=bookmarks 909
2 D G Godse, A Search शोध द. ग. गोडसेंचा https://www.facebook.com/MastaniDaGaGodse/?ref=bookmarks 356
3 Dinanath Dalal (In Marathi: दीनानाथ दलाल) https://www.facebook.com/artistdinanathdalal/?ref=bookmarks 2329
4 Durga Bhagwat An Appreciation दुर्गा भागवत एक आस्वाद https://www.facebook.com/durgabhagwatappreciation/?ref=bookmarks 1341
5 G A Kulkarni, An Appreciation जी ए कुलकर्णी, एक आस्वाद https://www.facebook.com/myGAKulkarni/?ref=bookmarks 874
6 Gopal Dutt Kulkarni गोपाळ दत्त कुलकर्णी https://www.facebook.com/gopalduttkulkarni/?ref=bookmarks 3
7 Govindrao Tembe गोविंदराव टेंबे https://www.facebook.com/GovindraoTembe/?ref=bookmarks 639
8 My Sadanand Rege माझे सदानंद रेगे https://www.facebook.com/mySadanandRege/?ref=bookmarks 431
9 Natyachhatakar Diwakar नाट्यछटाकार दिवाकर https://www.facebook.com/NatyachhatakarDiwakar/?ref=bookmarks 78
10 R D Karve, Who? र. धों. कर्वे, कोण? https://www.facebook.com/rdkarve/?ref=bookmarks 813
11 Ram Ganesh Gadkari राम गणेश गडकरी https://www.facebook.com/RamGaneshGadkari/?ref=bookmarks 1612
12 Remembering C V Joshi चिं वि जोशींच स्मरण https://www.facebook.com/ChinViJoshi/?ref=bookmarks 44
13 Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, A View सेतु माधवराव पगडी, मला दिसलेले https://www.facebook.com/mySetuMadhavraoPagdi/?ref=bookmarks 963
14 Shripad Krushna Kolhatkar, The Greatest श्रीपाद कृष्ण कोल्हटकर https://www.facebook.com/ShripadKrushnaKolhatkar/?ref=bookmarks 502
15 T S Shejwalkar, Lest We Forget त्र्यं. शं. शेजवलकर, विसरलो का? https://www.facebook.com/HistorianShejwalkar/?ref=bookmarks 307
16 The Art of Vasant Sarwate वसंत सरवटे यांची कला https://www.facebook.com/vasantsarwateappreciation/?ref=bookmarks 893
17 Two Brothers in Tandem-R K - Narayan & Laxman https://www.facebook.com/Two-Brothers-in-Tandem-R-K-Narayan-Laxman-283141975063419/?ref=bookmarks 24
18 Vilas Sarang, a literary critic विलास सारंग, टीकाकार https://www.facebook.com/vilassarangcritic/?ref=bookmarks 305
19 Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade विश्वनाथ काशिनाथ राजवाडे https://www.facebook.com/VishwanathKashinathRajwade/?ref=bookmarks 1155
20 Who was M V Dhond? कोण बर हे म. वा. धोंड? https://www.facebook.com/MaVaDhond/?ref=bookmarks 14
21 य दि फडके, एक वाटाड्या Y D Phadke, A Guide https://www.facebook.com/yadiphadkeaguide/?ref=bookmarks 7