Rare & Old Photos of India - Interesting & thought provoking!!

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Marxist Revolutionary Che Guevera in India - 1959

(PS: I hate commies, but history is history)

 

[Levina]

who is this old man? he looks like Santa Claus or Mirza Ghalib!

I bet his Topi's/Cap's color is red too!

Thats RABINDRANATH TAGOREEE!

 

[scorpionx]

I always wonder if Netaji had an inkling about the kind of monsters he was meeting with in Germany

Even if Bose was exposed to the darker side of Nazi Germany (which is hardly likely), I don't blame him for ignoring it. Especially when he rejected Gandhian policy of nonviolence long ago and was hell bent upon utilizing the crisis the Emperor was deeply merged in.
When all the political leadership (except Jinnah) had no idea on which side to take in both for strategic and ethical reasons, Bose chose a side. It was the time when Congress was thinking giving Imperial Japan passage to the middle East and Iraq where they could meet their Nazi and Fascist ally. There is no reason to believe that our leader's sense of ethics were much worried about the Nanking massacre five years ago. This is why, implicating Bose for his alleged alliance with Nazi Germany looks a little unnecessary to me; however race conscious Germany was never wholeheartedly welcoming to Bose and Hitler continued to look Indians with contempt.

(PS: I hate commies, but history is history)

I know there are plenty of reasons to hate communists in India but given the post world war American Intervention in South American politics, Che looks like an angel compared to Indian communists.

Churchill and Co. were no angels, and Churchill famously said...

Angel!! He was a bigot and racist.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

who is this old man? he looks like Santa Claus or Mirza Ghalib!

I bet his Topi's/Cap's color is red too!

This Santa Claus was a genius and a Nobel prize winner. Poet, musician, writer etc etc.Lets just say he was a jack and a master of all trades.

He is also the only guy in the world to have ever written national anthems of two different countries.

 

[Marshmallow]

Thats RABINDRANATH TAGOREEE!

Some freedom fighter heyna?

 

[Ragnar]

who is this old man? he looks like Santa Claus or Mirza Ghalib!

I bet his Topi's/Cap's color is red too!

Some googling would be appreciated before you insult great historical personalities- a Nobel prize winner at that. Your comment is not only in poor taste but also disrespectful of the elderly.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

Some googling would be appreciated before you insult great historical personalities- a Nobel prize winner at that. Your comment is not only in poor taste but also disrespectful of the elderly.

How is it disrespectful ? The old man does look like a Santa Claus

Dhyan Chand in Los Angeles Olympics - 1932

 

[dray]

I always wonder if Netaji had an inkling about the kind of monsters he was meeting with in Germany , maybe enemy's enemy is not always a friend
Bose with Heinrich Himmler, 1943

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose called Hitler “A mad man” after personally meeting him in May of 1942.

Joseph Stalin killed much more people than Hitler, but that didn't prevent us, the government of independent & sovereign India, to become best friends of USSR.

Our soldiers fought for British in both WW1 & WW2, many volunteered, were the British saints? And what about American history?

Some times I wonder which version of history should I believe???
Churchill and Co. were no angels, and Churchill famously said.....
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History is always written by the victors, Hitler was evil, but he was not the only evil.

This link has a good debate: Joseph Stalin killed more people than Hitler. My question is how does Hitler get all the publicity?

 

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Legendary film maker Satyajit ray holding Oscar Award weeks before his death

 

[scorpionx]

Never heard of him....

Guru of extremist revolutionaries. Master mind in attempt to assassinate Lord Hardinge way back in 1912 when Indians did not even hear of any one called Gandhi. A hugely respected figure in Japan too.

 

[Marshmallow]

Some googling would be appreciated before you insult great historical personalities- a Nobel prize winner at that. Your comment is not only in poor taste but also disrespectful of the elderly.

I apologize if you were offended....but it was actually about a joke on a pic that @levina once had as her DP here....i think it was the same old man!

 

[ExtraOdinary]

In that case I hope you get called Santa Claus too on your deathbed.

Err. he is chilling in a train, not on his deathbed.

 

[Marshmallow]

@Ragnar

besides all Indians looks same Tu Is Mey Mera Kia Kasur Hey!

In that case I hope you get called Santa Claus too on your deathbed.

come on Chillax!

 

[Ragnar]

Err. he is chilling in a train, not on his deathbed.

He looks frail and sick and died the following year. NVM anyway.. I will delete my comment

I apologize if you were offended....but it was actually about a joke on a pic that @levina once had as her DP here....i think it was the same old man!

NVM

 

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Bose travels from Germany to Japan.

The crew of Japanese submarine I-29 after the rendezvous with German submarine U-180 300 nautical miles southeast of Madagascar; Bose is sitting in the front row (28 April 1943).

@Nihonjin1051 something for you..

The I-29 was sunk by US Navy on 26 July 1944. Among the dead was I-29's Commanding Officer, Commander Takakazu Kinashi, Japan's highest-scoring submarine "ace". Earlier in the war, as skipper of I-29's sister ship I-19, Kinashi torpedoed and sank the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp and damaged both the battleship USS North Carolina and the destroyer USS O'Brien during the same attack.O'Brien later sank as a result of the torpedo damage and North Carolina was under repair at Pearl Harbor until November 16, 1942, a notable achievement that is still considered to this day to be the most effective torpedo salvo ever fired in naval history. Kinashi was honored by a rare two-rank posthumous promotion to Rear Admiral.