Looking at Cartoons, Getting Along

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,100+ 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"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."

Monday, August 15, 2011

I don't mind the Indian independence movement as long as it doesn't have too much greed in it

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शंकरराव किर्लोस्कर , मार्च २४ १९६९ : जुने राज्य गेले , चालीरीती बदलल्या व पूर्वीचे स्थैर्यही गेले . आता धावपळीचा काळ आला आ...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Vote Your Caste Here

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Justice J.S. Verma, a former Chief Justice of India: "Earlier, people looked at caste only at the time of marriage. Now caste is not...
Monday, August 08, 2011

रक्त लाल रंगाचा दिस्तां खंडळ्याचो घाट Bloody Red Khandala Ghat

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हिरव्या हिरव्या रंगाची , झाडि घनदाट सांग् ‌ गो चेड् वा दिस्तां कसो , खंडळ्याचो घाट . ‌ Michael Kazin has written a review of " ...
Thursday, August 04, 2011

Makers of Today's India- My 19

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George Orwell: History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Shravan! Three Swings

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Today July 31 2011 is the first day of Shravan of Shaka year 1933 ( श्रावण , शके १९३३). Shravan, the month of swings (झोका ) and mother...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Shallow People Demand Variety. Even in Cartoon Captions!

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August Strindberg : "Shallow people demand variety – but I have been writing the same story throughout my life, every time trying to c...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

लहान माझी बाहुली was such a far cry from Barbie

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Barbie's co-creator, Elliot Handler , died on July 21 2011. They say Barbie, born 1959, with her long legs, love of pink-tinged glamour,...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Greek tragedy does not allow any comic relief. Or does it? Trojan Horse

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Wikipedia: Greek tragedy does not allow any comic relief. Bernard Lewis: “In the history of human thought science has often come out of sup...
Monday, July 18, 2011

मुंबई नगरी बडी बांका, जशी रावणाची दुसरी लंका

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CNN July 14 2011: "Mumbai returned quickly to a strange sense of normality on Thursday, less than 12 hours after triple blasts hit the...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

G G Agarkar knew whether there was Hell or not

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Today is 155th birth anniversary of Gopal Ganesh Agarkar ( गोपाळ गणेश आगरकर ) . The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier , ...
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