Category Archives: marathi

Road From Democracy to Fascism

The recent storm cre­ated by the Shiv Sena in Maha­rash­tra is indica­tive of a resur­gent Fas­cism as cor­rectly noted by Soli Sorab­jee. This rot in Maha­rash­tra is elo­quently ana­lyzed by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, which you must read to get a grasp of the sit­u­a­tion.
What dis­tresses me to a cer­tain extent is the debate I observe

Music Appreciation: मना तुझे मनोगत

I touched upon Indi­ans not mak­ing it easy for oth­ers to appre­ci­ate their art recently. I then mused about the melt­ing pot that is India, and how dif­fi­cult it can be for Indi­ans to appre­ci­ate their own regional arts. Hence I would like to exper­i­ment shar­ing my affec­tion of a Marathi song, and see if

Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

I have always admired West­ern films fea­tur­ing the hand­i­capped, such as Chil­dren of a Lesser God, Scent of a Woman, and the clas­sic The Mir­a­cle Worker. So the last week­end, I decided to explore sim­i­lar Indian films. Warn­ing: this post con­tains spoil­ers.
Koshish (Effort) (1972)
Directed by the sen­si­tive Gulzar, fea­tur­ing stal­warts San­jeev Kumar and Jaya Bhaduri,

Maharashtrian Ethos — Pathos?

While every­one is writ­ing about India’s first female pres­i­dent, let me take this oppor­tu­nity to note another first for India’s pres­i­dent: that Mrs. Prat­i­bha Patil is a Maha­rash­trian.
Rajdeep Sarde­sai writes about the eupho­ria among the Maha­rash­trian com­mu­nity on his IBN Live Blog.
While I would dis­agree with him about this, he goes on to fur­ther explore Maharashtra’s

Pune’s E-Governance Initiatives

Is Pune liv­ing up to its claim of being the “IT hub of Maha­rash­tra”? At least some ini­tia­tives point in that direc­tion.
Bet­ter Roads in Mon­soon
Pune is noto­ri­ous for its bad roads, and the mon­soon sea­son is pure night­mare. Both the PMC and the IT geeks-based “Bet­ter Roads Group” have teamed up to make this mon­soon

How to pay homage to Chhatrapati Shivaji?

Unlike the moronic ways I’ve writ­ten about many times ear­lier, this group of peo­ple show us the real way.
“For two months they stayed away from home, quit jobs and risked their lives and limbs climb­ing to dizzy­ing heights and faced nature’s chal­lenges. For, pro­pelling these 20 youth, was their devo­tion to Chha­tra­p­ati Shiv­aji Maharaj.