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"

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Mothers and Sparrows Don’t Thrive on Neglect

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I always took my mother and a sparrow for granted. And why not. They were the two species I sighted most during my childhood. The story mill...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Sakharam Binder सखाराम बाईंडर and the Basic Middle-Class Hunger for Property

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Writing Vijay Tendulkar’s विजय तेंडुलकर obit, Girish Karnad says: “…Then came Sakharam Binder. It's not only Tendulkar's best play...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Shiva’s Wrongful Depiction! The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest #148

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I continue NOT to be a "U.S. resident age eighteen or over". So here is my entry by stealth. Artist: Drew Dernavich The New Yorker...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Shit- a WMD at Work in Myanmar 2008…Panipat 1761…

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For NYT May 19, 2008, ROSE GEORGE writes: “IT’S the rainy season in Myanmar . It’s also cholera season. When Cyclone Nargis arrived two we...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Bollywood also is a Dog-doesn't-Return-Other-Dog's-Phone-Calls

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Woody Allen : “Show business is, is dog-eat-dog. It's worse than dog-eat-dog. It's dog-doesn't-return-other-dog's-phone-call...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Excesses on Display at Swargate, Pune Herald Mad Max 2

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George Miller’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) is my favourite film. The film portrays a world running out of oil. “…The end of the wo...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence - Cartoon Caption Contest #147-The New Yorker

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I continue NOT to be a "U.S. resident age eighteen or over". So here is my entry using stealth. Artist: Jack Ziegler The New Yorke...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Vijay Tendulkar विजय तेंडुलकर -A Passionate Lover of Cartoons- is Dead

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He was probably the only modern Marathi ‘great’ who appreciated the art of cartooning. No one else- e.g. P L Deshpande पु ल देशपांडे, Jay...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Trading Lacks Something Spiritually: Closing Averages on Human Scene

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So said Bill Perkins , one of the founding traders of Centaurus Energy Advisers , a hedge fund of about two dozen market makers – many forme...
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...
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