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"

Sunday, October 25, 2026

आठवणीतील चाफेकर वाडा...Chaphekar Wada, Miraj in 1960s-early 1980s

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C P Cavafy: .... It wouldn’t have lasted long anyway— the experience of years makes that clear. Even so, Fate did put an end to it a bit...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

We'll always have Paris?

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  Casablanca , 1942 artist: Vaughan Tomlinson
Thursday, October 15, 2026

Every generation invents a word for young people who look too happy to obey. Beatniks were one such word.

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  Movie poster from the 1959 crime drama, "The Rebel Set." Beatniks were the popular, slightly hostile media label for people ...
Monday, October 12, 2026

The Hite Report@50 and Male Vanity Including My Own

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 Stephen Jay Gould, 'Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History': "...As women have known since the dawn of our tim...
Friday, October 09, 2026

Nikhil's Father@100...Ramesh Sakharam Benegal

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  Ramesh Sakharam Benegal on meeting Netaji in 1944: "We were made to stand in front of our rooms as Netaji had expressed his wish to m...
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

George Gross Did Not Need Scantily Clad Damsels

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  artist: George Gross (1909-2003)   This is pulp — but it is intelligent pulp , and that distinction matters. even without the bodies , th...
Saturday, October 03, 2026

Leonard Starr's Everyday Happiness...

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    artist: Leonard Starr (1925-2015) First: what strikes the eye immediately This is joy without irony . The woman is unselfconscious , ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

हे चित्र शरीर दाखवत नाही; ते क्षण दाखवतं. आणि क्षण — नेहमीच धोकादायक असतात....Art of Gene Bilbrew- This Moment Cannot Last

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  artist: Gene Bilbrew (1923-1974) Gene Bilbrew  was one of the finest magazine illustrators of mid-20th-century America. He worked in a wor...
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