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 24, 2010

Nutan, Tujhe Kya Sunao Main Dilruba

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Nutan is one of the greatest actors I have seen. (Frankly, it goes beyond acting. When I was 14 or 15, after watching her in Anari , made be...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

In Marathi Popular Culture, a false division between Laughter and Thought

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Howard Jacobson has won the Man Booker Prize . I plan to read the book. Not because of the prize but because of the essay HJ wrote for The ...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

When Adam Smith sounds more like Arundhati Roy than Milton Friedman

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Stefan Stern observes in FT 19 Jul 2010: "...What does the future have in store for us? Short of some fantastic scientific innovation...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Kavita Raut, You inspire me

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Kenenisa Bekele: Ethiopians are born on high altitude and brought up under conditions which are low in oxygen. They prefer running for most ...
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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: "...
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