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, June 17, 2007

Stature surfeit

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Paul Krugman observes Americans are turning shorter (NYT June 15 2007). He quotes: "height is indicative of how well the human organis...

Muumuu looks pretty only by candlelight!

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A trend seems to have emerged in Pune (and perhaps many other places in India) over last couple of decades: Middle-class women wearing nig...
Friday, June 15, 2007

We're Not Speaking the Same Language

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Services in India suck. More and more so. Rookies who understand almost nothing about the big picture of the business they work for largely ...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

What is in the address?...A lot

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Pune and a few other parts of Maharashtra , where Marathi is still spoken to conduct daily business, have some weird practices. One of the...

How to solve any problem…American way?

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Elite (or is it just nouveau rich?) Indians looked towards UK for approval until about 1970’s and since then US has replaced UK. Many (if ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

For Just Kicking Dust or the Sheer Joy of it?

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For all the wrong reasons, Indian cricket seems to be in the news (this week- " Graham Ford on Monday announced that he has declined a...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Patenting Some Obvious Thing will Raise Inequity in the World

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Bill Gates at Harvard on June 7 2007 told graduating students: ”……I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the wo...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

Are women at the mercy of biology?

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Since Victorian era began in England, in India- let alone sex-mentioning women’s monthly periods became taboo. It was not so in medieval tim...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

Putting the Skinned Knees Back Into Playtime

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During my school days (1965-1975) at Miraj , I wore shoes or chappals only reluctantly because they were a hindrance to free movement. Ther...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

How six-day war “victory” metamorphosed into forty-year (and counting) war…. India are you listening?

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This month six-day war is seeing its 40th anniversary. It was a huge event in 1967. I was only seven years old but I still remember some of ...
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