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, October 10, 2010

Was Lord Krishna's Panchjanya a Matchless Cone (Conus cedonulli)?

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(Today is my mother's 73rd birth anniversary. Thank you, Aai for those wonderful story telling sessions at dinner times. Mahabharata nev...
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Friday, October 08, 2010

Hope my ancestor was like Uganda's Moses Kipsiro

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Should India spend tax payers' money on organising 'expensive' international sports events? I don't know but I will never ...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

B S Mardhekar, Now there are Old Embers on New Corpses in Korean War

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TOM NAGORSKI: "...When it came to war, Gen. MacArthur was merciless. As the battle for the North soured, MacArthur ordered an aerial bo...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

Jayant Narlikar writes a sceptical essay. Sort of. In English.

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This post is a sequel. Read part I dated August 30 2010 here . There I asked "Will Jayant Narlikar One Day Write Marathi Sceptical Essa...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

So it was really about Hindi speaking cowherds!

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Lord Krishna whose birth anniversary, Krishna Janmashtami ( कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी ), is celebrated in Maharashtra with some gusto was a Hindi sp...
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...
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