King of Nation

Bhagat Singh!. O, he's like the Che of India!
Anyone can claim him. Who doesn't like a man with a gun?

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A rear-window sticker seen on a tourist cab at Haridwar.

dung monolith

Pensive like some ancient deity.

Some place near Muzaffarnagar

Note, Netaji Shook Hitler's Hand

Subhash Chandra Bose should have known better. Bose visited Berlin in 1939 to enlist Nazi support for his independence movement and shook Hitler's Hand.

And I come to have more and more respect for Gandhi. If you say yes to A of  Z then B of Y certainly follow and C of X can't be logically denied. So Gandhi said clear no to A.

Image found in Hindustan Times (dated April 17, 2009) story on a collector of vintage currency and coins.

I looked around for some more information on this note and found this:

It turns out that Azad Hind may have never actually minted any banknotes meant as currency ( according to a rumor Germans printed banknotes for Bose, but  allegedly they were lost when the ship they were sent in was torpedoed on its way to Japan). The 1000 (currency unit less) notes depicting Bose shaking the hand of Adolf Hitler were commemorative propaganda banknote minted at the end of the war and meant to be sold with the profits going to various charities for the benefit of Indian National Army veterans.

Read more about this and the Propaganda wars over India during WW2 at psywarrior.com 
Do check it out of some vintage propaganda leaflets and other related graphic material of the era.
It's an article inspired by Dr. Arunkumar Bhatt's book  'Psychological Warfare and India' (2006).

Doordarshan Reader

And this is how in the 80s, late at night, they introduced films to the viewer.

video link

The film is Wadia Movietone's The Court Dancer (1941)
Thanks to an incredible effort by Alaknanda2007
Do read about it.

Young Salma Sultan brings you Samachar

Salma Sultan, read news on Doordarshan between 1967 and 1997. But that doesn't tell much about her. In the color 80s she became known for the rose worn low in her hair and her style saris.
I remember when she used to say. 'Namaskar. Aaj ke Samachar. Is prakar...' and sitting in front of the TV set old ladies of the house would reply back to her greeting saying, 'Namaskar. Namaskar. Bless you! Urzu! (Kashmiri word for Good Health)' Watching television was something else in those days.

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Here's how Salma Sultan  started out:

Her entry into news reading too had been quite a hilarious experience. After doing her post graduation from English Literature from I. P. College, Delhi, she started working with Doordarshan as an announcer and presenter. "Those days (1967-68), they would not take young people for news reading but mature ones. Pratima Puri and Gopal Kaul were regular faces then. But Kaul never wanted to read news so once, when it was time to read news, he came entered the office with a completely-shaven head! Panic-stricken producer started looking for someone to replace him and their choice zeroed on me. I was asked to give a quick audition." Always ready to take up challenges, Salma followed, "When I came back to the control room after audition, I witnessed a pin-drop silence and everyone sitting stunned. With a chocking voice I asked what happened, and was told that I read the 15-minutes news so quickly that they could not even start the roll!" Such was her nervousness that made DD realise that they should train people for news reading too! 

- read more at a fine old article at The Hindu

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First image comes from Hindustan Times (June 7, 2009) and the second one from India Today (Anniversary Issue, July 03, 2006)