India through me...

Vintage India fever continues...

Few more worthy pics from my insane collection....

India in 1882.

The two giants..in their own sense

Iam not his follower..but I quite fascinated by how the multitude followed him.

Shantiniketan...where nature is the school.

Historical Day...Midnight of 14th August 1947.

The "Great Divide"

Train to Pakistan.More than a million people were displaced on wither sides

Soldier from Bengal Regiment

Gurkhas in action in China war 1882. Not to forget Gurkas were the forerunners in Kargil war too.

The famous Delhi Darbar.1903.The Old Delhi was the capital even in the
pre-east India company era

Few More Pics of Chennai(then Madras)

Karaka Opera,Bombay.1909.The only Opera House in India.

Vintage India...

yesterday.. was watching an Indian Classic..Umrao Jaan..a periodic (pre-east indian company) fictitious movie ..wondered how people would be realliiiii lookin at that time..juss tryin to throw light on that epoch... with few selected portraits of what i ended up ...."surfing"...

Starting with apna Hyderabad. Charminar in 1880 almost 300 years after it was built.

Victoria Terminal, Bombay in 1878. Built just then to commemorate the queen's 50th
anniversary of coronation.Post Independence..was renamed as "Chatrapati Shivaji
Terminal".... accalimed as one of the busiest teminus in India

Tata Mansion..donno when.. but is Grand..aint it? Built by Jamshetji himself as a
place to collect his antiques bought from japanese and chinese auctioneers.

Watson Road.Bombay. Wonder...Were there people at all in bombay ??

Sullivans Oak in1894. Place founded by John Sullivan now the hill station Ooty.

Few Portraits of people of that era..

Soldiers from the Indian war against China in 1860. The first war between the two Asian giants

The Punjab infantry in Egypt in 1882.

The Rajputana Chiefs parade in 1903.

The man here needs no introduction. Netaji himself.
The man who said "Give me blood...I'll give you Freedom" and "Jai Hind"..

The Maharaja of Mysore.

The Vizayanagaram Maharaja.

Snake charmers.

A Stage Actress taken.1903.

Musicians .1890

telugutanam..

Sattriraju Lakshmi Narayana, also known as Bapu re-defined TeluguTanam through his paintings and sketches.He along with artists like Satyam Shankaramanchi and Mullapudi VenkataRamana gave life through Colors to many characters that were confined to book. Bapu holds the honor of depicting the Ramayana through paintings. In his paintings, characters like Shiva, Bhima,Dhuryodhana look distinctly male with wide chests, bigger jaws and large biceps, while Krishna and Rama are rather more feminine in build. All his female characters have doe-like eyes, a noticeable waist to hip ratio, voluptuous breasts, long hair and a sharp nose. In fact, the phrase Bapu Bommahas become synonymous with a beautiful Telugu girl,thus redefining the phrase "padaharu anala telugutanam". Another character called Rendu Jadala Seetha later became a synonym for any girl wearing two plaits. As a gesture of recognition of his art and devotion to Ramayana, he was bestowed with the beautification of Bhadrachalam, a place of prominence for Hindus.