Congratulations to the Australia India Institute for this celebration.
The Australia India Institute has celebrated the untold history of the ANZAC-India relationship formed at Gallipoli in 1915.
Serving alongside the ANZACs for their entire campaign were troops of Britain’s Indian Army – gunners and drivers of two Indian mountain batteries. An Indian infantry brigade and a large Supply and Transport force soon joined them, with over 16,000 Indians serving on Gallipoli.
The Institute hosted the untold story of the Anzac-India friendship, with one of Australia’s most distinguished military social historians Professor Peter Stanley.
He shared the role Indian troops played and the remarkable positive relationship that grew at Gallipoli between Anzacs and Indians.
Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts and Indian Consul General Melbourne Dr. Sushil Kumar, were part of this significant event. Indian Veterans who attended.
As part of this celebration of this unrecognised history, Mark Trayling presented the Bahadur painting to the Institute. The Bahadur painting was painted-by-mouth by Mr Ghosh, a resident of the Paraplegic Centre for Armed Forces in Pune, India.
Author: Stephen Manallack
Former President, Australia India Business Council, Victoria and Author, You Can Communicate; Riding the Elephant; Soft Skills for a Flat World (published by Tata McGraw-Hill INDIA); Communicating Your Personal Brand.
Director, EastWest Academy Pty Ltd and Trainer/Speaker/Mentor in Leadership, Communication and Cross Cultural Communication.
Passionate campaigner for closer western relations with India.
Stephen Manallack is a specialist on “Doing Business with India” and advisor/trainer on “Cross-Cultural Understanding”. He is a Director of EastWest Academy Pty Ltd which provides strategic advice and counsel regarding business relations with India.
A regular speaker in India on leadership and global communication, his most recent speaking tour included a speech to students of the elite Indian university, Amity University, in Noida. He also spoke at a major Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) global summit, the PR Consultants Association of India in Delhi, the Symbiosis University in Pune and Cross-Cultural Training for Sundaram Business Services in Chennai. He has visited India on business missions on 10 occasions and led three major trade missions there. He provides cross-cultural training – Asia and the west.
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