Delhi

flowers · wildlife

Hanging Lobster Claw, a common flower in the tropical areas in full bloom at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. The inflorescence seen in close ups with ants closing in on the flower.

highway

Hoovering up a few morsels from the roadside, this stray dog on Delhi's streets must have one hell of an immunity, eating from the dirt, eating old stale leftovers and having no clean water to drink. It's a tough life being an Indian dog!

Stray Dogs and Cats of Delhi city - Every colony has its own pack, and residents would do well to befriend them. The mutts laze around in the sun, enjoying the cooler weather, and the safety of their pack dynamics.

industry · politics

Construction at Safdarjung Hospital, and around Kidwai Nagar. Private development is not allowed, but government can do what their please, and built even multi-storey buildings where development rules do not permit the same...

A man cuts iron rods and bars as well as steel strips, using a Bosch cutting and grinding tool, with power coming from a Koel Green generator, along a roadside in New Delhi.

livestock · highway

Goats are still bred in Delhi, for milk and meat. This flock of goats seems to have been let loose by its owner, to find whatever green feed that they can, along a rough patch of land near a busy road...

highway

This boy sells Indian flags at traffic lights near IIT gate on the Ring Road in New Delhi. Are these flags 'Made in China'? There is a strong possibility that they indeed are, and what an irony that would be.

bazaar

This footage captures the bustling atmosphere of Sarojini Nagar Market, one of South Delhi's most well-known shopping destinations.

What Nymphalidae family butterfly species would this be? Filmed in our Orchard in Delhi, this is not en Eggfly either.

music

Bansuri wallah of Dilli : Flautist walks the marketplaces of Delhi, to sell flutes and entertain one and all Mohammad Salman, the flautist, roams Delhi markets, playing his flute, and trying to sell bansuri wooden flutes.

highway · industry

The draw of a free meal is a strong and powerful imperative when the stomach is empty and the wallet even emptier. Free food is distributed on a road side in Delhi, as the homeless, hungry or plain poor land up for a free meal.

school

Incidents inside the JNU Campus after demands to revoke the hike in fees. A female faculty from JNU is seen relating the ordeal of students and staff who were injured in the incident.

See the hordes who have turned up and are being fed! And see the enormous quantities of Daal chawal Roti that has been cooked in hordes to be served to the protesting farmers at Kisan Morcha at Jantar Mantar

highway · politics

Farmers blockaded Delhi in politically-motivated agitation, now the protests are over, did anything come of them? Nihang and Amritdhari Sikh folks wind up their protest at the Delhi - Ghaziabad border, in preparation for the end of the farm…

A Punjab farmer's tractor and the farmer's wife: Both turn up with the farmer himself, for the farmer protests outside Delhi.

politics

Punjab farmers protest at Delhi's border, tuck in to a healthy hot meal and jalebis and other goodies, with support of politicians. Food is served in iron buckets, to aid in distribution. Water arrives in Dal Jal Board tankers.

politics

Archival footage of a Congress victory in the past. Men jump around and dance in jubilation with party flags strapped on their shirts, to the rapid beats of drums.

politics

A lone guard sits on duty at the AAP headquarters in New Delhi on the day of election results counting and declaration. It is almost as if they knew that the elections of 2019 were to bring them dismal results.

Plastic was to have been banned, but these enormous Ganesha idols are covered in plastic, to protect them from the rain. Clearly, the plastic will be dumped just as the idols will, once their work is done.

highway · snow

Drive from the plains of north India, and the city of Delhi up to the mountains, and right up to the source of the Ganga or Ganges river at Gangotri.

music · festival

North east Fashion Fest presents Tonu Riba with her fusion collection at the Fest-Delhi 2013.

A shell less air-breathing gastropod found in gardens and are a pest to food crops. Members of this genus are found even in aquatic conditions.

Outside our house in Delhi, this Wolf Snake appeared and caught hold of the regular Indian urban chhipkalli or House Gecko.