Holi 2012... A day of colours...

Mhow, Dist Indore, Madhya Pradesh,

Thursday March 8 2012 - the day of playing with colours (Dhulendi)

A Hundred and One years for the Indian Army's Corps of Signals

101 years of the Corps of Signals, Indian Army

Celebrations at Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE) Mhow

Pagal Gymkhana held on Sunday 12 Feb 2012.

A young Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi at a fancy dress competition to celebrate 101 years of the Corps of Signals at MCTE Mhow today Sunday Feb 12... खूब लड़ी मर्दानी वह तो झाँसी वाली रानी थी

 

                                             "Catch me if you can..." Kids enjoying themselves during the 'Pagal Gymkhana' 

Quite a mouthful... Children's favourite - Jalebi Race in progress...

"Calmly..." Thread and needle race 

"No flying today" said the pilots of the micro light aircraft of the Army Aero Nodal Centre who were supposed to perform a fly past. I was told that the wind speed was around 20 knots - double the 10 knots that is the upper limit.

                                            "He Ram!" A boy dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi for  the fancy dress competition 

 

 

Rupak Kulkarni clicked during a SPICMACAY concert....

Rupak Kulkarni plays the flute accompanied by Aditya Kamalapur on the tabla - SPICMACAY concert at KC Bansal Technical Academy, Umaria, Mhow, Indore

  

MP Remount &Veterinary Squadron NCC of Mhow excels at Republic Day Camp

NCC R&V Squadron from Mhow adjudged best riding team at Republic Day Camp

              



MP Remount &Veterinary Squadron NCC of MHOW performed excellently at the Republic Day Celebrations Equestrian Events 2012 at New Delhi, with the unit emerging as top most medal winner and first amongst all Remount & Veterinary Squadrons of the country. The squadron won a total of 3 best rider trophies apart from 5 Gold, 5 Silver, 1 Bronze and 2 highly commended medals in various equestrian competitions conducted at the event. A contingent of one Officer, one JCO, 2 Instructors, 3 boy cadets of Senior Division, 2 Girl cadets of Senior wing and 5 horses of this unit participated in these events.

                 


Lt Col Sanjay Rawat, the squadron commander, said that the unit had a rigorous training and coaching camp at its newly constructed training grounds for over 2 months, under the guidance of Risaldar SS Singh, Dafedar Omveer Singh and ex cadet Yashowardhan Dwivedi. Senior Under Officer Sunali Raina of this unit was adjudged Best Rider (Girls), whereas Md Shah Rukh was honored with Best Rider (Boys). Other medal winners from the squadron include Cadets Govind Bali and Tejaswinee Potekar. The events conducted were show jumping, dressage and hacks. The winning horses include Lucky, Mahabali and Tarzan. 
  




On 15 Jan 2012, Lt Gen PS Bhalla, PVSM, Director General NCC, witnessed the horse show at RDC Grounds New Delhi. SUO Md Shah Rukh won the show jumping competition here and was awarded the ‘Best Rider NCC Trophy’. Brig VK Adappa, SM, Dy Director General NCC (MP&CG) and Col VK Saini Commander, NCC Indore Group, have congratulated the Mhow based squadron for their sterling performance.
 

 Pictures Courtesy: 2 MP R&V Squadron NCC Unit.

RESULTS:

(1) Senior Under Officer (SUO) Sunali Raina of Senior Wing, Veterans
  (i)  Gold Medal in Show Jumping Normal  on Lucky
 (ii)  Gold Medal in Dressage on Mahabali
(iii) Silver Medal in Show Jumping Top Score on Mahabali
(iv) Highly Commended (4th Position) in Show Jumping Normal on Mahabali
(v) Best Rider Trophy, Girls

(2)  Senior Under Officer (SUO) Md Shah Rukh of Senior Wing, Veterans
 (i) Gold Medal in Dressage on Shaktiman
 (ii) Gold Medal in Hacks on Shaktiman
(iii) Silver Medal in  Show Jumping Top Score on Lucky
(iv) Bronze Medal in Show Jumping Normal on Lucky
(v) Runner Up in Best Rider Trophy, Boys
(vi) Best Rider Trophy, Director General NCC Horse Show

(3) Cadet Govind Bali, Senior Division, Novice

(i) Gold Medal in Hacks on Tarzan
(ii) Silver Medal in Show Jumping Top Score on Lucky
(iii) Silver Medal in Show Jumping Normal on Lucky
(iv) Highly Commended (4th position) in Dressage on Tarzan.

(4) Cadet Tejaswinee Potekar, Senior Division, Novice
(i) Silver Medal in Show Jumping Top Score on Lucky.



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A Two Day Army Exhibtion (Fauji Mela) in Mhow

Fauji Mela in Mhow.

Jan 12-13 2012.

To celebrate National Youth Day (the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda).

The station commander Brigadier Mukesh Kumar was requested by Mhow MLA and State Industries Minister Shri Kailash Vijayvargiya to extend the mela by one day so that people from Indore could also see it. That is the reason why the exhibition of military hardware was open on Jan 13 too...

An infantryman atop a T-72 Battle Tank .

पैदल सिपाही (रायफलमैन) टैंक पर ....

           The infantryman, the infant and the artillery..... The 105/37 Indian Field Gun... एक फौजी अपने पुत्र के साथ....

                                         

     A visitor is curious about the ATGM (Anti Tank Guided Missile) Launcher टैंक को नष्ट करने वाले ATGM  के बारे में जानकारी लेते हुए....

Small arms and other Infantry weapons on display...

पैदल सिपाहियों के हथियार की प्रदर्शनी

 

                                            40 mm Multi Shot Grenade Launcher
                                 ४० एम् एम् मल्टी शाट ग्रिनेड लौन्चर

84 mm Rocket Launcher RCL Mark III

८४ एम् एम् राकेट लौन्चर आर सी एल मार्क III

                                               

30 mm AGL-17, Automatic Grenade Launcher.

३० एम् एम् ऐ जी एल - १७ आटोमेटिक ग्रिनेड लौन्चर

 

7.62 mm Machine Gun

७.६२ एम् एम् मशीन गन  

                                       
Click here to see my photo essay on the same event in the English daily DNA (Indore Edition) (www.dnaindia.com)

Beirchha Road...

Tamarind Trees on Beirchha Road... A sight I love seeing on my walk every morning...

Firepower Demonstration At The Army War College, Mhow - I

November 23, 2011.

The Indian Army's  Army War College at Mhow conducted a firepower demonstration. The press was also invited to witness this event.

That is how I attended this awesome display of firepower. This was primarily a demonstration conducted for the Junior Command (JC) course. The firepower demonstration showed the use of T-72 tanks of the Armoured Corps, Infantry Combat Vehicles BMP-II of the Mechanised Infantry and 105 mm Indian Field Gun of the Artillery. Here is a random sprinkling of pics clicked that day. There will be more in another blog post....

Above and Below: A sea of olive green and battle fatigues. Student officers witnessing the maneuvers.

A journalist breaks the monotony in the pic below.

             Above: Student officers and media personnel enjoy a tank ride after the event.

                    Above: An infantryman with his firepower.....

                                                    Above: A T-72 tank on the move...

           Above: Some of the media personnel having a good time with the guns on display...

The Lambretta... Remembering Old Times...

Clicked in Malwa Market, Mhow....

Do read some of the comments on Facebook where I uploaded this pic:

Nitish Joshi: my fathers's favorite......... 

Dev Kumar Vasudevan: My dad had two Lambrettas - the first was from 1968 to 1973 (Delhi, Mhow and Alwar) and the second one from 1973 to 1995 (Alwar, Shillong and Mhow)... He bought a Bajaj in 1995 because Lambrettas were not being produced... He couldn't use it for long as he lost his eyesight due to diabetic complications...

Mustafa Jamali: Looks in a very good condition, must be taken care of very well.

Dev Kumar Vasudevan: Yes Mustafa, there are a handful of these scooters in Mhow now. And all of them are well looked after. One is in the possession of the Sattar Tailor family.

Panchali Sengupta: oh, my Dad had one in green :0

Arun S Jayakaran: My Dad had one for years and as a kid I remember the numerous rides on it.

Sanjay Shukla Well kept machine.

Mustafa Jamali: Oh yes, they have been using one eversince I remember, a light blue coloured version, if they haven't modified it .

Navneet Kumar Yadav Very handyyy vehicle it reminds me of Dr Srivastava uncle who had been very kind all those years where he use to pick up his 2 sons after school from Rajeshwar vidhyalaya and use to take along 6 of us excluding him on his Lambretta ... Big hearted man big a big scooter ....

Dev Kumar Vasudevan: It was our family car. My father would drive, my mother would be on the pillion seat, youngest brother Ashok would stand in front and I and my younger brother Mahesh would sit on the metal frame above the spare wheel. This continues till I was ten or eleven. After that we stopped going five together. This particular scooter does not have the metal frame.

Deepa Vanjani:   Took me back to the old old days of simplicity...i recalled my fathers 


scooter called Fantabulous...


Dev Kumar Vasudevan: Yes Deepa I remember you telling me the story of your Dad's 


Fantabulous. Come to think of it - Lambretta, Vespa (Bajaj), Fantabulous, Vijay Super. There


 were hardly four or five models of scooters in the market.