Delhi

highway

An indigent Indian woman cooks food on a roadside in Delhi: Desperation of poverty in winter-time north India.

forest

These Wild Mushrooms crowd our forest floor in Delhi, as the monsoon rains have hit, but you must NOT eat them! One cannot easily tell the edible from the poisonous ones so it is best to buy them from a reliable source, and not hazard the r…

The Covid19 numbers may have come down post the second wave, as everyone infectable in Delhi seems to have already been infected and either died or recovered, but the rush outside Safdarjung Hospital seems to be absent, with few takers for…

school

Dry food rations are distributed for free to migrant labour and the destitute at a school n Moti Bagh, Delhi, on the basis of Aadhar or ration cards, as part of the dole for Covid19, during the lockdown.

school

These people respect the social distancing rule and are in line, even while being one meter apart, standing in white circles drawn on the ground, with chalk.

highway · bazaar

An aerial journey from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, over the new Kidwai Nagar flats and office buildings, towards Barapullah, INA Market, and Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

bus

Due to the Corona Pandemic India had a two-month long lockdown which has been opened partially in parts of the country. Watch this to see glimpses of the activities slowly coming back to what it used to be.

highway

These minen ratta rodent denizens of Delhi emerge to the surface to scavenge and then return to their underground network of burrows that run for miles on end - a full chuha world under our feet.

politics

Sonia Gandhi wife of the Lt Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, President Shankar Dayal Sharma arrives at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies in New Delhi.

flowers · farmland

Phalaenopsis or Phaius tankervilleae (Nun's Orchid) flowering in Wilderness Orchard, Delhi. See the harvest from a single bed in spring 2020, during the lockdown! We had multiple harvests for self consumption...

flowers

Hired hands at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi busy watering and transporting the Chrysanthemums which are almost blooming in early winter and late autumn.

Rajiv Gandhi with fellow Congress politicians arrive at the Congress office in New Delhi. A smiling and fresh-faced Rajiv Gandhi smiles at the camera.

crafts

Jyotindra Jain speaks about National Crafts Museum in New Delhi. He says, "The prime movers were first of all Kamla Devi Chattopadhyay and later on Mrs.

temple · architecture

Amid the din of car and scooter horns, the Gurudwara Sisganj Sahib in Chandni Chowk bears a peaceful visage in line with its inner sanctuary for those seeking out the same.

monsoon

The end of Delhi summers coincide with the monsoons. This makes Delhi experience two kinds of weather on most of the days in the summer/monsoon months.

festival

The effigies of Raavan, Meghnath and Kumbhkaran to celebrate the victory of good over evil, while a fourth effigy symbolise corruption.

street food · festival

National Street Food Festival was held at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium Complex from 20th to 22nd December, 2013. This festival is the third edition of the festival organised by National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI).

temple · architecture

Pigeons mill around as the loud speakers announce Eid instructions for Islamic believers at the largest mosque in Asia - the Jama Masjid. The huge domes of this mosque dominate the Old Delhi landscape.

river

Hindu baba smokes chillum - two nostrils emit slow motion smoke plumes!, with the Manimahesh stream flowing with great energy behind him.

forest

The lush green Jahanpanah city forest next to Greater Kailash colony stands out in similarly stark contrast to New York city with Central Park in the middle! The green of Jahanpanah city forest and the VSNL compound forest are much needed t…

monsoon · politics

Lack of an adequate number of shelter homes leads to people to sleep on footpaths outside AIIMS, Delhi.

Oriyas in Delhi pray to Lord Jagannath during the Rath Yatra season, with cymbal clashes and bells being rung, for rhythm. Note the face masks on all the believers and the pujari at the temple.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's address, followed by questions from the audience, at the Indian National Commission for Minorities fourth annual lecture held in New Delhi, India, on 10 August 2011. (www.dalailama.com)