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"

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Capitalism has given way to Corporate Bureaucracy

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Published in The New Yorker November 20, 2006 Artist: P.C. Vey "The dominant role of the corporation in modern society is one such f...

Path to progress is sprinkled with blood

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Every word was a poem once. Every step by a bipedal man a rhythmic dance. But probably no one died attempting them. Not all inventors were t...

Who is looking surprised?

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Climate change is upon us. We all know it. Every summer is hotter, every monsoon weirder, every winter more elusive. It has been a long time...

Detainee Orange of Guantánamo Bay

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Published in The New Yorker September 27, 2004 Artist: Robert Mankoff Guantánamo Bay is one of the darkest chapter in America's war on ...

Outsourcing- Trouble in Paradise

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Published in The New Yorker August 30, 2004 Published in The New Yorker August 30, 2004 Artist: Drew Dernavich Outsourcing has got under sk...

Who is responsible for Iraq?

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Iraq is a defining moment of our life time. It will reverberate for a long time, the way Vietnam war and Indian partition still do. But who ...

Snake Oil salesmen-----politicians

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Politicians can go to any length selling us dreams. This is how George Bush sold Iraq war to Americans. It will give you fresh minty breath...

Television-I

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This is first among surely many on TV. David Foster Wallace: "TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose th...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

damn robin!

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Artist: Peter Arno Published in New Yorker in April 1930 This picture is perhaps most incisive anti-war commentary I saw in such a small s...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

What is enough?

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Artist : Robert Kraus Published in The New Yorker July 1960 The man who invented fire has come under "fire" from a fellow hunt...
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