Rajpath, India
Sunday, 31st July 2005 by James Turnbull
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The Rashtrapati Bhavan is the Official residence of the President of India. At the back of the building you can see the 13 acre gardens with Mughal style canals and fountains.
To the east is the Rajpath ('Kings Way'). Along the Rajpath there is the Republic Day Parade, an annual celebration of the adoption of the Constitution in 1950. As there is not much crowed along the road this could be the dress rehearsal of the parade which is held on the 24th of January each year. The parade starts here and you can follow it all the way along to the India Gate, a memorial built in commemoration of Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Afghan Wars.
As the procession continues past the India Gate you can see an aeroplane on the north-west side of the roundabout, and on the north-east side the large cylindrical object is apparently a AGNI-II, an intermediate range ballistic missile.
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For the first time, I think we can precisely date this picture.
The picture was taken January 26, few minutes after 10 AM.
Who can be more precise ? I can’t find the year. Who can ?
For the date : http://www.geocities.com/gthaliath/pages/rday.htm For the hour, look at the shadows and the text above : “The magnificent procession started at exactly 10 am”
If this is an image of India’s Republic Day Parade then it would explain the plane.
It sure looks like a parade to me! VERY cool!
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If it is a parade, I don’t see people or at least they aren’t very clear in the picture.
Judging from the low crowd, it could be one of the many rehearsals of the R-Day parade.
To the north-west corner of the Amar Jawan edifice, you do see an TAAL Trainer; however to the north-east corner of the Amar Jawan edifice, that longish cylindrical thing that is being towed is actually AGNI-II, an INTERMEDIATE RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE 🙂
This photograph was most probably taken on the 24th of January 2005 or so – the full dress rehearsal for the 2005 Republic Day parade (held on the 26th of January).
Regards, Ashutosh
Umm I think your NorthEast and NorthWest’s are mixxed up…
Oh yeah… Thanks infinity.
If you pan to the west, to just beyond the upper row of blue-roofed buildings, you can see the staging area for the parade vehicles. They’re parked facing north, ready to go around the fountain (?) and turn south to the parade route where they turn to the east.
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