Indian Black And White Pictures !

Tweet If you are not new to my Blog you must have seen my Post Rare Pictures - Before Independence so, in the continuity of that post i have collected some more rare Pictures just before or after Independence which i am gonna post today here. This time around the pictures are particularly from northern India. Black and White Pictures fascinates me a lot , they give you an insight to the era that has gone. All the pictures i have got from Google Images ,time and place of all the pictures could not be confirmed. 

India Gate

If you have visited India Gate you could easily see the difference in terrain in this pic,you have lots of trees and greenery there now also one can see North Block and South Block in background.

Qutub Minar.1858

This is one of my fav place in Delhi, Qutub Minar still stands tall firmly, the area in and around Qutub Minar have lots of old unexplored places too.

Kashmere Gate,1895

All i know about Kashmere Gate is that we have ISBT(Inter State Bus Terminus) there, have someone seen the Gate there still ?

Jama Masjid

At present if you visit Jama Masjid and area around it you will fight to get a foothold. Sometime I wonder how its gonna be if we could go back to past and visit all the places that are very crowded today.

Connaught Place Aerial View Below

When i first saw this Pictures i could not understand how Connaught Place is so close to Rashtrapati Bhawan and Parliament House and that too both are in opposite direction[Connaught Place should be somewhere Behind Parliament House but instead its in front of this pic] then carefully studying this pic i came to know that this pic is combination of two pics the above one is of Rashtrapati Bhawan, North Block,South Block and Parliament house and the Below one is of Connaught place [when it was being constructed].

Mahatma Gandhi

Here you could see Mahatma Gandhi being Welcomed by Indian Army Personnel at Harijan Colony, Delhi,in 1946.

Jawahar Lal Nehru

Jawahar Lal Nehru addresse press just before Independence in Delhi in 1947 .

Mohd. Ali Jinnah , Allahabad

Mohd. Ali Jinnah sits on a Sofa over a truck in Allahabad during a Muslim league  Session in 1940s.

Bhakra Nangal Dam Site

Workers gather outside Bhakra Nangal Dam site to collect their wages from a Pay Van in 1950s.

Mahatma Gandhi and Mohd. Ali Jinnah

Mahatma Gandhi and Mohd. Ali Jinnah during a heated conversion[Very Famous Picture]

Wrestling

Wrestler Daula pin down British Clark at a wrestling match for a fundraiser in Lahore in 1930s.

Jawahar Lal Nehru,1947

Lord Mountbatten Swears Jawahar Lal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India in Delhi in 1947.

 Train

Refugees travelling on train, Hindus and Sikhs to India and Muslims to Pakistan were easy targets for Killers while Refugees cross the Borders.

Red Fort

Jawahar Lal Nehru at Red Fort at Indian Independence Day.

Calcutta,1948

Shocked people gather in Calcutta after hearing Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination news.

 Crowd at Mahatma Gandhis Funeral

Large No. of people gather in Delhi to pay their last tribute to Mahatma Gandhi , 1948.

Tell me how did you liked these pics ? Are you a fan of Black and White Pictures ? If you have some you could share them.

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One Pleasure that I Always look After

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There are lot of pleasures that we human beings enjoy and look after but none attracts me more as the one about which i am gonna write about today. I wait for it every month but it does not last for much not more than half an hour and it didn't cost much either, but it varies from person to person. Yes sometimes they are filthy, dirty but its just matter of closing of your eyes and you are on Cloud Nine. So not taking much of your time i disclose the pleasure that i am talking about it is the time that i spend in a Hair Saloon for getting an Hair Cut.


I remember when i was a child i used to go with my Father for having an hair cut and Barber used to put a Wooden Plank on two handles of Chair for me to sit on so that my posture could be elevated , i was so embarrassed by this as i do not want to be seen as a child.But then this problem get solved when i gained some height.




[ The Picture which used to be here is now deleted as the original Photographer of that Pic [to whom I have not taken permission to put it here[unintentionally]] does not want it to be displayed here ]

 



Now from past 8 years i visit a neighborhood Hair Cutting Saloon called Taj Hair Saloon no its not near to Taj Mahal neither i have seen any replica of it inside the saloon. Its an average looking Saloon with 3 Chairs in it and lots of Empty Boxes of Creams, hair colors and Powders all for display and yes we have a TV too.

This Guy Looks Like Osaf 

I remember when i first went there a guy who was younger then me and he was given the duty to cut my hair and he did very well despite being new to this profession, that guy is now the owner of that saloon. His name is Osaf he was small guy at that time now he stands taller then me.


As usual you have to wait for your turn but in the mean time you can enjoy watching Zee Cinema Channel yes you have to watch it even if you don't like, its mandatory cause you don't get the remote or you can go for Amar Ujala Newspaper if both of these things do not fascinates you can do chit chat with Osaf while he is busy with his work but he is always up for this. But i opt for Zee Cinema, even i don't ever watch it at my home but  God knows why i like it at his shop.


When my turn comes the first question he ask is Bhaiyya Wohi Chhote Chhote Krdu ?(Bro same cut with small hair) and i node in affirmative. He will cover my body with a sheet which is tightly tugged at my Neck that virtually Suffocates me. A brisk spray of cold water on my hair and he starts his job. I just relax at this moment while he continues with his job turning my head in all directions and i politely acknowledge that. In between he will start conversation with me, he will ask me where are you working now,what kind of job is yours and all sorts of questions and Gossips. Once when there were no customers except me he told his full family history how the entire generation of his family is in this Business and they are happy doing this work, i enjoy conversing with him i guess this nature of them also makes a customer a permanent one like me[Good Strategy].


You feel like you are in heaven when this hair cutting procedure is being applied on you. I just look at myself in the Mirror whether he is going ok or not with my hair, which my family members compares with Jhadu saying there is no other derivative for them. Even the Barber do suffers with them Bhaiyya bahut he Mote Baal hai aapke [Bro your hair are very thick ], when they grow big they move in every directions hence i prefer to keep them short only


After finishing with the hair he always ask me Shaving bhi krdu aapki ya face massage krdu ? [Would you like to get shaved or try face Massage] but i always decline his offer ,Shaving i do at home only and face massage i know will not make my face any prettier but he gives me a Complementary Champi which is the best part, i so so like this it rejuvenates you. Continuous tapping of his fingers over my head beating the hell out of my Brain but finally Good things always comes to an end and so this also for me.


After paying him[which is not very much] i return home thinking how long will they take to grow again so that i get a chance to visit the Taj Hair Cutting Saloon again.

This is Manish after his new hair cut, by seeing this pic i got an idea to write this post.

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Internet And Me

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I remember i first heard about Internet in late nineties when we moved to Betul(M.P) , all i knew was that you can get knowledge about anything on this Planet by it. Our School was having the Computers and we used to learn Basic language on it which i hated and i also came across Encarta first there but internet was still not available in School . So me and my friends ventured out for it, but it was expensive about 40 Rupees per hour and at that time it was little too much for us.


Then after collecting some money me and my Friend went at the cafe, reached there but now what to do with it ? But there was Google , type a keyword and you get related  info about it . As we were growing kids first thing that we looked out for were Porno websites , getting the things that we were not having any access to was something special but we were scared what if someone saw us watching it but to our surprise most of the people were doing the same thing.


Next thing was E-Mail , how cool it is to send a letter to a person who is miles apart from you in a second so we now moved to Yahoo to have an email account . Now the time came for the address of our first email id , it must be related to our identity my Name is Abhishek and my Friends was Raja so after some thoughts we came out with abhiraj@yahoo.com but whom to mail  ? all our friends live nearby then whats the use of this id ? This question was solved by Yahoo Messenger , we logged into it then came some rooms to venture obviously we moved towards Romance room we chatted there with Filipino,Vietnamese,Korean every Asian girls but Indian girls were hard to find .


At that time Internet Cafes used to have small cabins which used to have doors also but cant understand why you need to have a closed cabin for surfing net[actually we all know why they have been placed] Even i used to hear that X girl from our class has went with Y Boy to the cafe, yes they were proving to be a perfect place for some private moments.


When i joined college we had a period where we used to access net at our Internet lab but that period was not enough for me, I used to bunk classes with Manish to be in lab, if we were not in Class the best place to find us was the Internet lab.


Then one day my Friend who used to study in Pune came and asked me are you on Orkut ? i said whats  Orkut ? he said its a social networking site where you can get in touch with your friends but you need to have an Invitation for it.We moved from Pillar to Post to get its invitation but nobody was using Orkut in our college, at last i remember Manish came to me one day and told that Pankaj Shukla[our fellow class mate] is using Orkut and we can get invitation from him after that it was only Orkut for us, after some days orkut was banned in College but we were clever we came out with some proxy sites and continued with it.


Then i came to know about Blogs,i thought i would make some money from it with Adsense so i made a blog which didn't attracted any traffic. I even made my Blog as home page of all the Computers in our Internet lab but that didn't worked too.You can check my old blog here but i have changed its template . Now its been hacked by someone.


To use net at home was one thing i was still looking after and when i got my phone i started using net at home but the speed was like the pace of a Worm, sometimes it took hours to open a single page . 

My USB Modem and Laptop

Now when i started working last year i was determined to have a stable net connection. I got this Reliance Netconnect Modem which gives me maximum downloading speed of 20kbps , the MODEM cost me 2150 Rupees with a montly rental of 499 Rupees. This Modem happens to be the only thing that i had purchased till date from my Salary for me.


Thanks to the Internet i have made some very good friends and also i am in touch with existed friends. There is lot more we can do with it but I think its Best is yet to come.





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10 things I want to do or have !

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Its been two hours that i came back from Office and finally Electricity is here , twitter timeline and TV news are filled with news of Amitabh winning National Award[again] and All Party meet to discuss Kashmir has concluded[with no conclusion].I am determined to write a short post today, lets see if i could deliver.

So today i will jolt down Ten Things that i want to have or want to do. From yesterday evening i am listing them and finally i got the last one, i thought it would be very easy to write them up but eventually turned out quite difficult for me. 


Apple iPhone


The most talked about phone without any doubt, i have seen it in hands of many people but haven't got a chance to hold it yet. There must be something in it as its so popular, but i don't like iPhone4 shape will prefer older versions.

Update - Have myself bought a Smartphone Samsung Galaxy Ace for myself after researching a lot about the phones in my budget and finally landing on it, its an Android phone and iPhone4 is not on my priority list anymore. 


Kindle


How different it would be to read a Book without even turning a single page ? Carrying millions of Books on a single device. Kindle can do this all and more.

Update - Enjoying Kindle services on my new Phone Samsung Galaxy Ace : )


Google Page Rank for my Blog


Its been four months since i started my blog its Alexa rank has been improving ever since, but having a GPR is ultimate thing, last time it was updated on 3rd April 2010[my birthdate] i am not expecting it for me this time but if i could get it next year it would be amazing.

Update - To my Surprise my Blog at its first attempt got Google Page Rank of 3 which I never expected but some of my post has done very well and are on the top of the charts of Google but the Google Page Rank of the Blog declined to 2 in the next update mainly because of me not being indulging into Blogging much but now I am trying to be back again and work on my Blog with a fresh thinking.


Train Journey


Its been a long time that i had traveled on a train now i am missing it very much. I want to travel far away i don't know where but in a Sleeper Coach with Side Lower Birth.


Increase my Weight to 60kg


Yes i am thin and skinny and my weight is around 54kg, my parents are always worried for me. Two years back i got it upto 58kg but lost it now could i get  
to 60kg ? let see.


Earn some money from my blog


I know placing ads will not do it for me as not much traffic here but i dearly want to earn some money by blogging its my secondary reason for being here.


Play Station


I am not a big gamer and don't like the games related with missions , i like racing games and my fav is Formula 1 and Play Station will provides ultimate gaming experience.


Crack a National level Competitive Exam


Its been a long time dream for me just to satisfy me that i have some  caliber in me, for that i have to work hard and thats the only thing that i don't indulge into.


DSLR Camera


I have a digital Camera but i don't get the kind of pictures i wanted to have, DSLR Camera should help in getting some nice pictures i guess, also it looks cool[The Camera].


T-Shirt with my Blogs Domain on it


See this pic of Dinesh Wagle wearing a T-Shirt with his blogs domain on it looks cool na ? Tajim told me we could get custom made from Pringoo .Would try to get one for me.

Update - I won a Tee from 24hoursloot by RTing their tweets and its a cool Tee with some kinda Band image on it.


So finally looks like i was successful in getting a short post, do tell what are the things that you want to have or do.

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