Glimpses from the At Home reception hosted by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Republic Day.
IMAGE: Chief Justice of India Justice Dr D Y Chandrachud appears to have an amusing conversation with Union Ministers Dr S Jaishankar, Dr Mansukh L Mandaviya (left, back to the camera) Piyush Goyal.
Also with his back to the camera, wearing a fez is former vice-president Mohammad Hamid Ansari. Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: President Murmu speaks to Honorary Captain
Yogender Singh Yadav (retd), the youngest soldier to be awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
On Captain Yadav's left is Lieutenant Colonel Jas Ram Singh (retd), winner of the Ashok Chakra.
Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to Admiral Radhakrishnan Harikumar, chief of the naval staff, at the At Home. Photograph: Press Information Bureau
IMAGE: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhuri, chief of the air staff, Admiral Harikumar watch President Murmu, Franch President Macron, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi and Dr Sudesh Dhankar arrive for the At Home. Photograph: Press Information Bureau
IMAGE: Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani seems to enjoy whatever External Affairs Minister Dr Jaishankar is telling her. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo
IMAGE: With a smile familiar to officials at the MEA, Dr Jaishankar watches the conversation flowing at a circle that includes Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief Justice Chandrachud, General Manoj C Pande, chief of the army staff, back to the camera, Air Chief Marshal Chaudhuri and Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju.
Kalpana Das Chandrachud is standing next to the raksha mantri. Neeta Chaudhuri is standing next to her husband, the CAS; Dr Archanaa Salpekar Pande is next to her husband, the COAS.
Alas, we can't identify the gentleman (back to the camera, between General Pande and Rijiju) who is the centre of the conversation. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo
IMAGE: The supreme commander with the CDS, the COAS, the CNS and the CAS and their wives. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo
IMAGE: Former President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita Kovind greet guests at the At Home reception. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo
IMAGE: The two Presidents, Dhankhar, Modi and Dr Sudesh Dhankhar pose for the photographers. Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Macron greets the CDS as former vice president Hamid Ansari looks on.
On the extreme right is former army chief General Vijay Kumar Singh, now a Union minister of state.
The Dhankhars can be spotted greeting Smriti Irani.
Also in the frame are Union Ministers Arjun Munda to Irani's left, and Anurag Thakur, Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri to Irani's right.
In the foreground, the raksha mantri and the EAM appear to be having a chat. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo
IMAGE: Modi has a word with Hamid Ansari. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo
IMAGE: President Murmu appears to savour the gulab jamuns on her plate as Modi and Macron are engaged in intense conversation. Photograph: ANI Photo
