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"

Monday, June 25, 2007

32 Years After The Emergency, Durga Bhagwat and Henry David Thoreau

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Thirty-two years ago, midnight today, the Emergency was declared in India . I remember the next day vaguely. For shouting slogans agains...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Americans, you peel Indian mangoes ONLY yourself for sheer pleasure and not because some stupid manual tells you so

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Indian mangoes seem to be now available in US. First, exports to middle-eastern countries made them expensive for people like me. Now, it i...
Friday, June 22, 2007

“A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time”, Taj Mahal will remain. Stop being rabid.

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The biggest threat to humanity never was global warming but always rabid nationalism of some kind and it will always remain so. History has ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Mount Everest the Overfull

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I liked my stay and travel to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh for their somnolence. There were empty parts of the day, of the week, of the year...

What is common to Bhopal’s MIC (Methyl Isocyanate) and Vietnam’s Agent Orange?

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Answer: MIC (Military-industrial complex) in general and Dow Chemical in particular. Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 killed between sixteen tho...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Sentimental Education

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Gurcharan Das wrote originative essay “Sentimental Education” in 2001 wherein he addressed the issue of leadership deficit. He says; “…. No...
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...
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