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"

Monday, July 12, 2010

Nil-nil is STILL the score of life

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Although I really love, Adam Gopnik 's quote: "The World Cup is a festival of fate -- man accepting his hard circumstances, the nea...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

The First Great Writer in Hindi was a Marathi?

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PAUL GOODMAN: "...For most of its history Islam has been the most relaxed of the three faiths. It neither aches for the coming of a Mes...
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Monday, July 05, 2010

Was this Handsome Man Evil? Muhammad Ayub Khan

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James Lovegrove:“The search for aliens, then, has turned inward. The Other is no longer up there in the stars. He’s our neighbour with the f...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

Shivajirao Bhosale, Chandgi Ram, Abhijit Marathe...

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Adam Philips: 'The world without the people who matter to us is not the same world and so not the world at all. Life becomes progressive...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

What did Crystal Ball Fortune Teller say in 1990?

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Recently from Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund company I received a promotional mailer. Its envelope carried this slogan: "Remember what lif...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Keshavsut's Tutari..err Vuvuzela!

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Stanley Crouch: People are uncomfortable in silence because it can breed needless contemplation and may engender a floating into the deeper ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Death: You were always a great friend of mine, Warren

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A columnist observed on June 19 2010: "...And the ageing Warren Anderson will eventually die a peaceful death in the Hamptons …. unlike...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Shame on me and the media I follow: Passing of Manohar Malgonkar

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Manohar Malgonkar died on June 14 2010 and I came to know about it only today June 20 2010. Shame on me and the media I follow. I lapped up...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Lord Irwin: And now, Ms. Gauhar Jaan, I wonder if I could take a small liberty?

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Gauhar Jaan (1873-1930) was a legendary singer. Probably as big as what K L Saigal was and Lata Mangeshkar today is. Frontline June 5-18 ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

N G Kalelkar, It was Marriage at Cana, not The Last Supper

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I like essays of N G Kalelkar 1909-1989 (ना गो कालेलकर) whose Marathi book ' Bhasha: Itihas ani Bhoogol ' (भाषा: इतिहास आणि भूगोल) ...
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