Magnificent. My dad used to tell us about his great uncle being posted at Quetta around 1936 as a railway official. He said his children used to dress up in Pathani suit and kulley waali pagri and hence addressed as Pathan. The family often talked about the earthquake of '36 and how the family survived it. However our family is Hindu but those gorey chittey pathan looking members were pride of our family too.
Another beautiful episode as always. And you have actually summarized the story in this episode. This Building had alot of visitors in addition to Mr. Jinnah. Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto stayed with ZAB's mother for quite some in this building or the previous one, as he had married an outsider plus out of religion, so had to lay low till things cooled off and till Khan of Qalat's intervention worked in his favor. And very few know what you said about Gwadar being taken over by the bedouins......hehehehe. Pity, the munificence of the Khan of Qalat could not be paid-back by the Omanese. Sir Aga Khan did a favor to Pakistan which cannot be repaid, just because he & Jinnah, both born & from the same village, Jhirk, in addition to being the leader of Ismailis, a faith shared by Quaid-e-Azam, whom now the textbooks claim to be born in Karachi. Sir Aga Khan-I house is still in Jhirk and maintained by the Aga Khan Foundation. And amazingly it had a railway station which few cities had then. Khan of Qalat's house in Karachi-DHA Phase 5 (Gizri) is also in Art Deco Style, built in the Late 1950-early 1960's and bears quite a resemblance to his house in Qalat.
There were quite a few Art Deco buildings and homes in Delhi till the 1970s. Only a handful are still around. But a great Polish Art Deco artist Stefan Norblin came to India in the late 1930s and built some magnificent palaces in India, especially those of Jodhpur and Morvi. Mumbai too had many beautiful Art Deco buildings of which some still survive in very good condition.
Murshad, there were so many such bungalows in Amritsar till 90s. And then they fell pray to the mind boggling expansion and commercialisation. All demolished to make way for hideous mega marts and showrooms. Particularly on Mall Road and Lawrence Road. In the eye of my mind I can still see these magnificent structures.
واہ چھینا جی ! آپ بھی باقیات کو محفوظ کر دیں۔ Wel done.Chhina Jee ! Yours goodself should also preserve remnant places as traveller writer on the foot steps of Mr Salman Rashid. Is there any traces of " Safeer Hind Press" in Amritsar? Perhaphs in Hall Bazar , Belonging to a Padree / Christian peacher.
We have some art deco like structures in Mumbai and Kolkata, in Mumbai, can be seen near the marine drive and Malabar hills , they are mostly privately owned buildings. It was a pleasant looking design methodology . New buildings are all just bland high rises with no attention paid to the architecture of the block or the city in general. (Not all, but most of them)
We too had many art deco buildings all across Pakistan. Even in villages where builders in the 1950s copied what they had seen in the cities. While those in the villages are still relatively safe, nearly all such buildings in the cities have been razed and replaced with characterless high rises.
Yes. I saw these type of buildings a while ago. But there is an old cinema here, in Sadiqabad District Rahim Yar Khan, "Fanoos Cinema". It's structure resembles with this type of building. Will try to send you its pictures on Twitter.
Magnificent. My dad used to tell us about his great uncle being posted at Quetta around 1936 as a railway official. He said his children used to dress up in Pathani suit and kulley waali pagri and hence addressed as Pathan. The family often talked about the earthquake of '36 and how the family survived it.
However our family is Hindu but those gorey chittey pathan looking members were pride of our family too.
Wonderful. What a beautiful story.
The earthquake was in 1935
Beautiful episode. Please recommend books for readers
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Another beautiful episode as always. And you have actually summarized the story in this episode. This Building had alot of visitors in addition to Mr. Jinnah. Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto stayed with ZAB's mother for quite some in this building or the previous one, as he had married an outsider plus out of religion, so had to lay low till things cooled off and till Khan of Qalat's intervention worked in his favor.
And very few know what you said about Gwadar being taken over by the bedouins......hehehehe. Pity, the munificence of the Khan of Qalat could not be paid-back by the Omanese. Sir Aga Khan did a favor to Pakistan which cannot be repaid, just because he & Jinnah, both born & from the same village, Jhirk, in addition to being the leader of Ismailis, a faith shared by Quaid-e-Azam, whom now the textbooks claim to be born in Karachi. Sir Aga Khan-I house is still in Jhirk and maintained by the Aga Khan Foundation. And amazingly it had a railway station which few cities had then.
Khan of Qalat's house in Karachi-DHA Phase 5 (Gizri) is also in Art Deco Style, built in the Late 1950-early 1960's and bears quite a resemblance to his house in Qalat.
Thanks a lot. I have not seen the Khan's house in Karachi.
There were quite a few Art Deco buildings and homes in Delhi till the 1970s. Only a handful are still around. But a great Polish Art Deco artist Stefan Norblin came to India in the late 1930s and built some magnificent palaces in India, especially those of Jodhpur and Morvi. Mumbai too had many beautiful Art Deco buildings of which some still survive in very good condition.
Murshad, there were so many such bungalows in Amritsar till 90s. And then they fell pray to the mind boggling expansion and commercialisation. All demolished to make way for hideous mega marts and showrooms. Particularly on Mall Road and Lawrence Road.
In the eye of my mind I can still see these magnificent structures.
واہ چھینا جی ! آپ بھی باقیات کو محفوظ کر دیں۔
Wel done.Chhina Jee ! Yours goodself should also preserve remnant places as traveller writer on the foot steps of Mr Salman Rashid.
Is there any traces of " Safeer Hind Press" in Amritsar? Perhaphs in Hall Bazar , Belonging to a Padree / Christian peacher.
Yes, Many Maqbool road bungalows too had the same architecture.
@@preetikaul2 That’s true. Those too are all gone. There were some in Patiala too. I think a few may have survived there.
The same as us, dear friend. No difference.
@@preetikaul2 Thanks.
What about "Safeer e Hind press Amritsar" ? Perhaps in Hall Bazar Amritsar.
Would you be kind enough to trace out?
Regards.
We have some art deco like structures in Mumbai and Kolkata, in Mumbai, can be seen near the marine drive and Malabar hills , they are mostly privately owned buildings. It was a pleasant looking design methodology . New buildings are all just bland high rises with no attention paid to the architecture of the block or the city in general. (Not all, but most of them)
We too had many art deco buildings all across Pakistan. Even in villages where builders in the 1950s copied what they had seen in the cities. While those in the villages are still relatively safe, nearly all such buildings in the cities have been razed and replaced with characterless high rises.
Yes. I saw these type of buildings a while ago. But there is an old cinema here, in Sadiqabad District Rahim Yar Khan, "Fanoos Cinema". It's structure resembles with this type of building. Will try to send you its pictures on Twitter.
That'll be very kind of you. Cinemas were nearly always in art deco style.