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"

Sunday, October 12, 2008

It’s The Sacred Cow’s Pee Again. W H Auden and B S Mardhekar.

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President George W. Bush : “…In the final days of the San Francisco Conference , the delegates negotiating the U.N. Charter received a v...
Friday, October 10, 2008

Have Signposts of the World Changed? Paul Theroux and Maurice Isserman Think So.

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My favourite book “ The Great Railway Bazaar ” has been rewritten. “…Thirty-three years and 40-odd books later, Theroux — ‘twice as old as...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Prince Charles Talking About Dying Indian Farmers Once Again Turns His Back on Science.

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PTI reported on October 7, 2008 : “Appalled by the increasing rate of suicides by debt trapped Indian farmers, Prince Charles of Britain ha...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Ratan Tata’s Dinner Date with Mamta Banerjee

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Ratan Tata: “Two years ago, I said if somebody puts a gun to my head, you would either have to remove the gun or pull the trigger. I would n...
Sunday, October 05, 2008

In US, Main Street Vs. Wall Street. In India, Street Vs. No Street

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It’s interesting to watch US lawmakers fighting a street game called: “Main Street Vs. Wall Street”. In India, we too play a street game. It...
Friday, October 03, 2008

What is Deadliest? Traffic,Temple Queues and Terrorism. In that Order.

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We are not driven around in a chauffeur driven car. We don't live in a gated community. Our family has to worry about bombs. But I am mo...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

I’m all for Putting Newsweek in its Place

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On July 16, 2001, Fareed Zakaria wrote in Newsweek: “Last week I celebrated my first Fourth of July as an American … A South African judge...
Monday, September 29, 2008

How can Our Democracy Afford to Provide Third-rate Services to the Poor?

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Arundhati Roy recently wrote “…all Indians who are not nanga or bhookha are—and have been—complicit in complex and historical ways with the...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

What is the Breed of Your Tethered Dog? Financial-Watchdog?

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"The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission , a longtime proponent of deregulation, acknowledged on Friday that failures in...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Practical Problems with Hell and Heaven

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Since my mother died in January 2006 , I have been really hoping to meet her one-day. In flesh and blood. Although I saw her going up in smo...
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