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, December 18, 2011

India's Lingering Love Affair with Correction Fluid

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Gilbert Adair: For centuries the pen remained the supreme guarantor of legal, contractual, epistolary and literary authenticity. Then, durin...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Did Mario de Miranda ever get to sit in the Bulb?

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Whenever I got a chance, I read " The Illustrated Weekly of India " in 1970's as a schoolboy. My father either got them from w...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

English 'Ralph Darnell' is NOT scarce. Marathi 'Plaseecha Ranasangram' of D B Mokashi is!

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Curtis White: "We know that the major players are positioning themselves for a very uncertain future, but there are really only two maj...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Dev Anand mightn't Agree but there is More Sunshine in the Fall of a Leaf

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George Orwell: "Like every other writer, Shakespeare will be forgotten sooner or later..." (' Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool '...
Sunday, December 04, 2011

Where did Primal Couple of Paradise go to Stool?

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I read Nicholas Lezard 's review of " A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary " by Voltaire , translated by John Fletcher in Guardi...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Creative Commons- J C Bose and V K Rajwade

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Today Nov 30 2011 is 153rd Birth Anniversary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. WSJ November 30 2011 : "To accelerate research breakthrou...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

A Compliment that Marie might have received from Pierre!

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When I read Kiran Karnik 's article in the The Times of India on Nov 10 2011, it was hard to believe that Indian government of the day ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

D'Oliveira Helped me Understand Our Own Dalit's Pain Just a Little Better

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Wikipedia: "People responsible for the disposal of night soil are considered untouchables in India." Vic Marks: "In Peter Obo...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Jhansi Ki Rani: Of Godse and Goya

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Today November 19 2011 is 176th birth anniversary of Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi The Telegraph, UK, April 14 2012 : "George Washing...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Peter Roebuck: Regret comes over us for the Life Unled

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Peter Roebuck: "Nothing is sadder than the extinguishing of a young life. Besides the loss itself, and the pain that follows, the prema...
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