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 26, 2007

Many Indians surely watched their first lynching in 1947

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We Indians are obsessed with sex but don’t wish to talk about it. Sex is not the only such subject. There are few more touchy subjects from...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Patient with India, forever?

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Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar wrote in his column for Times of India May 27, 2007: “…most of the government sector is third-class and tar...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Taj Mahal could be "a bloody hurdle in the middle of the road"

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"Scientific American" July 2007 has an article by Steve Mirsky “ An Earth Without People -A new way to examine humanity's imp...

Twisted Construction, Intricate Compounds and Linguistic Hell

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My 13 year old son Jaydutt Kulkarni goes to an English medium school at Pune and struggles, like most of his classmates, with Marathi lang...
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Sunday, July 15, 2007

Twelve years ago, everything was twelve years ago…..sigh…..Nostalgia

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Nicholas Carr: Nostalgia is nothing new. It has been a refrain of art and literature at least since Homer set Odysseus on Calypso's ...
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Saturday, July 14, 2007

What’s a girl’s marriageable age, asks SC

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This is Times of India’s headline on July 13, 2007. India’s Supreme court asked this question to the government after listening to a petit...

The End of Vaccines?

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The last chief of the Maratha Confederacy, Pune -based debaucherous Baji Rao II (1775-1851) has gone down in the history as one of the firs...
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...
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