Matrimonial picture of a school girl
Image and Narrative contributed by Manorath Palan, Mumbai My Grandmother Rohini Palan studied at the Raja Ram Mohan High School at Girgaum. This picture was taken at a studio there. It is probably the same picture as the one I hear my Great-grandfather had shown of his daughter (my grandmother), to prospective grooms and fix her […]
The first ever Vegetable Oil mill of India
Image contributed by Vijaya Shenoy, Bengaluru The Hindustan Oil Mills – Staff Photograph. The mill was the first ever Vegetable Oil company of India.