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Today is the birthday of Commander Ernesto de la Serna. All over the world knows him as Che Guevara. Let us go back to history and revisit some of his photos while he was in India, 1959
1/ Bhanumathy while interviewing Che. with All India Radio
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Today is the birthday of Commander Ernesto de la Serna. All over the world knows him as Che Guevara. Let us go back to history and revisit some of his photos while he was in India, 1959
1/ Bhanumathy while interviewing Che. with All India Radio
2/ Prime Minister Mr Jawaharlal Nehru welcoming Che Guevara in his Teen Moorti residential office on July 1, 1959. Photo by Kundan Lal of Photo Division, Government of India.
3/ Che meets Defence Minister VK Krishna Menon, 3 July 1959.
4/ Che visits a school in the Pilana Block near Delhi. Photo courtesy: Photo Division, Government of India.
5/ At the Planning Commission of India.
6/ Commerce ministry officials presenting Che Indian tea, coffee and cigars.
7/ Checking out a metal detector at the laboratory of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
8/ An old villager in a Gandhi cap garlanding Che during Cuban team’s visit to a Community Project Area in Pilana Block near Delhi. Photo courtesy: Photo Division, Government of India.
9/ Che and his colleagues arrive at the Palam Airport on June 30, 1959. In turban is DS Khosla, Deputy Chief of Protocol, MEA, who received the group at the Airport. On extreme left (next to Che) is his bodyguard who was personally trained by Che himself. Photo courtesy: GOI
10/ Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in a happy mood after receiving a box of cigars as gift from the Cuban delegation on July 1, 1959. Photo courtesy: Photo Division, Government of India.
11/ Mr SK Dey, Minister for Community Development and Cooperation, receiving Che at his office in New Delhi on July 3, 1959. Photo courtesy: Photo Division, Government of India
12/ The Union Minister of Commerce Nityanand Kanoongo with the Cuban delegation led by Che in the Minister’s office on July 1, 1959. Photo courtesy: Photo Division, Government of India.
13/ Picture of Che taken in New Delhi by Photo Division photographer Kundan Lal.
14/ At the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi, sampling an improvised variety of wheat.
15/ AP Jain, Union Minister of Food and Agriculture, receiving Che when the latter called on him in New Delhi on July 4, 1959. Photo courtesy: Photo Division, Government of India.
16/ Che Guevara being shown a Lathe Manufacturing Machine at the Okhla Industrial Estate in New Delhi on July 1, 1959. Photo courtesy: Photo Division, Government of India.
17/KP Bhanumathy while interviewing Che. Photo by PN Sharma, provided by KP Bhanumathy
