Admirer of Paul Raj Paintings

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Paul was born in Kodaikanal on 22 September 1914 and died on 2 October 1979. G D Arulraj was born in 1925 and died in June 1972 while visiting India. Arul worked at Laguna Beach in the 60's and 1970's. G D Thyagaraj might have been born in 1922 and I am told that he probably died sometime before 1981. He moved to northern India as a young man. I lived in India as a child and spent a lot of time in Calcutta. My mother purchased several paintings directly from Paul Raj while living in Madras and this got me interested in his works. I then discovered he had two brothers Arul Raj and Thyaga Raj who were both fantastic artists. I could not find much information on the internet so decided to set up my own blog. Subsequently a Facebook tribute site has also been created to the memory of the three brothers. Contact me at: rajbrothers@hotmail.co.uk

Sunday, 28 August 2011

Ballygunge Calcutta

Scanned a couple of photos of the house where I lived as a child in Calcutta between 1957 to 1975.  Probably in the late 1960s or early 1970s a 20 storey block of apartments was built across the road from our house and it was called Tivoli Court.  One of the photos taken from our upstairs verandah shows the corner of the flats and our front gate.  The little house near the gate is where the guards or 'Derwans' lived.
The second photo is taken from the gate looking back at the house, I lived in the upper right corner and the offices for the Hooghly Ink Company were the entire ground floor.
The two colour photos were probably taken in the 1970s and the next photo in black and white was probably taken in the 1960s.


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4 comments:

  1. Ramesh Jhawar29 August 2011 at 18:11

    WOW...You lived in a sprawling house!

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  2. Gold Finch29 August 2011 at 20:15

    Hi Ramesh. Only the top right hand quarter, another family lived in the top left hand quarter and all of downstairs were offices.

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  3. Accidental Fame Junkie22 September 2011 at 06:48

    With which camera were these pictures taken?

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  4. Gold Finch27 September 2011 at 19:13

    Photos were taken with a small Kodak Instamatic 25 camera, the film was in a small self contained cartridge.

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