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"

Friday, May 29, 2009

Severed Heads: Govind Pant Bundela, V Prabhakaran and near miss Nguyen Van Thieu

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p.s After I published following post on May 29 2009, this was in the papers on June 25 2009: "Despite pledges to protect South Vietnam,...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Atheism: Tukaram, Simone Weil, India's Ministers

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On May 22 2009 , six ministers out of twenty in India 's latest central cabinet did not take oath in the name of God . They are in excel...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

What did Mamata Banerjee Burn Down?

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Humour always was an integral part of Indian elections. Even when the Congress party was sweeping election after election in Southern Mahar...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Lalu, Mulayam, Paswan, Amar, Deve On All Fours

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A G Noorani writes in Frontline May 22, 2009 : “… Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru wrote on February 20, 1941 . He added: “Those in high authority in ...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Manmohan Now Needs No Refresher Course in Getting Puppeteered

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Artist: Victoria Roberts, The New Yorker, May 18 2009, Cartoon Caption Contest 193 My caption: Sonia: “Manmohan, remove those strings. You a...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Water Saw Her Lord and Blushed: Dnyaneshwar and Richard Crashaw

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Dnyaneshwari ज्ञानेश्वरी(c 1290) is the first great book written in a modern European or an Indo-Aryan language. Dante’s “Divine Comedy”...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Even in Throwing Shoes We Indians Only Imitate

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I have lost the count of number of shoes that were thrown at various public figures in India over last several weeks. My 15-year-old son re...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Feel like Going Back to School

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As I have said earlier the late P L Deshpande , wrote about other entertainers- Bal Gandharva (legendary large-hearted Marathi stage artis...
Monday, May 04, 2009

Swine Flu: Harbinger of New Cosmic Cycle?

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Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay in their book " What We Leave Behind ": "Industrial civilization is incompatible with life. It...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Say No to Arun Bhatia because he calls Pune “Poona”!

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Niall Ferguson : “…Without the British Empire , there would be no Calcutta ; no Bombay ; no Madras . Indians may rename them as many times ...
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