The Cantonment Post Office of Mhow

 At the Cantonment Post Office of Mhow. Also the former Telegraph office. Nineteenth century
vintage. New roof :-) 

Clicked on my cycle ride this morning

#postcardfrommhow

Pansy Butterflies in Mhow.

 The six 'pansies' ... 

Pansy butterflies clicked in Mhow.

Top row: Grey Pansy, Blue Pansy. 

Middle Row: Peacock Pansy, Lemon Pansy

Bottom Row: Chocolate Pansy and Yellow Pansy. 

Photographs courtesy Arvind Yadav, Mhow. Aug 2020

#naturenotefrommhow #butterfliesofmhow

Beautiful Baobab Flower in B&W

 

This baobab flower looks so beautiful in black and white. 

No wonder the French poet, artist and film director Jean Cocteau had once said, "Black and white is colour and colour is black and white."

This flower is on one of my many tree friends (वृक्ष मित्र)- the one at the gate of the Defence Officers' Club aka DSOMI Mhow formerly the Club of Central India. 

Scientific name: Adansonia digitata

Common names: खोरासानी इमली, मांडव इमली, गोरख चिंच, monkey-bread tree, African calabash. 

#naturenotefrommhow #floraofmhow #treesofmhow #baobabsofmhow

The Beauty of an Indian Robin

The Indian Robin - small, common 

and beautiful. 

A Rainy Evening In Mhow

These two pics were clicked with my smartphone on Wednesday 27 June 2018.
It was  rainy evening and ideal for clicking.

The Main Street of Mhow Bazaar, clicked from Methi Provisions (formerly where the Bata shop used to be)

The Mall and Generals' Road going to the right. The triangular Ambedkar Garden (formerly the Prince of Wales Garden) in between. 

An interesting blog...

My Los Angeles based  friend Manisha, who belongs to Mhow and Indore, has just created a blog. It is called Manisha From Mhow  The first post is a very interesting one titled: Itwaari “Haat” – Los Angeles style! Sunday Farmers Market at Hollywood

While describing the Sunday Farmers Market in Los Angeles she shares her childhood memories of the "Shanivar ka haat" (the saturday market) in Mhow with its beautiful rural touch which is still held  not far from the Railway Station. A beautiful read. You can click here to get to it. Manisha has a flair for writing and am sure that in the coming days she will  make her readers happy through a series of excellent, well written posts. 

Memories of Denis Compton in Mhow and Indore

                                           
Denis Compton and other MCC players practice at the nets in Adelaide, 29 October 1954. Ashes Test Series 1954-1955. Sydney Morning Herald Picture by Harry Martin. Public domain. 

The great English cricketer Denis Compton was posted at the Officers' Training School, OTS, Mhow as a PT instructor during the World War II  years. As he was eligible to play in the Ranji Trophy for the Holkar team of Indore the Army would give him leave so he could play.

He was a member of the Holkar team which played against Bombay in the 1945 Ranji Trophy final. Denis had scored 20 and 249 not out in this match but the Holkar team lost this high scoring match. Denis still holds the record for the highest fourth innings score in the Ranji Trophy.
The Bombay team included a Parsi player named Rustom Sorabji Cooper who had scored 52 and 104 in that final - a match which Bombay won by 374 runs.

In 2012 Nick Compton, the grandson of Denis, had visited India as part of  the England team. He met Rustom Sorabji Cooper in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) who shared with him his interaction with Denis and how they had played with and against each other. Click here and read this nostalgia invoking article by Derek Abraham published in DNA Nov 1, 2012.

If I remember correctly Nick had played one match against the Cricket Club of India which had Abbas Ali as a player. Abbas Ali is the grandson of the late Syed Mushtaq Ali who played Test cricket for India from 1934 to 1952 and was known as the Errol Flynn of Indian cricket. Mushtaq Ali and Denis Compton played together in the Ranji Trophy as members of the Holkar team.