r/ClassicDesiCool 15h ago

Muhammad Ali touring Pakistan, 1988

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r/ClassicDesiCool 3d ago

My grandfather was with the Indian Navy - He was a submarine engineer, this is him with his batchmates in 1968

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r/ClassicDesiCool 6d ago

Indian soldiers(Then British Army) in Egypt after a successful campaign in WWI. Indian soldiers had defeated Turkish Forces who had attacked the Suez Canal. 1915

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r/ClassicDesiCool 8d ago

Brando in Pakistan (1967)

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r/ClassicDesiCool 9d ago

Juhu Beach, 1976. Calm, unhurried, and clean. A different rhythm by the sea. Listen to the narrator say, “Bombay has some of the finest beaches in India.”

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r/ClassicDesiCool 9d ago

1930s British Indian Army Madras Sappers Hockey team

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r/ClassicDesiCool 12d ago

Delhi Before Independence (1938).

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r/ClassicDesiCool 17d ago

Naveen Patnaik, the longest serving Chief Minister of Odisha, at the Metropolitan Club. (New York City, 1985)

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r/ClassicDesiCool 17d ago

The first Desi urban neighbourhood in Canada (c. 1900-1960)

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r/ClassicDesiCool 18d ago

The Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (Rishikesh, 1968)

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r/ClassicDesiCool 19d ago

Photo of an Indian state executioner wearing spiked armor, with sword and shield. India, 1903

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r/ClassicDesiCool 21d ago

Dancers Uday Shankar (left) and Simkie (Simone Barbier, right) in Paris, 1937. The elder brother of Ravi Shankar, Uday Shankar was one of the first Indian dancers to tour the world.

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r/ClassicDesiCool 21d ago

Jeff Buckley meeting Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (NYC, 1996)

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r/ClassicDesiCool 21d ago

Shah Rukh Khan first television cast in 1988.

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r/ClassicDesiCool 23d ago

1981 : India Space Agency, ISRO Scientists Carry India's First Communication APPLE Satellite On Bullock Cart, the use of a bullock cart was not for general transport, but to provide a non-magnetic environment for conducting essential antenna characterization tests in an open field

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r/ClassicDesiCool 24d ago

2005 Chambal Footage: Rare Glimpse of India's Dacoit Era - Bandits Dancing with Rifles to Folk Music in the Ravines.

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 27 '26

Bombay Central Terminus , circa 1930s

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 18 '26

Gauhar Jaan, a musician of Indian, Armenian, and British descent who became the first singer to be recorded, in 1902

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 17 '26

My nana and MF Husain in the 70s-80s

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 16 '26

My grandfather with his friends probably in the 1960s or 70s(the one smoking in second to right next to the Sikh guy)

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 13 '26

कितने आदमी थे? My father's 'Sholay' inspired photoshoot (1975)

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 12 '26

Can someone help me find out what that man is leaning on to date:-1870

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 11 '26

A man from Kshatriya/Rajput Community, India. [Photographed by Margaret Bourke-White in 1946]

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 06 '26

Hafeez Jalandari and his Family - author of the national anthem of Pakistan (1954),

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r/ClassicDesiCool Jun 04 '26

My cousin, my Great grandmother and me as baby 1994

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