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"

Friday, September 07, 2007

Attending Nature's Call Before Going on Rampage

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Vasant Sarwate वसंत सरवटे has drawn some penetrating pictures of crowds of Mumbai . Here is one of my favourite- Marching through public ur...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Languages that are understood all over the Country

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U.R. Ananthamurthy says ( India Today, August 20, 2007 ): “The only two languages that are understood all over the country are the Ramayan...
Monday, September 03, 2007

Obelix: These Archaeology Professors are Crazy!

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Obelix , my most favourite ' Asterix ’ character would certainly say this after reading what Asian Age September 3, 2007 reports: “ ...
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...
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