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, January 03, 2010

Te acompaño en tu pesar

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Mahatma Gandhi translated a few of Tukaram 's poems when he was jailed in Yerwada in 1930 . One of them reads in Marathi: "जेथे ज...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Are you ready for Eternity?

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Anton Chekhov in 'The Three Sisters' (Tri sestry), 1901: "Well, maybe we’ll fly in balloons, the cut of jackets will be differe...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Is Bengali Cosmopolitanism a Bengali Parochialism?

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Pradip Das in Asian Age Dec 16 2009 on the state of West Bengal : "...Frustration, fear, insecurity and mindless violence have overta...
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Friday, December 25, 2009

पण म्हणून का त्याच्या शिकवणीचे महत्व कमी होते?

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G A Kulkarni : "...He gave the message of love and peace, but it spread on the strength of the sword; he insisted on austerity, and now...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Inflation Hurts Literature Some More

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In last few years I have across articles like " If Odysseus Had GPS " where the author claims that if today's technology were...
Monday, December 21, 2009

100 Years After Pandit A M T Jackson, a good Topivalla

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December 21, 2009 is the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the collector of Nashik , A M T Jackson , of the Indian Civil Service ,...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Gandhi and Tiger Woods: Animal Passion on the day Father Died?

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Most Marathi newspapers, quite rightly, don't give a damn to Golf . Not even to Golf WAGS or Golf widows. (I wonder why they care about...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Dilip Chitre, We'll always have Tukaram

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Ashok Shahane : "Dilip Purushottam Chitre had to incarnate to tell even the poets here that Tukaram was a poet to the bone." [ Nap...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Dilip Chitre's Bhopal Gas Tragedy

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How much does the brute force of history change the quality of an artist's output? How much role did the famines of first half of 17th c...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Dilip Chitre: Marathi speaking Leonardo da Vinci?

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George Orwell on Mark Twain: "But most people who have studied his work have come away with a feeling that he might have done something...
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