RAF Risalpur .....1931 / 1932

[ghazi52]

RAF Risalpur .....1931 / 1932

 

[ghazi52]

 

[litman]

some of the maintenance hangars and buildings in the photos are still there at risalpur.

the building of old officers mess and commandant CFT's residence are also clearly visible which have been renovated and extended over the period of decades .

those who constructed these buildings and those who lived in them are most likely dead by now. the world doesnt even know who they were . they are just "puranay zamanay k insan". and its not even 100 year old. after 100 years from today majority of us will also be forgotten and will be called as puranay zamanay k insan. this world is such a temporary place but still we think and act as if we are going to stay here for thousands of years.

 

[loanranger]

The Golden days.

some of the maintenance hangers and buildings in the photos are still there at risalpur.

the building of old officers mess and commandant CFT's residence are also clearly visible which have been renovated and extended over the period of decades .

those who constructed these buildings and those who lived in them are most likely dead by now. the world doesnt even know who they were . they are just "puranay zamanay k insan". and its not even 100 year old. after 100 years from today majority of us will also be forgotten and will be called as puranay zamanay k insan. this world is such a temporary place but still we think and act as if we are going to stay here for thousands of years.

Litman you touched my heart today

 

[Goenitz]

Besides human, who roamed around at that time, who built it, who used it, etc
I also think about the landscape.. so barren, vast and desolate.. now overcome by concrete jungle.. I miss 'Aam bagh' in my native town Okara.. it was taken down now.. and some old municipal planted trees too.. at least those were 100 years old.

 

[TNT]

The Golden days.


Litman you touched my heart today

Ahem golden days??? How exactly??? Those were the days of slavery and colonial occupation, how were they golden? Unless ur british or one of their descendants.

 

[litman]

Besides human, who roamed around at that time, who built it, who used it, etc
I also think about the landscape.. so barren, vast and desolate.. now overcome by concrete jungle.. I miss 'Aam bagh' in my native town Okara.. it was taken down now.. and some old municipal planted trees too.. at least those were 100 years old.

in one of these pics you can see the mountains of malakand and swat in the background. how beautiful those places would have been at that time. very little population, no deforestation . i am sure at that time swat would have been nothing less than paradise on earth.
even risalpur was so sparsely populated at that time. weather was cooler . i have heard from old people at risalpur that there used to be occasional light snow fall at risalpur in winters till sixtees. i dont know whether its true or not. in the past 50 years the world has seen a transformation which it didnt see in the entire human history. it used to be a far better place then today.

 

[loanranger]

Ahem golden days??? How exactly??? Those were the days of slavery and colonial occupation, how were they golden? Unless ur british or one of their descendants.

I didnot mean it in that way. Sit back down the British gave you your independence. They could have easily left us all in the hands of the hindus. You would have liked that wouldn't you?

 

[TNT]

I didnot mean it in that way. Sit back down the British gave you your independence. They could have easily left us all in the hands of the hindus. You would have liked that wouldn't you?

Maybe u meant it in other way. But the brits didnt give it to us, we took it. Had they left us alone, im sure we would have managed to separate atleast 3 muslim countries from India. Instead, they "managed" it and made sure muslims dong get much.

 

[loanranger]

Maybe u meant it in other way. But the brits didnt give it to us, we took it.

So we took these incredibly unfair borders and accepted them.Just like you say above we took them. So why blame the british.
The reality is if we had protested the British would have said fine your choice and would have given everything to hindus. What are the current 200 million muslims in India doing. Nothing. That would have been our fate if we had not taken what we got from the British. Whatever happened was for the best and by God's will. Do you question God's will son?

 

[TNT]

So we took these incredibly unfair borders and accepted them.Just like you say above we took them. So why blame the british.
The reality is if we had protested the British would have said fine your choice and would have given everything to hindus. What are the current 200 million muslims in India doing. Nothing. That would have been our fate if we had not taken what we got from the British. Whatever happened was for the best and by God's will. Do you question God's will son?

Lolz nice way to equate everything with God's will. If there was no separation, there would certainly have been a huge civil war. The result of which were uncertain. The brits knew this and managed partirion. Once accepting partition, our leaders had nochoice but to accept the unfair partition.

 

[loanranger]

Lolz nice way to equate everything with God's will. If there was no separation, there would certainly have been a huge civil war. The result of which were uncertain. The brits knew this and managed partirion. Once accepting partition, our leaders had nochoice but to accept the unfair partition.

Yes we took what we could. British were gracious enough to agree to Quaid. We got way more than the greedy hindus would ever let us have. So the British weren't as bad. This is the point we debated about.

 

[TNT]

Yes we took what we could. British were gracious enough to agree to Quaid. We got way more than the greedy hindus would ever let us have. So the British weren't as bad. This is the point we debated about.

It depends on how u look at it. Whole of india was ours and then majority given to hindus. Greedy hindus wont give away anything but muslims would have taken by force. The brits also took india from mainly muslim rulers, so technically that makes them bigger enemy of ours than they are of hindus.

 

[Trango Towers]

I didnot mean it in that way. Sit back down the British gave you your independence. They could have easily left us all in the hands of the hindus. You would have liked that wouldn't you?

Oh dear....we fought for independence. The hindus didnt fight.

 

[loanranger]

Oh dear....we fought for independence. The hindus didnt fight.

Remember Gandhis marches? They fought alright.