November, 2016
INDIA REMEMBERS
India Remembers engages with communities across India and empowers them to discover, explore and remember fallen Indian Armed Forces’ personnel and their places of commemoration.
This monthly newsletter will provide you with updates about the activities and recent events organised by communities across the country. It will also tell you how to become a community group and give you some tips and suggestion to help in conducting remembrance activities.
Highlights
New Delhi
Students and staff of Bright Futures visited Indian War Memorial Museum.
India Remembers joined the British High Commission for Remembrance Sunday at the CWGC Delhi War Cemetery.
Ahlcon International School, Mayur Vihar, organised a lecture by Maj. Gen. Ian Cardozo, AVSM, SM (Retd.).
Punjab
Armed Forces Preparatory Institute with Mai Bhago Armed Forces Preparatory Institute, Mohali, conducted a seminar titled “Know the Armed Forces”.
Students of Yadavindra Public School, Patiala, visited a local war memorial.
West Bengal War veterans from Bhondsi Village, Haryana, with Sqn. Ldr. Rana Chhina, Secretary and Editor, Centre For Armed Senior boys of St. Paul’s School, Forces Historical Research and Brig. Mark Goldsack, CBE, Defence Advisor, British High Commission, New Delhi. Darjeeling, visited Batasia Loop War Memorial. While the proposal for institutionalising a Day of Remembrance in the St. Paul’s School, Darjeeling, held a country is under consideration, India Remembers community groups, Remembrance Mass at the school chapel. through the course of the pilot project, chose existing significant dates to undertake commemorative activities to honour and remember Indian Anugyalaya Darjeeling Diocese Social Service Society organised an defence personnel who served and died in various military operations since Inter-school Drawing Competition 1914 till date. and took a large group of children on a trip to Batasia Loop War Memorial. One of those significant dates was the first Sunday that followed
St. Stephen’s Primary School, Remembrance Day - 11th November. This day is observed in the United Sikkim, organised an Inter-school Kingdom and Commonwealth Nations as Remembrance Sunday. India Drawing Competition and a cultural programme to felicitate a local Remembers community groups observed Remembrance Sunday (13th retired defence personnel. November) by participating in Remembrance ceremonies and visiting their local war memorials. In Delhi, three community groups, namely Bright Maharashtra Futures, an NGO that works towards the empowerment of children of Pedal Power Foundation with Gazipur in East Delhi, Ahlcon International School, Mayur Vihar, and war Kendriya Vidyalaya BEG, Pune, organised a commemorative event veterans from Bhondsi Village, Harayana, took part in the remembrance at the CWGC Kirkee War service that was organised at the CWGC Delhi War Cemetery by the British Cemetery. Members of Pedal Power High Commission. Foundation with members of the History Club, College of More updates on what other community groups did on this day are Engineering, Pune, toured local war memorials and museums. mentioned below.