Vintage India from 1950s-1990s
Bouffant hairstyle
Bouffant is a puffy rounded hairstyle where the hair is raised high on the head. In one variety it covers the ears or in another it is hanging down the sides. It comes from the French word bouffer – to puff up. It draws inspiration from the beehive. This style started picking up in the…
Landline telephone
A landline telephone or fixed line is a telephone service given to a person via cable. This could be both metal conductors or optical fibre. This wire originates from a telephone company and connects to a distribution point in the exchange area and through a single cable reaches each subscriber. Today, you can have wireless…
Inland Letter
It is a thin sheet of light blue paper for writing the message. This is foldable and ready to stick. It has an impressive postage stamp on it of specific value. This is only issued by the post office for public. This was the mode of communication within India and was completely handled by India…
Coffee House
The coffee house in India in the late 1950’s to 1980’s was a special place. Here, memories were built, discussions were held, debates raged, peace reigned over a cup of coffee and newspaper. It was a place for escaping the hustle and bustle of life as also a place to meet up. The thought that…
Pager
1990s India was a period of major change and the pager was one of the key technological changes that hit India at the time. It became the status symbol for the mobile professional. History of pager This was invented by Al Gross in 1949. The first systems were used in the 1950s and 1960s in…
TV Antenna and Doordarshan
Doordarshan is a state owned public broadcaster in India. It started daily transmission in 1965 as part of All India Radio with a five – minute news bulletin and Krishi Darshan in 1967 (Indian television’s longest running programme). This was started in Bombay and Amritsar in 1972. By 1975, it was extended to seven Indian…
Photo Studio
In this blog, I am looking back at the era where taking a photo was a big program by itself. The people whose photo was to be taken would get together and decide a time and date when the actual photo shoot should happen. They would also decide the dress/attire to be worn, maybe have…
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