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, September 13, 2009

यथा मनुष्यं च मोबाईलं च

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One of my favourite shloka श्लोक from Ramayana रामायण is: "यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महार्णवे। समेत्य तु व्यपेयातां कालमासाद्य कंच...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hurry to proclaim Victory in the face of Failure?

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Recently, in August 2009 , I watched a program on Discovery Channel about the space shuttle Columbia disaster. It was done candidly. There ...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Nimdu Kirana Gharana, namdu Kirana angadi

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Bhimsen Joshi once famously told Gangubai Hangal : Nimdu Kirana Gharana , namdu Kirana angadi. (Yours is Kirana Gharana, mine is kirana sh...
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Friday, September 04, 2009

Tiger-infested Nallamalla or Human-infested Earth?

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While reporting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S R Reddy's accident, The Times of India's headline on September 3, 2009 reads: ...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Why did liberal D G Godse sketch for V D Savarkar's book?

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V D Savarkar: "I have no quarrel with Mr Jinnah's two-nation theory. We Hindus are a nation by ourselves and it is a historical fa...
Monday, August 31, 2009

History Lies in the Eyes of the Beholder

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Movie " Inglourious Basterds " featuring Brad Pitt is based on events of World War II. Kate Williams writes about it in Spectato...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Will the Monument of Shivaji Ask for Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses from Anywhere in India?

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Pudhari dated August 26 2009 'proudly' declares: proposed Shivaji monument in the Arabian sea will be taller than the Statue of L...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Vithoba, The Third Man

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You can tell, I am drunk on just concluded Ashes . They say when a team fields a position of third man - and not forward short leg or gully-...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Moral High Ground, Infosys and Gold-In-Sacks

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John Gapper :“a lot of people used to think that Goldman Sachs ran the US economy. Now we know it does”. And what is good for US economy is ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Book Banning, Author Expelling

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Today started badly for me. I began it reading Jagmohan : "...Look at the Indian Parliament . What an uninspiring spectacle it is. The ...
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