I. BENGAL'S NEW GOVERNOR

I. BENGAL'S NEW GOVERNOR - An unfamiliar face, and an unfamiliar title, he's the new Governor of Bengal, but it's still Mr and Mrs Casey. Here he's having a word with the Commander of the Sind District, and Mrs Casey asks the first of the myriad questions they'll both be asking about India. A top line war personality he's usually the man who knows the answers, but to Reuter's Mr Wagle, he said he wanted time to learn and think before he spoke about Bengal.

II. GURU GOVIND SINGH: THE CELEBRATION OF A MILITANT SPIRIT

II. GURU GOVIND SINGH: THE CELEBRATION OF A MILITANT SPIRIT - travel only when you must - here's a way of travelling when you mustn't. The train got through alright, but the guard broke down and cried like a child. They were going to celebrate the anniversary of Guru Govind Singh, he was one of the Sikhs' ten Gurus, and he taught them to be a martial race. Hence the soldiers in these pictures. Kartar Singh Diwan of the Khalsa Defence league talked to them, and then Captain Macdonald put his heart into telling them what the could do in this war. Guru Govind Singh was far sighted. A martial spirit is still a very necessary thing for any people, provided they remember that the proper aim of war is peace, and the things that go with it. So Mukteshwar had a horse fair. Even if you don't know anything about horse-breeding, it's easy to see that these animals are fine specimens of the breeders' skill. I suppose it's old fashioned to associate soldiers with horses, but it still seems a fitting end to a martial celebration.

III. FESTIVE CONJEEVARAM

III. FESTIVE CONJEEVARAM - The Gods are great travellers - down the long road of Hindu legend they come and go, marking each year with a ritual journey. Here at Conjeevaram the Deity climbs two thousand steps, each step crowded with a hundred devotees, there to see him home to his temple. Look closely at them - their tonsured heads, the marks on their foreheads - all like a note of symbols, cast out into past times, pulled back to the present heavy with memories. The devotees climb their two thousand steps and go down them again, their little journey symbolising for them the more mysterious expedition which takes them from their birth to grave.

IV. RECRUITMENT & REJOICEMENT

IV. ADJUSTMENT & REJOICEMENT - This map shows how sixty-eight thousand men joined India's non-combatant services in two years, and here in Delhi are some of the men who did the recruiting job,. It's a paradox, but the bigger wars get, the more people there are who are in army and never see the fighting. But for all that, they are as essential as the Bren Gun to winning the war. So the Commander-in-Chief with lady Auchinleck, came to offer his congratulations on the big total of India's Army behind the Army. Naturally, there was a tea-party for interested persons to talk over this social revolution which has been worked in the lives of sixty-eight thousand men. There was a presentation of a silver tank to the Director of recruitment. A handsome gift, even if the designer had thought up one or two improvements of his own.

V. BEHIND THE SCENES IN AIR DEFENCE

V. BEHIND THE SCENES IN AIR DEFENCE - Behind the scenes and behind the headlines - Newspaper Editors see how the news they print is made in action. They took a look over a fighter plane first, key weapon in the defence of India's vast coastline. Next they were shown how a parachute opens. Editors Brelvi and Srinivasan then heard at first hand what goes on to make up those terse communiqus they publish. The pilots are being briefed. Enemy motor torpedo boats have been sighted approaching the coast. The Duty Dispersal airman shouts 'Scramble', and pilots dash for their planes while a Verey light goes up to warn the ground crews. Their job is to start up the planes, and the fights on. Air Commodore Mackworth who staged the demonstration, India's editors have witnessed one reason for feeling sure they'll never have to print Stop press items about the Jap setting foot in our country.

VI. THE VICEROY ON THE HOME FRONT

VI. THE VICEROY ON THE HOME FRONT - Bombay grows daily into a world important city, and the viceroy's visit gave some interesting reasons why. First, Bombay's an airport, and Lord Wavell and the Vicereine were received by the governor and lady Colville on the tarmac. It's a great centre of India's defence, and distinguished servicemen took their part in the welcome. The bigger the city, the bigger its food problems. The Viceroy saw how Bombay's rationing worked, and how grain shops now stock vegetables, the next problem in prices to be tackled. Rationing is vital in Bombay because she's a great industrial city. That, in wartime, means armaments and a tour of some of the factories gave a glimpse of the people that rationing protects, and the armaments they make to protect us. But the warp and woof of Bombay life is spun in cotton. It's a cotton city, and its biggest figures, like Sir Ness Wadia, are cotton industrialists. This part of the tour gave the Viceroy a picture of the true heart of Bombay. But she began by being the best port of the West Coast. That's why the Portuguese settled here, and that's why Bombay was given as a dowry to England's Charles the Second. With the Chairman of the Port trust, the Viceroy sees what's been done with that wedding gift that Charles' England all but forgot. Lord Wavell had a chance to size up the problems of defending Bombay Port before he went on to meet Commodore Rattray, and paid a visit to a unit of the Royal Indian Navy that lay in the harbour. Perhaps of all the changes that Bombay has seen, this growing new navy is, for her, the most significant. India is a maritime country, and that, these days, means that she needs a Navy. Young as it is, India's Navy is urgently essential. From the harbour Lord Wavell came to the Gateway of India, centre of Viceregal pageantry in the old days, now passed without a glance by India's wartime Viceroy.