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"

Friday, September 23, 2011

M A K Pataudi- Prince of Cricket before it was Consumed by Commerce

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Imran Khan: "Tiger treated cricket as something which was to be enjoyed. That's why he was so flambouyant and had the charisma...My...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Our Sharakka Joshi, Kittur Chennamma and their Kannada

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As a blue-blooded Western-Maharashtrian I know so little about Marathwada (मराठवाडा)- region that produced Dnyaneshwar ( ज्ञानेश्वर ), Ek...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

If Anant Pai features, can Vasant Sarwate be far behind?

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On Feb 3 2010, I asked on this blog: When will Google Feature Vasant Sarwate Doodle ? I think I was being realistic. Today Sept 17 2011, Goo...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Gautam Rajadhyaksha, A Plastic Surgeon without a Scalpel!

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: “The most difficult for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his s...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

And Slowly We Got Back to Hating Everyone after Second 9/11...

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John Gray: "...the only genuine historical law is a law of irony." Noam Chomsky : “the first 9/11”: September 11, 1973, when the U...
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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