Category Archives: India

I have come to receive free/ads cards sometimes, and I am fine with free cards if they are interesting. For example, Boomerang cards published in The Netherlands are really aweseome. I received two postcards from the series Greetings from the Twentieth Century from laverne616. I wish I could get all from the series, or at least I could find them on a website or something (anyone can help me?). Okay so these cards are basically showing the most significant events happening throughout every decade of the 20th century. I’ll write down the description printed on the cards here.

1930-1940. 4th December 1931, Mahatma Ghandi outside 10 Downing Street, London while attending a conference of Indian constitutional reform. His long, non-violent struggle played a big part in paving the way for Indian Independence in 1947. I think Mahatma Ghandi is a very cool and down to earth person. Look he’s wearing his own piece of Indian clothings in a really important conference in London!

1970-1980. 11th December 1978, one of the many demonstrations for the return of religious leader Ayatollah Khomeiny to Iran. With the return of Khomeiny on the 1st February 1979 Iran becam a fundamentalist Islamic state after many months of chaos. I just had to get this card when it was offered in a tag because I have a thing about Iran ever since I visited the country in 1999. I don’t really understand myself the meaning of fundamentalist, and I’m not interested to comment political-wise, but in the sense of culture they’re original as they are really what they are, pure Persian lifestyle still strongly remains and hardly influenced by the outsiders or Westerners. Unlike Malaysians – we are always so proud to worship the West! :P