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"

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Why Ketkar-pedia (महाराष्ट्रीय ज्ञानकोश) Flopped but Wikipedia Booms?

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Brad DeLong said on December 24, 2007 : "blogging evangelist Dave Winer made a long bet with New York Times executive Martin Nisenhol...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Gods Are Us; A Scene from Our Heaven

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Reading numerous Puranas in my childhood, I used to wonder how Lord Indra gets away so lightly with all kinds of crimes- including adultery...
Monday, December 24, 2007

No Public Urinals? Then No Public Health, Colourful Graffiti & Free Medical Advice.

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Times of India December 11, 2007 decries inadequate number of public urinals in Pune . Just 352 for 3 Million people, one public urinal per...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

Dyeing Our Nasal Hair To Look Vivid and Bright

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For last few years, I have developed a strange habit. When I meet or see someone, I first look at his/ her hair to check if dye has been use...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Tom and Jerry in Stone. At Mamallapuram, 1300 Years ago.

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Frontline January 4, 2008 has a story on Mamallapuram ( Mahabalipuram ) as 10th part of a 25-part series on Indian art. Three things I enjo...
Friday, December 21, 2007

What is the Name of Your Stuffed Toy Tiger, Shoaib Akhtar?

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"What is the Name of Your Stuffed Toy Tiger, Shoaib Akhtar? Shoaib Akhtar?" Read above on lines of the famous dialogue from blockb...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Do We Use Hygiene to Make Caste Distinctions? Remembering Gadge Maharaj.

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Times of India December 18, 2007: "70,000 Chitpavans (a Brahmin sect) to congregate in city (Pune)." I was borne to Brahmin paren...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

White King Vs Red Queen: 1972 Regressed the Cause of Chess

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1972 was an exciting year for Chess. It was the first occasion in the 20th century when chess fired the public imagination. It surely did. ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Ugh! Marathi Films

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India Today December 17, 2007 talked about: " How India watches movies ". "...3.7 bn number of movie tickets sold in India ...
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Monday, December 17, 2007

Butterfly with Stinger - James McNeill Whistler and D G Godse द ग गोडसे

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Key to unravel great minds and their work often is to know what drove them - personalities, events etc. Great D G Godse द ग गोडसे , who stud...
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