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High excitement on the streets of New Delhi on August 15, 1947
India Soumyadip ChoudhuryAugust 15, 2015 0

Watch: High excitement on the streets of New Delhi on August 15, 1947

This edition of the Movietone News from August 1947 captures the high excitement on the streets of New Delhi (complete with the obligatory cows) and the Parliament of India as…Continue Reading →

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VK Krishna Menon’s ‘Nehru’s vision, Menon’s mission’ election poster from 1967

VK Krishna Menon was denied a Congress ticket in the 1967 Lok Sabha elections from the Bombay North East constituency.…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0March 17, 2013
Assembly House, Shillong (1948)
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Vintage photographs of Shillong from 1948 (also Vallabhbhai Patel calling people of Assam lazy)

64 years later, Shillong is virtually unrecognisable. I could only recognise the Governor House on Bivar Road, then known as…

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The bald quartet – Gandhi, Nehru, Bose, Patel – in an ad for hair oil

This is possibly from a time when a head full of ideals was more important than a head full of hair. What else can explain the presence of India’s most…Continue Reading →

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Jawaharlal Nehru in a 1950 ad for Chicago Telephone & Radio

This advertisement is from the January 28, 1950 edition of The Times of India (Delhi) and has the then Prime…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1December 8, 2010
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