I was awestruck when I first watched the Marathi movie “Manus,” made in 1939. A love story of a constable…
‘Vanga Chitre’ and ‘Mukkam Shantiniketan’ Pu. La’s Pursuit of Bengali
Vanga Chitre Vaman Mangesh Dubhashi, Pu. La. Deshpande’s maternal Grandfather had translated Rabindranath’s Geetanjali into Marathi. This is just trivia.…
The Glass Palace By Amitav Ghosh
Finishing this book was ticking off my wish list. Being from Ratnagiri, I wanted to know about King Thibaw, his…
City Heights
India lives in villages, they say. My mind is boggled right now looking at the quantity of finished construction in my…
Why I’m Dropping My Last Name
What’s in a name? Shakespeare would know what’s in one’s last name if he had been born in India. Almost…
Annihilation Of Caste – My Thoughts
Annihilation Of Caste is a book written by Babasaheb Ambedkar in 1936. It is actually a drafted speech he was…
Panchayat 2 Beauty Skin Deep
I could not appreciate Panchayat 2 as much because it remains the surficial story of this village just like Panchayat…
Revisiting Marathi Book Osadwadiche Dev
I vividly recall this one summer afternoon of my school vacation. Sitting alone in a room at home, I was…
Born Again 