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"

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Romancing Railways. Buster Keaton style.

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Today October 4 2011 is 116th birth anniversary of Buster Keaton . Paul Theroux: "Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of ...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Navratris in the New York city!

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The Times of India, October 2005: “Solved: Post-Navratri abortion: It's a revolution of sorts. Social researchers waiting to dish out th...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Banning Books- These Indians are crazy!

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Wikipedia on Obelix: "His catchphrase is: "Ils sont fous ces romains", which translates into "These Romans are crazy!...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Paris and London pauperised George Orwell! The way Mumbai did to Arun Kolatkar! And who to Buddha?

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पॅरिस आणि लंडननी भिकेस लावलं . जॉर्ज ओरवेलना ! जस मुंबईन लावल अरुण कोलटकरना ! आणि कोणी बुद्धाला ? विष्णुस्मृति : श्रद्धा च नो ...
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...
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