Historical pictures displayed at photo Exhibition in Gorkhapatra Corporation

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, May 8: The historical pictures from 1973 to 2003 are being displayed in the photo exhibition of Gorkhapatra Corporation. This exhibition was started on May 7 marking the 123rd anniversary of the publication of Gorkhapatra publication and the 61st anniversary of the Gorkhapatra Corporation.

The historical pictures showing the accident of  Dasarath Rangasala Stadium to blockade imposed by India, are being put on display in the exhibition at Gorkhapatra Corporation, Dharmapath, Kathmandu.

Ram Prasad Humagain, Chief of the Department of Photography said that the photo exhibition will run for 15 days. The photo exhibition was started in the National Assembly Hall on Sunday.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Rekha Sharma, Minister for Communication and Information Technology, along with other dignitaries graced the event on Sunday. The photo exhibition, which was displaced on National Assembly Hall on Sunday is shifted to the premise of the Corporation on Monday, was observed by writer Dr Benju Sharma today.

Chief Humagain said that the photo exhibition came to life with the efforts of Sagar Basnet, Sujan Gurung, Bikash Dware, Kabin Adhikari, Keshab Khanal, Kabita Thapa, and Tanka Bahadur Dani, staff under the department of photography.

He said, “The collective effort made it possible to display the old history on the auspicious occasion of the 123rd anniversary of the Gorkhapatra publication.” “Our efforts paid off, PM ‘Prachanda’, Minister Sharma, the general audience, and guests watched yesterday’s photo exhibition with great interest.”

The exhibition is being displaced in the new building of the corporation under the direction of Bishnu Prasad Subedi, Executive Chairman, and Lal Bahadur Airi, General Manager, of the Corporation.

The photographs from 1973 to 2003 that are placed for the exhibition were taken by photographers Gopal Chitrakar, Bindu Raj Singh Suwal, Rameshwar Kayastha, Bhim Gurung, Bharat Deurali, Ramesh K.C., Shekhar Chaulagain, Rajendra Chitrakar, Natikaji Maharjan.

The dilapidated wooden bridge connecting Anamnagar to Thapa Gaun, New Baneshwor, before building the concrete bridge with the help of the government of Japan, a crowd gathered around Gorkhapatra Corporation to see the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) result of 1998 after its publication on the newspaper, are displaced in the photo exhibition.

Likewise, photographs of a building destroyed by the earthquake in Dharan in 1988, a hippie walking in the streets of the capital in 1976, and voting in the elections held on May 1991 are kept.

Likewise, participants in the tea party held at the residence of Nepali Congress leader Ganeshman Singh, on the occasion of Dashain 1990, photos copied from television of the voting in the general election of 1958 are included.

The rally led by the then Jana Morcha leader Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai, Pampha Bhusal, Pari Thapa in New Road on August 1994, former President Bidya Devi Bhandari giving an interview in her own residence to Sitaram Agrahari, former editor as well as general manager of Gorkhapatra, and Prakash Rimal of The Rising Nepal, after the demise of her husband and the communist leader Madan Bhandari in the Dasdhunga accident in Chitwan in 1993 is displaced in the exhibition.

 Likewise, former Prime Minister and leader Man Mohan Adhikari addressing the public meeting in the open forum by the six leftist constituents on August 1994, pictures of youths selected for the National Development Program in the year 1976 are kept.

Likewise, leading a buffalo to its destination on the Koteshwar Sallaghari road section, a passenger watching a truck that had an accident in the Bhadrakali area.

 There are pictures of a farmer carrying vegetables in the Hanumandhoka area around 1976, local fishing in the Bishnumati river around 1990, the damage caused by the bomb blast at the Annapurna Hotel in the capital under the leadership of Ram Raja Prasad Singh in 1985 against the then system.

It also includes the picture of the then PM Marich Man Singh monitoring the bombing of the then Rashtriya Panchayat Bhawan at Singha Durbar in 1985.

The then King Birendra sightseeing the Taumadi area of Bhaktpur to Elizabeth II, then Queen of England, who was on a Nepal visit in 1985, damaged caused by flood on nearby areas of Butwal in 1981.

Photographs of former Chinese Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping being welcomed at Tribhuvan International Airport in 1977.

The then mayor of the city PL Singh and Deputy Mayor Navindra Raj Joshi (right) bid farewell to the President of China who visited Nepal in 1997 at the Rastriya Sabha Griha after receiving citizen’s greetings. The bereaved relatives who lost their loved ones in a sudden hailstorm and wind on  Dasharath Rangasala on March 12, 1988.

A total of 93 people had lost their lives in the hailstorm and the Minister of Sports, Keshav Bahadur Bista had resigned from his post on humanity grounds.

Photos of the former Crown Prince Dipendra leaving for the long distance after Bratabandha, leaders participating in the program organized by the Federation of Commerce and Industry in honor of the members of the cabinet formed under the leadership of Sher Bahadur Deuba in 1996 are worth seeing.

The picture of Daharaha was clicked in 1977, the then PM Marich Man Singh visited the earthquake victims of Dharan in 1989, a house destroyed by the earthquake of 1989 in Dharan, feeding birds in Phewa Lake in 1977. 

Voting in the local elections in 1983, the scene of the first South Asian Association for Regional Corporation (SAARC) summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and photos of locals during the Gorkhapatra and the Rising Nepal newspaper in 1986.

Former PM Girija Prasad Koirala attended the seventh anniversary of the Gorkhapatra, and the then PM Krishna Prasad Bhattarai administered the oath to office and secrecy to the other members of the Council of Ministers as PM in 1990 and the council of ministers of the interim government formed after the people’s movement on 1990 being sworn in.