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, November 17, 2024

अपुरा, नित्य नवा राहिलेला मोरगावचा नंदी...Wabi sabi

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 Maria Popova writes: " Wabi sabi is a beautiful Japanese concept that has no direct translation in English. Both an aesthetic and a ...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

What is More Dangerous? Salt or Zombie Parents?

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Today November 14  is Children's day Artist: K J Lamb, The Spectator UK , April 2016
Monday, November 11, 2024

वॉचमनच्या नजरेतून मेट... Patrick Bringley's The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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After losing his brother to cancer in 2008 Patrick Bringley quit his job in the editorial events office at the New Yorker magazine and spent...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Francisco Goya's Junta of the Philippines c1815...Modernity: its Bareness, Staginess, and Deliberate Cultivation of Mystery

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 Robert Hughes writes in his book "Goya", 2003: "... It was the largest picture he ever made—some eight feet by ten—and one o...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

W H Auden's Stop All the Clocks and R K Narayan's The English Teacher

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 I have a feeling that this poem was on R K Narayan's mind when he wrote one of his best ( and partly autobiographical) novels "The...
Saturday, November 02, 2024

राम गणेश गडकरींचे 'एकच प्याला' कशावर आधारित होते? Othello or The Gin Palace (L'Assommoir)?

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र वा दिघे (१८९६-१९८०) (रा ग गडकरींशी झालेले बोलणे आठवत):   "... शेवटी एमिल झोलाच्या 'Gin Palace' ची त्यांना आठवण करून दिली. तें...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Elections...When Turkeys Rain from an Airplane Hanging from Rudimentary Tiny Parachutes

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  Artist is Walter Molino (1915-1997). Picture is titled Election Poultry (how appropriate) for publication La Domenica del Corriere, 1951...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

मागें वळूनि पाहणें विसरलीस का? माधव विश्वनाथ धुरंधर यांची पाठमोरी पौर्णिमा...Sublime Beauty in Visual Art of 19th Century Maharashtra

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बा सी मर्ढेकर; "... अडलिस आणिक पुढें जराशी पुढें जराशी हंसलिस; ___मागें वळूनि पाहणें विसरलीस का ? विसरलीस का हिरवे धागे ? ..." (२५...
Monday, October 21, 2024

कोण जिंकले, कोण हरले? जॉन रस्किन का द ग गोडसेंचा आवडता जेम्स मॅकनील व्हिसलर?...Nocturne in Black and Gold, a Meaningless Blob?

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 दत्तात्रय गणेश गोडसे यांनी "नांगी असलेले फुलपाखरू"- १ आणि २ असे जेम्स मॅकनील व्हिसलर (१८३४-१९०३) ह्या कलावंतावर दोन लेख लिहले हे ...

दुसरे महायुद्ध १९७०च्या दशकात आमच्या डोळ्यादेखत जिवंत होते!...Two Bicycles from WWII

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"...In conclusion, to assess the contribution made by cyclist units, one only needs to look among the graves in the British Commonwealt...
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