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, August 21, 2011

What if Anna Hazare were to be an Army Deserter

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K.N. PANIKKAR : "Indian democracy has evolved an institutional structure on the basis of the principles and prescriptions laid down ...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Can Anna Hazare be compared to Mahatma Gandhi? How clean a smell he manages to leave behind!

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A favourite repost of Anna Hazare's detractors is - He is no Gandhi. (Someone writes he is not a patch on Jayaprakash Narayan .) Mayb...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Marathi Anna Hazare's Hindi: Let us march against Corruption

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David Ogilvy: When Aeschines spoke, they said, “How well he speaks.” But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, “Let us march against Phili...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Would M N Srinivas be a happy man today?

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T. J. Jackson Lears in "Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920" (2009): "A great deal of waste, frau...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Life is first boredom? Not when Shammi-mama is on a song

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Friedrich Nietzsche: “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” Woody Allen: "You could argue that the...
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...
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