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"

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Celebrating Birthdays to make the City Uglier

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The Times of India, September 5 2011, Pune edition, Front page: "Garbage has been piling up around the city for some time now and the s...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

Why do Maharashtra's Cartoonists Spare their Targets? Naji al-Ali, Ali Farzat...

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Monica Osborne : Germans may not have been aware of every aspect of Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jews and eliminate political dissen...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

गंगाराम चिंतामण तांबट: The Hidden Marathi Artist In A British Archive

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ROBERTA SMITH : Art historians rarely rest, and the world is generally a better place for their exertions. Scholars of the great painting tr...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

When Indian People would like a word with their Members of Parliament...

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Indian lawmakers keep talking about people... how they are their sole representatives etc. Well, Indian people decided to meet them in D...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

का अण्णा हवासा पण अक्का 'नकोशी'? Why desire Anna but Akka 'Nakoshi'?

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Raina Lipsitz: Today, we don't make movies about women that are even worth fighting about. Whenever I'm dispirited by the crassl...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Learning from Sant Janabai & Simone Weil: Restoring Dignity to Menial Labour

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Today Aug 24 2011 is 68th death anniversary of Simone Weil. I had to know who Ms Weil was when I read her this quote some time ago: “All...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Was Mahatma a Pioneer in the Art of Media Manipulation?

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Pankaj Mishra: "Gandhi’s greatest contribution to the arsenal of political activism, however, is his theory and practice of bringin...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Rereading Vasant Sarwate at Ramlila Maidan in August 2011

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Indian government until August 22 2011 to the supporters of The Jan Lokpal Bill and middle-class people in general... caption: मी लो...
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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...
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