Himalyan peaks to the north of Badrinath.
Nilkantha ("Blue Thorn") is 21,643' in altitude. It is not visible from the foorhills as it is hidden behind the higher, more massive Chaukamba (23,418 ft.). Pictured from the base of its glacier on its north side.
Above Badrinath in route to the base of Nilkantha.
Trekking up to the base of Nilkantha.
Nilkantha.
A peak on northwest buttress ridge of Nilkantha.
The base of the Nilkantha glacier.
The Alaknanda River just below Badrinath, and a view of Nilkantha up the stream emanating from the glacier seen earlier. The top of the humpbacked ridge in the middle distance is the site where Hira Mani's chapattis were sent sailing down toward Badrinath.
The Alaknanda River below Badrinath, looking south toward the plains.
Badrinath and Nilkantha.
The Rawal or Chief Priest posing on the steps of India's most revered Hindu temple, Badrinath.
The view upstream at Badrinath.
This sadhu was too much on the talkative side, but photogenic nevertheless. About 15 miles below Badrinath alongside the walking road.
A class from Ann Pickett's Chopra (Pauri) school enjoys the winter sun. Messmore Inter College Hostel buildings below. Peaks visible are Chaukamba, under lowhanging branch and, to the right of the cloud, Kamet. Kedarnath Peak is hidden by a treein the middle distance. On the far left , barely visible, is Bandar Punch.
The Methodist Church in Chopra, Pauri Garhwal, where Doug & Ann Pickett lived for two years.
Chopra from the motor road above. The big house in the center was where the District Superintendent lived. The Pickett's house, just to the right of the big house, had a GI-roofed car shed, visible in front of the house. Messmore Inter College is above. Notice the motor road in the distance, winding down to Srinagar on the Alaknanda.
The tractor is kapoot but the camel is good!
That's the goat's tail, not a fifth leg!
The confluence of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rievers at Deoprayag where Ganga begins. A much-prized bathing place along the pilgrim route to Badrinath and Kedarnath temples...and a rather dangerous place to take a dip!
Looking upstream along the Alaknanda River. A snow peak in the distance.
The Ganges River at Buxar, Bihar (between Patna and Varanasi. January, 1965.
A cremation, perhaps in Varanasi.
A typical scene along the Grand Trunk Road made famous by the Kipling stories!
A boat bridge across the Ganges. This one is located in Buxar, Bihar. January 1965.
The boat bridge across the Ganges at Buxar, Bihar. January,1965.
Indeed!
This is cheaper than using gas to deliver the gas!
A typical scene on the Indian roads. 1965.
Not quite as typical a scene as the previous picture, but not an uncommon sight.
The lit towers and domes of the secretariat buildings, New Delhi, during the Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
New Delhi celebrates Republic Day each January 26.
Republic Day in New Delhi at dusk.
The "Beating of the Retreat", part of India's elegant Republic Day celebrations. As the sun set the band would play Abide With Me -- Gandhi-ji's favorite hymn.
An Adivasi stilt dancer in Bastar, MP. March 1965.
Adivasi stilt dancers in Bastar, MP. March 1965.
The band that plays for the Advani stilt dancers. Bustar, MP. 1965.
Enter the Advani dancers, stage rear.
When making this presentation to groups in the US, Dad would always comment: "The girl on the left is my daughter!"
Folk dancers from Assam. Each Republic Day a wonderful folk dance festival was/is held. This photo is from the 1960s.
Folk dancers help celebrate Republic Day.
Republic Day folk dancer.
A folk dancer from South India.
A camel (oont) brigade in the Republic Day parade in New Delhi. "Oonts brigade barre smartness ke sath chalrehi hain" (The camel brigade is moving with great smartness) were the words of the radio announcer standing in his booth behind us.
Prime Minister Nehru enters the folk dance arena quietly and without fan-fare.
Republic Day Parade.
This regally adorned elephant actually lived a few miles down the road from our home in Ghaziabad. We called him the "Dasna Elephant" after the town of Dasna.
The chapel at Ingraham Institute in Ghaziabad was built in the late '50s.
Bishop and Mrs. Mangal Singh attend a function.
A village band, probably taken in 1965.
Miss "Bill" Sketchly a Methodist missionary in Bengal.
A village scene in the foothills.
Tiger, tiger...
A community well.
A village scene near Ghaziabad.
Ingraham Institute's doctor, Dr. Tewari, lectured the village children on cleanliness. If they washed and put on clean clothes they could come the next week and get a glass of milk to drink. These are the clean children who got their milk.
...these are the children who forgot to wash and dress in clean clothes!
A village school bus!
A roadside dentist.
Dental hygiene program.
Village women and children.
A relatively well-off village woman.
A wonderful face.
Village women.
The mission jeep going out to the villages.
The ubiquitous ox cart.
Clay is used in a lot of village construction.
A Church in South India. This was the angle of the cross when carried by Christ.
Lal Bagh Church in Lucknow.
The Lucknow Publishing House published Christian material for the Indian market.
Dolly Chitamber Jordan at the organ in Lucknow.
The chapel at Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow.
The chapel on the Isabella Thoburn campus, Lucknow.
The verandah outside the huge assembly hall on the Isabella Thoburn campus.
The main entrance of Isabella Thoburn, also known locally as IT and Chand Bagh.
Lucknow Christian College.
Perhaps a shot in the Clara Swain Hospital in Bareilly.
Clara Swain Hospital in Bareilly.
Dr, Charles Perrill in his heyday at the Clara Swain Hospital. He died last year (2007) at Penney Farms.
Another shot in the Clara Swain Hospital, Bareilly.
Clara Swain Hospital's medical trailer.
Butlers Commemoration, in Bareilly.
"Juggi wallahs" in Delhi, mostly laborers with no access to housing who are technically squatters.
The Jama Masjid, South Asia's largest mosque. Wonderful kabobs and roti in the alleyways surrounding the mosque!
Raajendra Prasad, Ike, Jawarlal Nehru at an airport welcoming ceremony.
President Rajendra Prasad, Dwight Eisenhower, Jawaharlal Nehru. New Delhi 1957 (I think!). This picture is severely cropped.
President Eisenhour is royally received in New Delhi in, perhaps, 1956. India's first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, is with Ike in the carriage. Note horse back honor guardsmen
India Gate during Ike's visit, New Delhi.
Even "juggis" (mud huts) were decorated for Eisenhower's 1956 visit to India.
The American embassy (Taj Amerikan) shortly after it was opened in the late 1950s. By 1995 it was pretty delapitated with leaky roofs and poor maintenance due to budget cuts.
The American embassy in New Delhi shortly after it was opened in the late 1950s. Edward Durrell Stone was the architect; he also designed the Kennedy Center and the similarities are obvious (right down to the leaky roofs in both locations!).
Mahatma Gandhi's samedi, known as Raj Ghat, in New Delhi.
The statue is of Sardar Vallahbhai Patel, the "Iron Man," India's first Home Minister, who is credited with India's success in amalgamating all of the so-called Princely States into the Indian Union.
Rajendra Prashad -- the first President of India.
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Hazratganj, Lucknow. The tower in the background is the General Post Office. (Thanks to Puneet Sharma for identifying this location.)
Statue of Queen Victoria, minus her nose, which was hacked off by a zealot in the euphoria if Independence.
A better preserved statue of Queen Victoria in Bangalore, March 1965
Street kids in Bombay, dancing for paisa.
Village women washing their clothes -- buttons do not survive this treatment!
Dobhi Ghat, the Indian equvalent of a laundramat (except you pay to have someone do the wash for you), in Bombay.
Homeless in Bombay.
A tea stall set up under a New Delhi "flyover."
President Kennedy was highly regarded in India and his picture hung in millions of little stalls and huts like this.
Aurangabad, the tomb of the Mughul Emporer Aurangzeb, known among his Hindu subjects by the sobrique "Aurangzeb The Biggot," a title often used in conjunction with a spit!
A Rotarian in New Delhi
The Gateway to India" -- Bombay
A small fishing boat, Bombay.
This building needs no introduction!
