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"

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Self-absorption makes V S Naipaul caricature of himself

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V S Naipaul willynilly became poster boy of Hindutva brigade during NDA administration in India. (The brigade perhaps didn't include Sh...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Maharashtra Farmers Just Sit and Chew Tobacco?

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On September 9, 2007 , Union textile minister Shankarsinh Vaghela said farmers of Vidarbha were themselves to be blamed for their plight. H...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Of Dying Kittens and Rajasthani Girls

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For the past several weeks, two stray female kittens had made our home their playground. We fell in love with them. I was coming in close c...
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Monday, September 10, 2007

Human Story is NOT a March Toward some Culminating Idea

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David Brooks has written a beautiful essay-“ Where History Reigns”-for NYT May 8, 2007. He writes: “…History, in the British public cultu...
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...
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