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.

The General, the Colonel and the Babbler

The Large Grey Babbler  is a bird which is present in large numbers in Mhow and other parts of Indore district. The taxonomic name of this common bird is Turdoides malcolmi. It was named by by Colonel W H Sykes (1790 - 1872)  in appreciation of support that he received from Major-General Sir John Malcolm  (1769–1833).

Colonel William Henry Sykes was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist. He served in the army of the Bombay Presidency from 1804 to 1837. Major  General Sir John Malcolm is the man who founded Mhow cantonment in 1818 as a result of the Treaty of Mandsaur which was signed after the Holkars of Indore were defeated by the East India Co. at the Battle of Mahidpur (one of the decisive battles of the Third Anglo-Maratha war).

A retired  Army officer to whom I sent this tale  to had this to say, "Honouring a General by naming a babbler after him! I wonder whether the Colonel was paying the General a back handed compliment !"  

Chronicle of Christ Church Mhow By Deepa Vanjani (Indore Plus, Times of India, 24 April 2011)

An Easter gift.

Deepa Vanjani's article "Chronicle of Christ Church" featuring Christ Church Mhow published in Indore Plus (supplement to The Times of India) on 24 April 2011 - Easter Sunday.
"Photo courtesy and inputs from Dev Kumar Vasudevan"

Christ Church Mhow Is Illuminated for Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Christ Church Mhow, The Mall, Mhow Cantt, District Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Image clicked on Monday, 18 April 2011

Christ Church Mhow gets ready for Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

Stamp Released to Celebrate 100 years of the Corps of Signals, Indian Army

The Corps of Signals of the Indian Army turns 100 on Feb 15 2011. The celebrations have been on since quite some time now. And since Mhow houses the Military College of Telecommunications Engineering (MCTE) - the alma mater of the Signals it has also been the venue for many of these celebrations.

I am happy that I could come to know about the release of this stamp and first day cover issued to celebrate 100 years of the Corps. I am also happy that I could discover a blog dedicated to the stamps of India. Please click here to see Indian Stamps For You Virtually -  the source of these images.

Republic Day Parade 26 Jan 2011 गणतंत्र दिवस परेड २०११

           

 Shankar Laxman Stadium (Garrison Ground), Mhow, 26 Jan 2011
                    शंकर लक्ष्मण स्टेडियम (गेरिसन ग्राउंड)   महू २६ जनवरी २०११

The atmosphere at the stadium is charged. The 61st Republic Day was being celebrated in this small town where Dr B R Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution, was born in an Army family in the late 19th century. Generations in Mhow have looked forward to this day and have fond memories of the R Day parade in Garrison Ground.

एक अलग ही माहौल, एक अलग ही जोश. और होना भी है क्योंकि दिन है ख़ास.

St Mary's Convent Mhow led the march. They were the winners in the Senior Girls' section for best marching contingent.

Boys of Colonel's Academy Mhow.

 Boys of Unique Higher Secondary School. The winners of the trophy for best senior boys marching contingent.
यूनिक हाईर सेकंड्री स्कूल के विध्यार्थी | वरिष्ठ (सीनियर) लड़कों की श्रेणी में इस दल को पहला पुरस्कार मिला


 

Young Scouts all smartly turned out...

     And the girl guides also put up an impressive performance...

                               NCC Air Wing Cadets.

                                NCC Senior Girl Cadets.

                           

Pipes and Drums - Rajput Regiment. राजपूत रेजिमेंट का पाइप्स एंड ड्रम्स बैंड

                         The Brass Band of Rajeshwar Vidyalaya. राजेश्वर विध्यालय का ब्रास बैंड

 Shri Navin Tatge of the State Bank of India who, along with Mrs Pushpa Malviya of Army School Mhow has been the announcer in the parade for the past many years
 स्टेट बैंक ऑफ़ इंडिया के श्री नवीन टात्गे जो पिछले कई वर्षों से आर्मी स्कूल के  श्रीमती पुष्पा मालवीय  के साथ इस कार्यक्रम का संचालन कर रहे हैं |

 An impressive horse show by the Equestrian Squadron of the NCC. This squadron is linked to the Remount and Veterinary Corps of the Indian Army and is part of the Veterinary College, Mhow.
                                        घुड़सवारी का बहुत अच्छा प्रदर्शन हुआ

                          

                                   Shifa Ansari sings "Vande Mataram" शिफा अंसारी "वन्दे मातरम" गाते हुए

                              Students of various schools participate in mass PT.

                              

 Students of JGG Higher Secondary School enact a scene from the uprising of 1857 (The First War of Independence for Indians and the Sepoy Mutiny for the British)

                              

                              

                                 When youngsters captured a tank....
                                  नौजवानों का  टैंक  पर  कब्ज़ा !!! :-)