February 21, 2014
I spent the afternoon at Yaseen’s office where he showed me bits from his family history, letters belonging to three generations of boatmen. We had Kehwa, we ate buttered Telwurs and we leafed through fading tattering pages of history.
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| 1985 |
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| 1928 |
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| 1920 At that time Miss O’Connor ran a successful housing lodging setup for British visitors. |
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| 1920 |
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| Letters came C/o Habib Joo, more famous name in the tourism trade of the time |
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| A lot of visitors were British soldiers posted near Kashmir |
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| Taj Mahal Palace Hotel letter head, 1920 |
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| Wadia Movietone letter head, for a film from 1962. |
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| 1923 |
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| Namesake of a famous Parsi 1961 |
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| 1941 Unlike other letters directed at, this one is a letter by a boatman to another. It informs about the death of a young girl. |
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