Thank you!! Look at the name board in the front. Please keep posting more steam pics!!

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2008 Sep 03 03:23:45 +0000

Yeah a mesmerising pic. The LP's posing for the pic. Wonderful Pic!!!Thanks

Posted by Abhishek Waykole on 2008 Aug 30 08:51:42 +0000

An Absolute beauty ! I regret not seeing any of those...
And the colour of the Sky also goes well with the Legend.

Posted by Chaitanya Gokhale on 2008 Aug 30 04:18:42 +0000

Dr. Jitendra, Travancore and Cochin were two different states. Though officially friendly states, there were always ideological differences between the two. After independence, the two states were merged to form the state of Travancore-Cochin (1947-1956), administrative capital at Trivandrum and Judicial capital at Cochin. Later, in 1956, the district of Malabar was merged with Travancore-Cochin to form the state of Kerala. Travancore pushed for a commonwealth of Independent states after independence but the king of Cochin, Sri. Kerala Varma joined the union of India immediately. This was more of a political move to "defeat" Travancore, and the commonwealth (spearheaded by States of Bhopal and Travancore) idea died off instantly

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2008 Jul 10 03:15:36 +0000

I had always wantd to see an MG pic of this section.. thanks Jimmy for this gem!

Posted by Sriram P on 2008 Jul 09 15:20:56 +0000

Thanks Jimmy for this piece of history. Did it really take 15 yrs. to complete? And didn't know that Travancore - Cochin was the first princely state to join India. I guess Hyderabad was the last one - Hyderabad and Kutch had their own currencies and railway stations within their boundaries accepted only those, and not the Indian rupee of that time.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2008 Jul 09 05:48:33 +0000

But, Weggi, who was this Ahamed

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2008 Mar 22 17:51:50 +0000

Reminds me of the film Sholey ;-)

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2008 Mar 22 16:07:43 +0000

Wow, thanks a lot for this

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2008 Mar 22 09:22:01 +0000

Thanks!

And I'd forgotten to add the date: January, 1984.

Posted by John Lacey on 2008 Mar 19 07:51:02 +0000