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What's tickling Jackie?

Updated on: 05 April,2010 10:37 AM IST  | 
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The man breach candy was renamed after, and the anonymous composer of kadam kadam badhaye ja, identified. History in the making reveals the faces behind famous acts, and the not-so-famous moments of illustrious politicos

What's tickling Jackie?

The man breach candy was renamed after, and the anonymous composer of kadam kadam badhaye ja, identified. History in the making reveals the faces behind famous acts, and the not-so-famous moments of illustrious politicos

IT'S not often that one thinks of history from the point of view of the witness, rather than a series of curious events that unfolded in the past. Aditya Arya and Indivar Kamtekar's coffee table book, History In The Making does just that through the works of photojournalist Kulwant Roy. Born in 1914, a majority of Roy's work falls between the '30s and '50s, chronicling the crucial pre and post-independence era. Roy passed away in 1984, bequeathing all his photographs and equipment to Arya, and thus the book was given shape.






Split wide open: The meeting to announce the 3rd June plan for the partition of India, attended by Congress and Muslim League leaders. (R to L) Shaukat Ali, MA Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Acharya Kripalani and Baldev Singh. 1947.


That's him! Bhulabhai Desai (the man Bhulabhai Desai Road, formerly Breach Candy, is named after), in a serious phone conversation at Birla House during the Congress Working Committee meeting. 1947.
He was a lawyer-politician from Gujarat. known for defending the three Indian National Army soldiers accused of treason during World War II


Puff daddies: Marshal Tito and Jawaharlal Nehru take time off for a smoke. Undated.


IPL? What's that? Jawaharlal Nehru at a cricket match between the Prime Minister's and the President's teams. 1953.


Tuning in to change: Captain Ram Singh, who had composed the patriotic song, Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja, plays the violin for Gandhiji at the Harijan Colony. 1945.


Tu tu main main: Mahatma Gandhi meeting MA Jinnah at his Delhi residence. Also seen is Shaukat Ali. Undated.


Lahore War Fund Wrestling: The wrestling carnival was arranged in aid of the Lahore war planes fund and police spitfire fund, which was held at Minto Park, Lahore. The Daula-Clark fight was a tame affair. The Indian took only 3 minutes to pin down his opponent and win the fight. This photo shows Daula (left, standing) and Clark (on the ground).


Fare thee well: Jawaharlal Nehru bids farewell to grandson Rajiv Gandhi, while embarking on a tour of Europe. Daughter Indira Gandhi is to his left. 1950s.


Why must shoes have laces? Lord Mountbatten at his last visit to Rajghat before leaving India. 1948


But other than a slightly one-dimensional view of India's history, the book also dwells on history of a specific kind -- of photojournalism. Look out for illustrations of how photographers had to manually intervene to create cut outs (they washed out the background) and how they created colour pictures by hand painting black and
white frames.

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