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"

Monday, January 28, 2008

My Letter to NEW Quest on V S Naipaul

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" New Quest " is a quarterly journal of participative inquiry into society and culture, launched by the late A.B.Shah. The journal...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Aficionados of R D Karve र धों कर्वे Rejoice

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The late Durga Bhagwat दुर्गा भागवत rates R D Karve र धो कर्वे next only to Mahatma Gandhi . She does it for his spearheading of important ...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Mahabharata Redux. On Iraq and On EBAY.

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Asian Age on January 24, 2008 reported: “ Bush lied 259 times.” “A study by two non-profit journalism organisations has found that Presiden...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Indian Stock Market Crash. Can Tragedy be Quietly Enjoyed?

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John Kenneth Galbraith: “…And tragedy can be quietly enjoyed when, as is not true of war, nothing is being lost but money.” (Full disclosure...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Celebration of Hobby…Er Addiction at Dharmapurikar Wedding

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In last 47 years, I might have seen thousands of wedding cards- simple, elegant, beautiful, functional, even vulgar. I thought I had seen th...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Fate, Destiny or Luck of Girish Wagh and Vasudev Deshpande

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Indians tend to use the word "fate" very often. They seldom use "destiny" or simple "luck". Marathi author G...
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Phantom महाबली वेताळ in My Classroom. Speaking Marathi.

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NYT editorial of January 3, 2008 - “ Comic Books in the Classroom ”- said: “Generations of children grew up reading comic books on the sly,...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Anil Kumble’s Team is Largely Brahmin. So was Shivaji’s Ministry..

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त्र्यंबक शंकर शेजवलकर, 'रामदासांचा उपदेश व उद्योग महाराष्ट्रराज्याला विघातक ठरला काय?', १९४३, 'निवडक लेखसंग्रह', पृष्ठ ३१-३२...
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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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