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, September 02, 2007

Hope when Celebs Dress Down, they don’t meet a Gunman

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When I read history of British occupation of India , “jail” keeps popping up. Tilak, Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Nehrus, Azad and many, many more...
Saturday, September 01, 2007

A Barber who Shaves you in Silence, without Drawing a Word from your Mouth or sharing any Gossip, and Cursing no one, is not a Barber at all

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Guardian September 1, 2007 has reviewed Orhan Pamuk's “Other Colours: Essays and a Story” . I was delighted to read Pamuk dwelling at l...
Friday, August 31, 2007

Just One less Made-in-China thing?

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Reuters reported on August 29, 2007 : “Sand storms in northwest China are reducing sections of Great Wall to mounds of dirt and may cause t...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Were we Bean Counters even before Wheat Domesticated us?

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Wheat prices have been on the boil for a while now. Since March 31 this year, they are up by almost 52% in international markets. Business ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

The Clock of the Long Now promises to teach us to Wait for the Cuckoo to emerge

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Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span . The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, t...
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Bring on Bambooque of Avadh Punch because we still are "England Returned, newly-made gentleman & Noisy Jee-Huzoors"

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The Economist ((Oct 28th 2004) said: "In the 1830s, Lord Thomas Macaulay was a member of the British Supreme Council in India. His com...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

Barbie Defaults on Her Mortgage for Docking Station

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LOUISE STORY’s “ Barbie Gets Another Accessory: An MP3 Player and More Stuff on Her Web Site” ( NYT July 23, 2007 ) announces: “… Barbie ha...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Why women button their clothes from the left, and men from the right?

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Until I read review of Robert H. Frank's book " The Economic Naturalist" in July 2007 , I had not even noticed that women but...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Dousing Fires of Nationalism Lighted by Staging of Kichak-Vadh

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Do we learn anything from history at all? Or history is just one damn thing after another and hence to be ignored? I read ROGER COHEN ( IHT...

No use splitting up

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Asian Age Aug 15 2007 reports: “ Londoners like Delhiites think their bus drivers are rude and blundering.” In India , since we started ad...
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