Looking at Cartoons, Getting Along

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,100+ 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"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Y D Phadke य दि फडके No More

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Yesterday afternoon I spoke to Vasant Sarwate . I thanked him for sending me two of his books. I read his obit of Ramesh Mantri रमेश मंत्री...
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Monday, December 31, 2007

Now, Here's My Plan...For 2008

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The Dalai Lama (August 1999): "For me, it is nothing. New millennium, or new century, or new year. For me is another day and night. The...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Faking Friends for Fame

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Times of India November 25, 2007 : “…Competition for friends can be so fierce that some have even resorted to faking friend lists. Sixteen-y...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Tilak-Agarkar Dogfight...Still Goes On

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This blog already commented on the abusive language used by Andhra Pradesh chief minister against his predecessor: “Why are you feeling...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Where is Suttee in the Barchart?

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This post is in memory of graceful Ms. Benazir Bhutto. I hope her death will marginalise extremists in Pakistan the way Mahatma Gandhi'...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Inflation Hurts Literature too! तानी मावशीचे दोन आणे.

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Christian Lorentzen, ‘Fictitious Values/ Boom and bust in twenty-first-century lit’, Bookforum, June/July/August 2012: "The banality of...
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...
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