Mhow bazaar, Sunday 29 March 2020. During the first week of the first covid lockdown.
"Truly deserted. The strangest Sunday of my life. The Kotwali Chowk of Mhow clicked this afternoon. You can see the Coronation Fountain which was built to commemorate George V coming to power in 1911. Now it has a Gandhi statue under the dome."
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Little egret: Egretta garzetta अंधा बगला
Teak: Tectonia grandis
Courtesy veteran Col DCV Shah
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Scientific name of the African Baobab: Adansonia digitata.
खोरासानी इमली, मांडव इमली, गोरख चिंच
Khorasani imli, Mandav imli, Gorakh chinch
Monkey-bread tree, African calabash, Judas' Bag, Cream of tartar.
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The small bridge at the end of General's Road... Clicked at 10:14 pm on Saturday night. (22 Nov 2025)
Stopped the scooter, switched off the headlight and clicked a few times.
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The Indian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) Rufous morph, Common names in Hindi/ Hindustani: सुल्तान बुलबुल, दूधराज, अर्जुनक, रज्जुवाल (रक्तवर्णी)
A summer migrant from below the Vindhyas. The state bird of Madhya Pradesh. They breed and return to the southern part of the subcontinent with their young at the onset of winter.
A collage made from recent photographs so beautifully clicked in Gurugram, Haryana by the passionate birder Arvind Yadav.
Females are always rufous and they lack the bright blue head and long tape like tails which males have. Males are born rufous but some change to a white morph in the sub adult stage.
Seen all over Madhya Pradesh
Hot cross buns made by Gulab bakery for Good Friday. An annual ritual.... The Scottish Kirk can be seen in the background.
Gulab and Jeevan Bakeries function from the same Raj era barracks and both make these hot cross buns for Good Friday.
This is an area which reeks of the Raj era. The Sacred Heart Church, the Scottish Kirk and its graveyard, the Wesleyan church, the St Thomas seminary, St. Mary's Convent, Rajeshwar Vidyalaya, Craven Hotel and not far are the Protestant and Catholic graveyards and the Railway colony where the Anglo Indians lived...
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Dr B R Ambedkar (14 Apr 1891- 6 Dec 1956) jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India. It was his 134th birth anniversary yesterday 14 April 1891.
• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
• Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer, who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.
• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
• Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering otherwise both will wither and die.
•I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Public domain photograph of Dr Ambedkar.
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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙮𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙊𝙛 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡'𝙨 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙝𝙤𝙬.
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Sunset at Nakheri dam, sunday 08-Dec-24
Nakheri river which starts from the hill of Janapao and is dammed at village Badgonda of Mhow. I had first visited this site 45 years ago in the winter of 1979 on a long walk till Mehendikund, this dam was being built then. How time flies!!!
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Ficus benghalensis, बरगद, बड़
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On 26 November 1949, the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution, which came into effect on January 26, 1950, marking India’s transition to a democratic republic.
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Public domain photograph of Dr B R Ambedkar, Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee and independent India's first minister for law and justice.
Dr Ambedkar was born in Mhow on 14 April 1891.
His father Subedar Major Ramji Sakpal of the Mahar Regiment was posted here.
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"बटले ले लो" रविवार २८/११/२०१०
Selling peas from a thela (handcart), Mhow, Sunday 28/11/2010
You can see the Garrison Ground too.
P. S. In the Malwi dialect which is spoken in this area मटर (peas) are known as बटले (batle)
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From my archives Nov 22, 2011.
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Its tail shivers so it's known as "thir थिरा" थिर थिरा in Hindi.
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आम पे नये पत्ते Mangifera indica
The common name mango and the genus name mangifera come from manga the Portugese word for this fruit which comes from the Malay word mangga and which in turn comes from the Tamil man-kay.
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"I need some lovin', lots of it actually... " said Dingo to Shashank and offered his back. :-) Pics courtesy Evangeline
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The TDC-316 At MCTE Mhow
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These young soldiers of the 22nd Battalion of the Sikh Regiment were some of those who were on duty that day. They will be in some other corner of the country now.
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