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"

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Europe- from Jurassic Park to Disneyland?

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European Union completed 50 years in 2007. What next for Europe? Walter Laqueur has recently written a book titled “The Last Days of Europ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The wealthy always take what they want

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FT has publihsed a review of Joe Studwell’s book “ Asian Godfathers ”. by Victor Mallet . Nothing about businessmen these days surprise me ...

Was CIA behind all of India’s problems?

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That is what Mrs. India Gandhi had us believe in 1970s. Elite institutions were supposed to be infiltrated by CIA agents. For example, a fe...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

Fire and Pollution Got Invented Together!

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Coal , the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, is responsible for nearly 40 percent of American emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenh...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

“Sarpa Dosha” of Sachin Tendulkar & H D Deve Gowda and “Manushya Dosha” of Poor Snakes

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India’s ex-Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda did a daylong ‘homa’ at his residence on July 4 to ward off ‘ sarpa dosha’ reports Times of India ...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Dr. Ramadoss, Kashmir Valley’s trouble is not psychiatric

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Times of India July 4, 2007 reports Indian Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss saying: “We have just 3,300 psychiatrists in the country...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Reading “Robinson Crusoe” on a Mumbai Local

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There is a cliché about Mumbai locals. “They’re Mumbai’s life-line”. May be. But more than that I think they define Mumbai more than any th...
Monday, July 02, 2007

Is there a Mrs. R D Karve?

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Raghunath Dhondo Karve (1882-1953) remains one of the most fascinating characters of 20th century India . On July 1, 2007, Doordarshan sho...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

Chandamama, Amar Chitra Katha and My Juvenile Dreams

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I was a voracious reader in my childhood. For recreation, I read only Marathi until I was almost 12 or 13. Magazine “ Chandoba ” (“ Chanda...
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What has your Beer Drinking to do with Groundnut Oil Prices?

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I am like a squirrel. Peanuts are my most favourite food. Next only to Payari and Hapus mangoes. I can eat them in any form- raw, roasted, f...
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