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"

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Only True Test of Artistic Merit is Survival

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After Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died, Toby Young wrote an essay for The Spectator (August 11, 2007) " Keep your wild ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

What Colour Band-Aids for Dalits?

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Many upper-caste Hindus – sympathetic to the plight of the untouchables over centuries- often complain about their inability to ‘understand...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Ramsevaks Reflect

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India keeps churning out news faster than we all can digest. Ram once again is in news: “Did he really exist or not?” Ram and his story are...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

WORLD CAR-FREE DAY is on September 22

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The Economist June 8 2006 “ The dirty sky ”: “…cars—potent symbols of individualism (and, some would say, individual selfishness)—“. I don...
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...
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