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."

Friday, April 18, 2008

Memory Maybe the New Sex for Americans. For Indians, it's Money.

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I had a lot of correspondence with the late M V Dhond म वा धोंड but I never met him. Earlier in my life, the same thing happened with D G G...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Bill for These Things Are Coming. Big Time.

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Americans can poke fun at their armed forces without looking over their shoulders. Over weekend of April 11-12, 2008 I watched "the D...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Annus Mirabilis of Marathi: Year 1608

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On April 14, 2008 , we will observe 400th birth anniversary of Saint Samarth Ramdas समर्थ रामदास (1608-1681). Marathi could be the only maj...
Friday, April 11, 2008

Indian Museum, Calcutta. This time they could not bury it!

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The only place I really like to take visitors to Pune is classy Kelkar museum . Aga khan Palace flatters to deceive. Pune has not bothered ...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Reinventing Oneself or Being Cowards?

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LIESL SCHILLINGER said (NYT Books Update April 4 2008): “…And the fact that America is still a place where the rest of the world comes to ...
Monday, April 07, 2008

Did Workers Let Indian Textile Industry Down?

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Roger Cohen said (The New York Times March 31, 2008): “…Everything passes. In the 17th century, China and India accounted for more than ha...
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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Food Gets 'Z' Category Security in India!

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Rate of inflation in India just hit 7%, highest in three years. Inflation hurts even literature . Many in India blame the futures trading in...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

Global Free-Market Capitalism, Aged 30, Died on March 14. America Killed It.

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David Berreby said ( International Herald Tribune March 14, 2008 ): “For years, the ideology of free markets bestrode the world, bending po...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Has L K Advani Written A B Vajpayee’s Book?

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BJP honcho L K Advani has written a book- “ My Country, My Life ” and is busy promoting it. Hard copy edition is priced at Rs. 595/-. Looks ...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Avoiding Plastic Bags at the Mall will not Offset Your Car’s Emissions

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In middle-class India , environmentalism has become as fashionable as it is in the West . It is in schoolbooks, on TV, in after-dinner disc...
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