Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Some nostalgic moments....

 

 

 

 

15th August 1947, First News Paper of Independent INDIA 

 

 

 

Dairy Milk Chocolate 1905 to 1999 

 

 

Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky

 

 

An Awesome paint of Leonardo Da Vinci 

 

 

The front page of the April 16, 1912 evening edition of the Boston Globe, detailing the Titanic Disaster is shown

 

 

 

The Elephant Rock – 1858

 

 

Star Cinema ( now at Pakistan ) 1943

 

 

Shooting-the-mgm-lion-logo-in-1924 

 

 

Incomplete Howrah bridge 1935

 

 

 

Howrah Bridge under construction... 1942

  

 

 

Howrah Bridge 

 

 

 

Calcutta bus stand near Howrah bridge, most likely on the Howrah station side of the Hooghly River 1944

 

 

 

view of the Hoogly river at 1880 

 

 

Last time Netaji was arrested by British police 

 

 

 

A rare one of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his wife Eimilie Shenkl

 

 

Gandhi ji with his wife Kasturba Gandhi

  

 

 

The crown of India  

 

 

 

Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi - 1940's

  

 

 

The last train , Dhaka to Calcutta!!! Taken in 1947  

 

 

British India and Afghanistan border – 1934 

    

 

 

Gandhi-ji with Netaji and Sardar Patel 1932 

 

 

 

 

Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhulabhai Desai, and Rajendra Prasad (Center) at the AICC Session, April 1939

  

 

 

 

Rabindranath Tagore

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarat Chandra with Surendranath Roy

 

  

 

 

 

1968 Shayam Bazar more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family of Indira Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 1983  Indira Gandhi felicitates Kapil Dev, captain of Indian cricket team

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Satyajit Roy only 22 years old , picture taken at 1943

  

 

 

Asha, Mukesh , Lata , Kishore & Manna

 

 

 

 

 

Rare picture of Kishore kumar & Bhupen Hazarika

 

 

 

 

 

Awesome picture of RK, Dilip sahab and Dev anand

  

 

 

Amitabh Bachan with his mom Teji Bachan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jaya Bachan with her son & daughter

 

 

 

 

 

 

The First Indian Rail

 

 

 

 

 

C. V. Raman - The Great Indian Physicist

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect

 

 

 

  

 

 

The original picture of Jhansi Rani Laxmi Bai. This picture has been taken by German photographer Hoffman 160 years ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was how the Taj Mahal was protected from bomber jets in 1942 during world war.
It was covered with huge scaffold, to make it look like a stockpile of bamboo and misguide bombers.

The covering is still incomplete in this photo. The whole of Taj Mahal was covered but this picture shows only the main dome covered. The govt. did Not allow any photographers later to shoot the final scaffold cover.

During the India-Pakistan war in 1971, it was protected by covering it with a green cloth and making it almost invisible i.e. camouflaged within the greenery around it.
Even in 2001, after the Sep 11 attack, Archaeological Survey of India took up the precautionary measure to cover it with cloth and it took them more than 20 days to do that!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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