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"

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Did Madhukar Sarpotdar Hear the Verdict?

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More than 16 years after the alleged act , Mr. Madhukar Sarpotdar was sentenced to 1 year in jail on July 9, 2008. His case proved once ...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Does America Have Any Culture? And Urban Middle-class Maharashtra?

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After reading what I have quoted below and watching Marathi TV occasionally I am motivated to ask: “Does Urban Middle-class Maharashtra Ha...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Grunting became Music because Tennis was so Great and that fetched the Gods

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I am not a tennis fan. But the match between Rafeal Nadal and Roger Federer at Wimbledon 2008 took my breath and sleep away. It was like p...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Who Answers Your Phone and How? 'हलो हलो' ला हलकट उत्तर.

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One of B S Mardhekar’s बा. सी. मर्ढेकर poems starts with following lines: त्रुटित जीवनीं सुटी कल्पना, ट्रिंग ट्रिंग जैसा खोटा नंबर सलग जमेन...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Phillips Rodny Associates (and many of us) are now in Bunge

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John Kay said: “…what we need is a term for the opposite of a bubble….bubbles are puffed up, not puffed down. That is why we need a phrase t...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Tata’s Nano because they said Oil Price was a Globe Wide Bubble

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The New Yorker Caption Contest #152 Artist: Mick Stevens The New Yorker 7 July 2008 proposed caption: "Oh, no! We bought Tata’s Nano ...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Reader’s Digest for the Overclass,The Economist, does it again!

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Paul Krugman : “Nine years ago The Economist ran a big story on oil, which was then selling for $10 a barrel. The magazine warned that this ...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Did a Typewriter Play a Role in Nietzsche’s God is Dead?!

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Andrew Sulliavn wrote on June 15, 2008 in The Sunday Times : “Here’s something I didn’t know: Friedrich Nietzsche used a typewriter. Many o...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Whose Nice Decade/Century/Millennium was it Anyway?

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The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King , has declared the “nice decade” to be over. Tim Bond argues in FT May 19, 2008 that we a...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

How Tall can Pencils Grow in Green Pune, NASA'a Innovative Zero Gravity Pen

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Artist: Tom Cheney The New Yorker 30 June 2008 caption contest # 151 Proposed captions : 1. "“…So you are saying I may go to jail if ...
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