New Municipal Office Under Construction
Construction of the Karachi Municipal Corporation offices began in 1895 with foundation stone laying.
1930-1939
Gandhi Garden Karachi
A beautiful real photo postcard given the dark curtain between the trees. After 1947 it was renamed Karachi Zoological and Botanical Gardens; it had been called Gandhi Gardens in honor of a visit by Mahatma Gandhi in 1934.
Burns Garden Karachi
"After the merciless grind of a rough day," wrote the Sindhi writer and nationalist Ibrahim Joyo (1915-2017) in his short story In the Name of Allah, "how soothing it is to feel the balmy breeze in Karachi's Burns Gardens, especially on a fresh
(Late) Sukhdeo
Sukhdeo (Sukhdev) was born as the son of Ram Lal in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad in Pakistan).
Sukhdev (1907 - 1931) was a very popular revolutionary in India's freedom struggle.
Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta
![Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/dharumtalla-road_0.jpg?itok=sarlOTGT "Dharumtalla [Dharmatala] Road, Calcutta")
Dharmatala (Dharumtalla) Road, now Lenin Sarani in central Kolkata, is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Kolkata. Its original name means "holy street."
Eid Mubarak
The Bengali writer Nirad Chaudhuri (1897-1999) described the Eid celebrations in his birthplace of Kishorganj, Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh: "Since the Id moves backwards round the year it had no particular association with season and weather as had
Long Live the Revolution! Shrimati Sarojini Naidu
An advertising postcard celebrating the Independence struggle and the poet Sarojini Naidu, who the Turkish poet Halide Edib, then on a visit to India, described in her book Inside India (1938, p. 44):
"Sarojini is a poet.
A Rajput Toi
[Original caption] A member of the ancient Hindu fighting race which flourished and conquered mainly in Western and Northern India in the twelfth century. [end]
Sreemati Kamaladevi Chattopadhaya
Kamaladevi Chattopadhaya was born into an intellectual family in Mangalore on the west coast of India.
Capitol Theatre Peshawar
A rare night time photograph of an old cinema in the Saddar Bazaar area of Peshawar, said to have been founded around 1913 and demolished in 2020.
