Historical Rare Vintage Old Photographs and Videos of Indian Sub-Continent. (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan)
A beautiful dawn, a golden hour. A beautiful campus and better, the breathtaking tricks nature plays on us. So grateful to be a part of this, Thank you Universe.
Calcutta Bungalow
Some Old Nostalgic photographs of Calcutta - sorry Kolkata from 1940 Those were the good old days when we could cross the roads as and when ...
This shot was taken in one of the oldest parts of Calcutta. I love how these little lanes break out into the bigger streets. Some of them aren't even wide enough to accommodate the passage for two people! The contraption you see in front of you (half-done by the crop) is a hand-pulled rickshaw. You sit on it and a man pulls you to your destination. It's been around since the inception of the British Empire. These (or variants) were very popular in most places in Asia till about half a century back. Then again, Calcutta exists in multiple time zones.
I don't quite know where to begin. There were many reasons that I went to Calcutta. My sister's great desire to see my pishi (bua/father's sister)-my father's only sibling alive. A cousin's phone call inviting us to attend the wedding of his daughter. Another cousin's recent brush with cancer. An open invitation from our friends…
The Calcutta Madrassa. Established in 1780, Calcutta 700016.
K-127-20 - Calcutta (Kolkata): Street scene - Indian Residential quarter, Oct. 21, 1954
North Calcutta has some seriously wonderful architecture.
Vintage photographs of Calcutta from 1920's... Before the Howrah Bridge, banks of Ganges. Street view; A snake charmer, shoe polish boys, the rickshaws...
19thC, Frith, F. Calcutta, Metcalfe Hall 4218
British era saloon from the streets of Calcutta
