Some of the old Air India posters were incredibly weird. Tweet added by Edward Anderson @edanderson101

Edward Anderson

@edanderson101

7 years

Some of the old Air India posters were incredibly weird.

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Rahul Verma

@_storywallah

7 years

@edanderson101 @smukherjee_hist !!!! 'weird' is putting it politely to say the least.

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Edward Anderson

@edanderson101

7 years

@_storywallah @smukherjee_hist Yes! These are just a few of the more eccentric ones. By today's standards, many are very offensive indeed!

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Aroop Chaudhari

@bombayblue

7 years

@hongo_jr Amen!

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Neha Wasnik

@Iamnehawasnik

7 years

@edanderson101 Today they will.attract social media outrage for cultural appropriation

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Edward Anderson

@edanderson101

7 years

@surekhapillai @kishiarora Various places online. @scroll_in did a piece on some of them recently:

10 classic Air India posters showing the Maharajah in the world's most famous cities

A lifeguard in Sydney, a can-can dancer is Paris – the national airline's mascot is at home everywhere in the world.

scroll.in

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IceCreamMan

@Ktens

7 years

@edanderson101 imagine the outrage they'd cause in today's day and age.

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Shweta Taneja

@shwetawrites

7 years

@edanderson101 I like them. The way the world was when politically correct wasn't invented!

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Trupti_g♥️

@Ttruptii

7 years

@edanderson101 @AarSee nairobi one is too funny 😂😂

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విషమసిద్ధి(తెలుగువాఁడు)

@tuxnani

7 years

@edanderson101 @Sree926 And they got best air poster too! LOL

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François-Xavier Durandy

@fxdurandy

7 years

@edanderson101 😱 The AI maharajah swapping his pagdi for a beret and peddling 🔞 pictures in a seedy corner with no @LaTourEiffel in sight… 😳

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rohit sharma

@funny_rohit

7 years

@edanderson101 @RoflGandhi_ i had them as a booklet since my father worked for air india . Lost them unfortunately

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{ HiteshShetty }

@IndieKidHit

7 years

@edanderson101 I have some as dad used to work there. It used to be liberal, quirky and hip. Unthinkable now of such art work.

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Travel With Vish 🇮🇳

@ravishphotoart

7 years

@edanderson101 @theangrysaint hahahahahaha that's so hilarious

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Mona Ambegaonkar

@MonaAmbegaonkar

7 years

@edanderson101 actually I think they were superb. And honest. That's the India mentality in all its glory and cheapness. @Kewrious

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shmoo

@NoddyAkhtar

7 years

@edanderson101 @floweraldehyde weird but still better.

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🍉tapioca full of moxie

@TapiocaChip

7 years

@edanderson101 @mostly_cynical those calf muscles tho

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Veronica Ω

@VeronicaSixteen

7 years

@edanderson101 @GwennDani it just shows how much more accepting and matured we were. Aajkal toh toofaan ayega, thnks to the easily Offended

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Snee

@sneha2menon

7 years

@Laza_ruse The third and fouth one, though O.o

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Kapil Singh Pawar 🇮🇳

@kapilspawar

7 years

@edanderson101 this is before Air India's nationalisation. JRD Tata's favourite jewel in the Tata empire.

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