Some nostalgic pictures - A rarity to have - Needs to be preserved!
1) 15th August 1947, First News Paper of INDEPENDENT INDIA
2) The front page of the April 16, 1912 evening edition of the Boston Globe, detailing the Titanic Disaster is shown
3) Incomplete Howrah bridge 1935
4) Howrah Bridge under construction... 1942...
5) HOWRAH BRIDGE
6) Calcutta bus stand near Howrah bridge, most likely on the Howrah station side of the Hooghly River 1944
7) view of the hoogly river at 1880
8) Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky
9) The Elephant Rock - 1858
10) Star Cinema ( now at Pakistan ) 1943
11) Shooting-the-mgm-lion-logo-in-1924
12) An Awesome paint of Leonardo da vinci
13) Last time Netaji was arrested by British police
14) Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhulabhai Desai, and Rajendra Prasad (Center) at the AICC Session, April 1939
15) A rare one of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his wife Eimilie Shenkl
16) Chatim talay gurudeber janmodin 1937
17) Gandhi ji with his wife Kasturba Gandhi
18) the crown of India
19) Maharani of Jaipur Gayatri Devi - 1940's
20) Gandhi-ji with Netaji 1932
21) British India and Afghanistan border - 1934
22) The last train , Dhaka to Calcutta!!! Taken in 1947
23) rare picture of the family of maa sarada devi
24) 1968 shayam bazar more
25) rare picture of Kishore kumar & Bhupen Hazarika
26) Jaya with her son & daughter
27) Old Calcutta
28) The original picture of Jhansi Rani Laxmi Bai. This picture has been taken by German photographer Hoffman 160 years ago
29) Family of Indira Gandhi
30) July 1983 Indira Gandhi felicitates Kapil Dev, captain of Indian cricket team
31) Amit ji with his mom Teji bachan....
32) Rabindranath Thakur
33) Sharat Chandra with Surendranath
34) Bagha Jatin
35) Awesome picture of RK, Dilip Sahab and Dev Anand
36) Asha, Mukesh , Lata , Kishore & Manna
37) Satyajit Roy only 22 years old , picture taken at 1943
38) deho rakhchen thakur ramkrishna paramahansa deb
39) India's first Railway
40) 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
41) 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. didn’t 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!!
