Delhi

festival · politics

Smt. Rupa Tiwary from Lucknow sings Hindustani Classical devotional at the Delhi International Arts Festival. Delhi International Arts Festival India’s ‘Signature Festival’ is the longest multi arts, multi venue cultural festival.

A desi hookah is a clay-based structure, with a chilam at the top of the hookah is a straight conical pipe with the end-to-end channel, traditionally made of clay and used since at least the eighteenth century.

The residence of the President of the Republic of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan towards the end of the Rajpath on the western side. A drive inside the path that the President must be taking day in and day out under a colourful sunset.

monsoon

Residents of South Delhi flood the 'Baba Ka Dhaba' street shop in Malviya Nagar for their food after the viral video of the elderly couple facing dearth of customers. Customers buying rotis and rice meal with dal curry.

street food · highway

Street vendors selling chai or tea are common in New Delhi. Locally named Chaiwalla, these street vendors sell tea made on the roadside itself.

railway

The festive season is here again in India accompanying the autumn and winter seasons. Corona seems to have no effect in dampening the festive spirit here in Paharganj as hundreds are bustling in and around the food courts near the New Delhi…

highway

Besides the nonstop flow of motor vehicles on the streets of Delhi, are these refreshing sight of bicycle peddlers with their carts loaded with furniture and other household items.

highway · flowers

As the new year arrives and Delhi looks forward to a colourful spring, maintenance work takes place. A gardener is seen watering the small flower garden near Ring Road opposite the government housing buildings.

wildlife · birds

A female Corvus splendens incubates eggs on her nest in Delhi. a second female crow edges in. It seems the two females have a strange arrangement of co-nidification or nest sharing and egg laying in the same nest.

birds · flowers

Perfect camouflage! A Rose-Ringed Parakeet is filmed sitting on a Jamun tree at our Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. Unaware of the camera, the bird goes about stripping the tree of remaining jamuns after the first harvest.

Woodpeckers reign in tree trunks but how many of us have seen their tongues? We take you on a glimpse of life for these headbangers filmed at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

birds

Below final completion of its pendulous nest which looks more like a junk agglomeration, this male Purple Sunbird male tends to its newly-made nest, stitching in soft fibrous materials and attaching them to the next which hangs from a Wiste…

temple

The Corona crisis has made movement more restricted than ever for everyday people and it has also diminished crowds at religious festivals.

street food

A street food vendor near Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, India, deep-fries marinated chicken pieces in a large, heavy-bottomed iron kadhai filled with bubbling oil.

music

This was a 1990's international symphonic orchestra that visited and performed in Delhi, under the auspices of the ICCR or Indian Council of Cultural Relations.

politics

Late Sheila Dikshit may have been a Chief Minister of the National Capital but she grew up just like anyone else. She talks at length on her childhood days, her family.

festival · music

JazzMed, an Austria based Jazz band performs at the annual Delhi International Jazz Festival. This festival is organised by ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations) at Nehru Park, Delhi.

XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners of (Pole Vault Men’s), Steve Hooker of Australia (Gold), Steven Lewis of England (Silver) and Max Eaves of England (Bronze), during the medal ceremony of the event.

Maharashtra tableau showcasing the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji at Rajpath during Republic Day Parade 2018 in Delhi. He was coronated on 6 June 1674. The tableau of Lakshadweep highlights the local culture of people.

Muslim man making Rumali rotis, halwa prantha, etc on the occasion of Shab e barat at Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi. A famous delicacy called as Halwa Paratha.

politics

Children honoured with National Bravery Awards wave at spectators during R-Day in Delhi. Republic Day: It was on 26th January, 1950 that the Indian Constitution came into effect, making India a Republic.

festival · flowers

Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejrival presents momento to artists participated in Phool Walon Ki Sair cultural program. Phool Walon Ki Sair or "procession of the florists" is an annual celebration by the flowers sellers of Delhi.