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 17, 2008

Newspapers that Speak from the Loins

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If a person who doesn’t understand either Marathi or English were to look at daily morning newspapers at Pune , how will she distinguish be...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

India’s Greed Belts

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SOMINI SENGUPTA of NYT recently discovered what many of us now have known for a while: “Many in India’s upper middle class have moved to g...
Friday, June 13, 2008

Bank Robbers at Pune may now need Financial Adviser!

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Times of India / Pune Mirror reported on June 11, 2008 : “Police chief cannot protect banks, he can’t stop MNS from holding illegal rallie...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Maybe Hillary didn’t Lose because she was a Woman but Joan of Arc?

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Pundits wrote Hillary couldn't lose. Therefore, I made an appeal to her using poet B S Mardhekar's बा सी मर्ढेकर words. Read it here...
Monday, June 09, 2008

BJP Saffron and Ivanovic Neo Red are going to be Huge this Summer

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Frontline Jun 07 - 20, 2008 A Colourful Champion Artist: Robert Mankoff The New Yorker September 27, 2004 new caption: "Ditch Detainee...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

Have you read M F Husain Version of Ramayana?

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U.R. Ananthamurthy says: “The only two languages that are understood all over the country are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata .” ( India ...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Mobile Towers are a Health Hazard for Parachute Jumpers!

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The New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest #149 Artist: Mick Stevens The New Yorker June 9 2008 "You completely forgot about the last...
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...
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