
Maun Mela fishing festival and traffic near twin bridges in Uttarakhand
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Maun Mela, a traditional community fishing festival held along the Aglar River in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
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Frogs in a well try to crawl out, slip back on algae: Life in frog well, analogy with life in India! What frog species is this middle Himalayan altitude mendhak? We filmed this at our wildfilmsindia wetlands in the middle Himalaya, around Pari Tibba Estate and Motidhar, along the origin of the Bindal-Rispana nadi, in the monsoon of 2022. When the throat puffs out, the re seems to emanate a strange orange light or glow from within the puff! Could that really be? Frog puffs its throat into orange sack and calls out, around our Himalayan ponds and stream below Mussoorie Frogs in a well try to crawl out, slip back on the algae: Life in a frog well and analogy with life in India! Enlarging its throat pouch is this Himalayan frog species, as it tries to get its call to carry far and wide, and te
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