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 26, 2010

The Persistence of Memory. Vasant Sarwate style!

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The late J G Ballard called the late Salvador Dali the greatest painter of the 20th century. About following painting, Ballard says: "...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Damn, Why didn't I smoke? Because I like that in a Man. And a Woman

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Anthony Daniels: "Back in the old days, intellectuals used to smoke. Indeed, anyone who didn’t smoke couldn’t be a real intellectual, a...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

R G Gadkari's Sindhu, A Hitchcock's Blondes

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I read Ram Ganesh Gadkari 's (1885-1919) (राम गणेश गडकरी) " Ekach Pyala " (एकच प्याला) when in school. I had mixed feelings. I...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Does Marathi have any Third Culture?

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TREVOR BUTTERWORTH: "...It is also refreshing, and possibly redemptive, to be reminded of a time when scientists composed poetry—as Cha...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Now, We Don't want Hindi Speaking Cows!

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Sadly now defunct but delightful Marathi periodical ' Amrut ' (अमृत) used to have two interesting columns. One was called ' Mu...
Saturday, September 04, 2010

The Man who saw the Sun put to sleep Anjali, Aristophanes, Agathon...

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Adam Kirsch: There's no reason to think that Xenophon's dull moralist or Aristophanes's comic foil is closer to the real Socrat...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Will Jayant Narlikar One Day Write Marathi Sceptical Essays?

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John Gray:"Science fiction was once driven by a faith in human ability to change the world. These days, the genre seeks to expose the i...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

When Samarth Ramdas and Aurangzeb met! Time- Classified, Place- Classified!

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(double click on the picture to get a larger view) Caption reads in English- Aurangzeb: "This is brilliant, Samarth! I understand, for ...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Hope Infosys is NOT like Micosoft

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Martha C Nussbaum: "If this trend continues, nations all over the world will soon be producing generations of useful, docile, technical...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Who says there is NO money in Marathi?

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I like the size of the cheque- INR 82 lacs- that is being returned to Marathi Sahitya Parishad by the people who organised " akhil bha...
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