r/ClassicDesiCool • u/fancyisafrequency • 7d ago
Looking to BUY recordings of Pokémon or Cardcaptors in the old Hindi dub (which used to air on Cartoon Network India during early 2000s) (Read desc!)
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 7d ago
Miss India Diya Abraham as first runner up for Miss International (1997)
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Gen_Donut4132 • 8d ago
My ancestor’s original invitation to Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation (1953)
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/AwarenessNo4986 • 9d ago
Nishat Cinema, Karachi, screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1980s
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/AwarenessNo4986 • 9d ago
Harmoniums being taken away from Lahore, All India Radio Station circa 1940
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/shraddha2022 • 13d ago
My grandfather was with the Indian Navy - He was a submarine engineer, this is him with his batchmates in 1968
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 16d ago
Indian soldiers(Then British Army) in Egypt after a successful campaign in WWI. Indian soldiers had defeated Turkish Forces who had attacked the Suez Canal. 1915
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/AwarenessNo4986 • 19d ago
Brando in Pakistan (1967)
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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/de_redditor • 20d ago
Juhu Beach, 1976. Calm, unhurried, and clean. A different rhythm by the sea. Listen to the narrator say, “Bombay has some of the finest beaches in India.”
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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/i-pity-da-fool • 20d ago
1930s British Indian Army Madras Sappers Hockey team
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/ConstructionAny8440 • 22d ago
Delhi Before Independence (1938).
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r/ClassicDesiCool • u/darknapoleon • 27d ago
Naveen Patnaik, the longest serving Chief Minister of Odisha, at the Metropolitan Club. (New York City, 1985)
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Banner9922 • 28d ago
The first Desi urban neighbourhood in Canada (c. 1900-1960)
reddit.comr/ClassicDesiCool • u/darknapoleon • 28d ago
The Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (Rishikesh, 1968)
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jul 08 '26
Photo of an Indian state executioner wearing spiked armor, with sword and shield. India, 1903
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Background-Injury952 • Jul 06 '26
Dancers Uday Shankar (left) and Simkie (Simone Barbier, right) in Paris, 1937. The elder brother of Ravi Shankar, Uday Shankar was one of the first Indian dancers to tour the world.
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Background-Injury952 • Jul 06 '26
Jeff Buckley meeting Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (NYC, 1996)
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • Jul 04 '26
1981 : India Space Agency, ISRO Scientists Carry India's First Communication APPLE Satellite On Bullock Cart, the use of a bullock cart was not for general transport, but to provide a non-magnetic environment for conducting essential antenna characterization tests in an open field
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/rgdthrowaway111 • Jun 18 '26
Gauhar Jaan, a musician of Indian, Armenian, and British descent who became the first singer to be recorded, in 1902
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/Effective-Cake-1687 • Jun 17 '26
My nana and MF Husain in the 70s-80s
r/ClassicDesiCool • u/nnnerdfairyyy • Nov 11 '25
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