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"

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Even A Milder Syphilis उपदंश Played a Roll Shaping Indian history

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Pam : Didn’t Ben Franklin have syphilis? ( The Office - Season 3, Episode 14, 2 February 2007 ) Walter Isaacson : No. Franklin had the gout...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

An Entry for The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest #146

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I don't qualify to participate in The New Yorker's "Cartoon Caption Contest" because I am not a U.S. resident age eighteen...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Does 133 Years Old Tradition of Recipe Books in Marathi Encourage Cooking?

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For Lalit ललित April 2008, Sharad Gogte शरद गोगटे has written a delightful essay on a long history of cookery books in Marathi. I am fon...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

R K Laxman Agrees With George W. Bush! Jared Diamond Doesn’t

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American President George W. Bush : “Worldwide there is increasing demand. There turns out to be prosperity in the developing world, which i...
Thursday, May 08, 2008

Can Language Overpower Caste in Maharashtra?

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STEVE LOHR said in The New York Times (March 23, 2008): “…The demise of the old technology is confidently predicted, and indeed it may lose...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008

When Amitabh Bachchan and Infosys Don’t Fit In

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Amitabh Bachchan and Infosys once were celebrated “outsiders”. Now they are the establishment, the environment. Therefore, when they speak l...
Sunday, May 04, 2008

Life Imitates Art. Sudhir Tailang and Raj Thackeray.

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India’s union health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said in the Rajya Sabha that the polio virus was transmitted only in Uttar Pradesh and Bi...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Dialogue with Iran using Interpreters!!!

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The Times of India May 2, 2008 : "The recent visit by Iranian president Mohammed Ahmedinejad has not gone down well with the US , for...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Lions Feast: Next Change at The Great Indian IPL Circus

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Not Hindi cinema but cricket may just become the biggest entertainment of 21st century South Asia . Read a related post here . Pakistan cr...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Triumph of Idiot Culture, Manufactured Controversy, Sensationalism

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There is a huge controversy in Maharashtra , including its legislative assembly, over a banner where Union minister Sharad Pawar’s picture i...
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