Dehradun

Uttarakhand

The brave and the deserving cadets at the Indian Military Academy get medals for extraordinary performance at the institute.

Uttarakhand

Raw mangoes and mango trees in the Indian Military Academy campus in Dehradun in Uttarakhand. Mangifera indica is a species of mango in the Anacardiaceae family.

Uttarakhand·architecture · hills

The area near Don Bosco School in Dehradun presents a fully developed urban cluster, where multiple multistory buildings stand together across the landscape.

Dehradun, Uttarakhand·hills · temple

A time lapse video of clouds flowing over the hills of Landour, Uttarakhand, India. Landour is a small cantonment town in upper Mussoorie near Dehradun in the northern Indian State of Uttarakhand.

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The slate and stylus are tools used by blind persons to write text that they can read without assistance.

Uttarakhand·temple · flowers

The great statue of Buddha is one of the main attraction in Dehradun. This statue is nearly 103 feet high and was constructed about 10 years ago. It is dedicated to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual guru of Tibetan people.

Uttarakhand

This precious Mantra-Taming stupa, one of the Buddha's eight types of stupas was sponsored by many donors for the sake of Buddhadharma in general and especially all sentiment beings connected to the Tsering Dhonden area.

Uttarakhand·temple

Sai Darbar Temple is a famous pilgrim site and a number of devotees flock to this temple to pay their respects.

Uttarakhand·architecture · temple

Darbar Shri Guru Ram Rai Ji Maharaj situated in the heart of Dehradun city is a magnificent monument of great historical and religious significance.

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Uttarakhand·ceremony

Cadets fully dressed and in ceremonial attire, march in the campus on the occassion of the passing out ceremony at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun. A trainee on admission to the IMA is referred to as a Gentleman Cadet.

Uttarakhand

New officers march to their new positions in the Indian army during the passing out parade of the IMA, Dehra dun. The Indian Military Academy, Dehradun (also known as IMA) is the officer training Academy of the Indian Army.

Uttarakhand·river

Fish sunning themselves in very shallow water at the edge of a small stream inside Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand, in the Dehradun district. Fish minnows gather at the edge of a flowing forest stream.

Uttarakhand·hills

Dehra dun is the capital city of the state of Uttarakhand in the northern part of India. Located in the Garhwal region, it is 236 km north of India's capital New Delhi and is one of the "Counter Magnets" of the National Capital Region (NCR)…

Uttarakhand·architecture

Dehra dun has many beautiful old buildings. Unusually in India, house roofs are slanted, as rainfall can often be heavy. As winters can be cold, houses traditionally have a fireplace, even if they also have modern central heating.

Uttarakhand·highway · bazaar

A bustling street scene in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, showing vehicles stuck in heavy traffic along a busy local market road.

Uttarakhand·bazaar · highway

Dehradun is not just a good place for sightseeing but can also be said to be every shopper's heaven. The small stores and bustling markets have plethora of priceless souvenirs that cannot be found even in the swankiest of shopping malls.

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With total ceremonial regalia, gentleman cadets walk and parade at the pass out ceremony in the Indian Military Academy.

Uttarakhand

Transcribing is the process of converting a printed text to braille. Transcribing is sometimes called translating but this latter term may have the misleading connotation that braille is a different language rather than merely a different s…

Uttarakhand·river

The Mindroling Monastery has a long history. Mindroling (pronounced as Minh-dro-lyng) literally means a 'Place of Perfect Emancipation' in Tibet and is a place of worship for the Nyingma sect of Buddhism.

Uttarakhand

The World Peace Stupa is situated in the Og Min Ogyen Mindrolling Monastery. It is a reflection of the Mindroling monastery which was established in 1676 in the Drach Valley in todays Tibet. It is 185 feet tall and 100 square feet wide.

Uttarakhand·river

It is the only martyr memorial of its kind in the history where victorious army built the memorial on the bank of river Rispana in memories of their General 'Gilapsy' with other army men as well as Gorkha General 'Balbhadra Thapa' their adv…

Uttarakhand·hills

Ripe and raw lychees adorn the trees in Himalayan foothill town of Dehradun. The lychee (Litchi chinensis) (Chinese: 荔枝; pinyin: lì zhī) is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae.