Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Indian Pop Art ....and then some..........

Gotta Louuuve Indian Calendar Art ( nothing makes me as nostalgic as the familiar drawings from waay back that I don’t get to see anymore!!! )…Googled Indian Calendar Art and Indian Pop Culture to find the following :









From here and here and here.

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Has anybody else used those educational paper ‘charts’?!?! (I always thought of charts as something involving thick paper ) the ones made of flimsy paper and we’d cut out relevant pictures and paste in our notebooks as kids…pretty neat they were….








They usually were of national leaders or national monuments or national scientists, sometimes domestic animals , national flower(s), types of houses ..and I’m racking my brain to think of the various pictures I had pasted on school books over the years.. wonder if they still make them...
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Let’s stick with nostalgia for a bit …here are some print ads I remember from my Amar Chitra Katha’s , Tinkles, Chandamama’s, Champaks , the Indian Disney comics, and a couple of Mandrake comics I own ….










The above are from the following AWESOME sites this one (Great online desi vintage ad archive) and this one ( Really neat site for people who grew up in 1980’s India ;but some of the content isn’t exactly kid friendly!!!)
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Anyhooo back to the present…………….. aren’t the following pictures really Cute!!! Awwww................




Check out the website here .

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

cool!

Soumyadip said...

Loved your collection.

Natasha Samani said...

@R :Thanks :)

@ Soumyadip:I should really thank you for putting together a rather comprehensive collection af ads and ad collection tips :) ...Thank you for visiting.. Again Really Cool Blog...

Anonymous said...

Good one......it was soooo nostalgic....i used to love those ads....especially the fevigum ones :) ....Thanks for bringing back a whole load of happy memories.........

Rups

Mrinal said...

Lovely collection!

Natasha Samani said...

@ Rups & Mrinal : Thanks :)

Vivekananda Ganihar said...

I have seen some of these charts and old Indian mags in antique shops in Calif. My biggest shock was when I walked into a antique shop in Pasadena and found a bound collection of Chandamama and Chacha Choudary!!! Good post, makes me more home sick.

Natasha Samani said...

@ Vivek - you're kidding me !! Gosh should visit those California antique shops !! :)

Anonymous said...

nostalgic indeed....the monkey and two cats story is still fresh in my mind...

Unknown said...

Loved this! Now I am hooked on to your blog :)