since it is Nehru's birthday, I was looking at his old photos. what an historic life he lived amidst empire, anticolonialism, communism, cold war, non-alignment, postcolonialism

for fun, I 'de-oldify'd some of his B&W photos with color.

github code -> https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify  https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1194783299224457220

With Gandhi

With Subhas Bose

With Rajaji, Sardar, photobombing dude, Nehru

With Dalai Lama and Zhou En Lai

With Che

With Nasser & Sukarno

marriage to Kamala Nehru

With JFK and a none-too-impressed LBJ

Subway riding w/ Indira

No time to horse around

When Nehru drove to Princeton to meet Einstein at his home

With Indira and V. K. Krishna Menon, London

1st meet of Governors, May 1949, New Delhi

L to R

Hormasji Mody (UP)
Maharaja of Bhavnagar (Madras)
Madhav Aney (Bihar)
M.M.Pakvasa (CP)
Chandulal Trivedi (E. Punjab)
Nehru
Rajaji
Sardar
Kailash Katju (W. Bengal)
Raja Maharaj Singh (Bombay)
Asaf Ali (Orissa)
Sri Prakasa (Assam)

With Tagore

[for reasons not clear to me, in the original the hands were nearly darkened out]

With Louis & Edwina Mountbatten

With Chaplin and Indira

With the Gods of Bollywood: Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, and Raj Kapoor

With Sheikh Abdullah

With M. A. Jinnah

The light has gone out of our lives...

— lines from an extempore speech delivered on Jan 30, 1948, upon the passing away of Mahatma Gandhi after an assassination. Captured here by Henri Cartier-Bresson

With Sardar en flow

a moment of calm, with his daughter. [end]