Mumbai in Peace

There was a time when the people in Mumbai so called ‘Bombay’ (before 1996) stayed in peace. This photo was taken on 1894 at VT. The peaceful days prevailed in the city at the time when this picture was taken. At 1890's Mumbai was known for the largest seaports on the Arabian Sea due to the opening of Suez Canal in 1869. Over the next thirty years from 1869, the city grew into a major urban centre, spurred by an improvement in infrastructure and the construction of many of the city's institutions. However, now the city is struggling with terrorist attacks. Recently, the attacks, carried out by terrorists in ten places using automatic weapons and grenades, began on 26 November 2008 and ended on 29 November 2008. One seventy-nine innocent people were killed in this attack. Terrorists plan had started from VT station (Railway Station shown in the picture) in Mumbai by firing the people rapidly whom they saw in the station. That is the day when peaceful place turned into a graveyard for the sinless people.

Peak Of Racial Discrimination

Emmett Louis Till and his mom Mamie Till Bradley

There was a day in the history America, when the peak of racial discrimination took place. That was the period, when African Americans were under attack, that no African-American male in the South was safe. A fourteen year old boy Emmett Louis Till lived in Chicago with his mother Mamie Till Bradley, a teacher. Emmett and his cousin planned a trip to Mississippi to visit their relatives. Before leaving Chicago, his mother clearly advised him about how to interact with white people. Till's mother understood that race relations in Mississippi were very different from those in Chicago. Emmett arrived in Mississippi on Sunday, August 21st.

Roy Bryant (left), with wife Carolyn and J.W. Milam (right) light up cigars after being acquitted of murder

On Wednesday, Emmett and his five cousins went into town, Money, Mississippi, for picking cotton for his uncle. They visited Bryant’s Grocery store to buy some candy. The store was owned by a white husband and wife, Roy Bryant and Carolyn Bryant. Emmett friends challenged to flirt with Carolyn. It seems Emmett says “Bye baby” to Carolyn when he left the store. This news spread quickly around the store. Roy heard this story when he returned from work. He was very angry with Emmett.

Brutally killed Emmett

On August 28, Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam, began looking for Emmett Till. They found him at his uncle's cabin. Entering the cabin with flashlights and Colt 45 pistols, they kidnapped Emmett. To teach him lesson, they drove him to a weathered shed on a plantation in neighboring Sunflower County, where they beat and then shot him. Three days later, Emmett’s corpse was pulled from the depths of the Tallahatchie River. It was weighted down by a seventy-five pound cotton gin fan, which was tied around Till’s neck with barbed wire, his right eye hanging midway to his cheek, his nose flattened, and a bullet hole through his head.

Mamie after seeing the body of Emmett's

How a mother would feel the pain of her son’s death. It’s unexplainable pain. She made the decision to have an open casket funeral. She wanted the world to know what had happened to her son. Fifty-thousand people attended the funeral of Emmett Till. Milam and Bryant were never charged for Emmett’s death.

NO MORE WAR

The first nation to wish for peace is Japan, by reason of the tragedy happened 64 years ago. Moreover, the tragedy was atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These are the rare and shocking pictures of the ruins. Little boy and Fat-Man were the very hot topic in the year 1945. Because ‘Little boy and Fat-Man’ are the atomic bombs which were dropped by the American army on the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which slaughtered more than 2,50,000 people in August 1945 during the period of World War-II. When the bombs were dropped, black smoke rose from the ground up to the sky reaching a height of several thousand meters, and covered the whole city. People experienced the hell on that day.







The people who died do not know why they were killed. American armies snatched the lives of innocent people and guiltless children. The only craving of the people in this world is “NO MORE WARS”.

Cellular Jail & The Darkest days

Andaman is one of the beautiful islands in the world. However, when we think of Andaman, first thing to hit our mind is ‘Cellular Jail’ in Andaman. The name, cellular jail, was derived due to this solitary formation of the cells that prevented any prisoner from communicating with any other. The jail was surrounded by sea water and A-Grade security was provided so that no one can escape from jail. Most of the prisoners were freedom fighters. The prisoners were treated roughly. The food that was given to them was not fitted for human consumption. Prisoners were not allowed to meet with each other.





After the death of 3 prisoners due to Hunger-Strike in the year 1933, some of the facilities were provided like light in the cells, prisoners were allowed to meet each other etc. Finally, on August 15, 1947, when India became independent the penal settlement was closed down. On Public demand the central tower of the Cellular Jail has been declared a protected monument, with plaques put up to commemorate the famous occupants of these dreadful cells. Even so, Cellular Jail is one of the murkiest chapters in the history of the colonial rule in India. The people who fought to claim their own country’s independence were called as terrorists by British on those days. Before 1947 the Cellular Jail was a place for Jailbirds, but now it is a place for vacationers.

*First rare picture was taken during the construction of Jail
**Second rare picture was taken in the year 1917