Life

Did You Know?
Air India was the world's first all-jet carrier. So says this ad marking its 30th year of operations. Just picked it off an inside page of a Life magazine from the late 1960s or early 70s.

That's LIFE

A post - for no particular reason (I suppose that would be an appropriate excuse for all other posts on the blog too.) Just thought it would be interesting and something different, an issue of Life - a magazine that has showcased the works of many legendary photographers. Here is one published in 1968 with the Beatles, strikingly dressed, on the cover.
I can imagine our own superstar, Rajini, freaking out in any one of those suits. :) 

Another Life 

Of Dhrishtibommai and Butch Cassidy

Ever wondered what happened to all those LPs (record plates) that we used to cherish in the 1970s till the audio tapes took over -- well, in Chennai they are being turned into `drishtibommais,' the demon faces that ward off the evil eye. Here is a shop selling an assortment of drishtibommais. I picked one up and found that the unpainted side had that famous song `Rain drops keep fallin' on my head' from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That doll is now hanging outside my house. But it is now Chennai summer and it will be sometime before rain drops fall on it.

The image below is `the real Sundance Kid' as seen on the Life cover. (PS: I thought I had posted this image earlier, but while browsing through the site I could not find it, so decided to do it again.)