Delhi

farmland

The blood-red grapefruit is more associated with the blood oranges of Italy but our own lal chakotra has equally impressive interior colour and a lovely fragrance as well as sour-sweet grapefruit taste.

Humayun Tomb is one of the well preserved Mughal architecture and historical structure in NEw Delhi. We take you on a virtual tour of the tomb of the Mughal emperor Humayun's final resting place.

Months of lockdown and the historic places in New Delhi were also closed for the public but now they are thrown open for public visitation again.

flowers

Two pairs of palm trees look like they are guarding the famous tomb of the Mughal emperor Humayun. A wide view of the splendid structure from centuries ago standing in the winter sun in New Delhi.

architecture · fort

Purana Quila or Old Fort in New Delhi. The massive gateway and walls of Purana Quila were built by Humayun and the foundation laid for the new capital, Dinpanah.

wildlife · highway

These rather alluring looking Ficus figs are not really human edible. Actually, they are edible but not very palatable! Birds love them, however, and a community repast of hornbills, barbets and bulbuls take in the feast! The highly nutriti…

Flattening the leavened bread by hand in slow motion and tossing in boiling oil. The flatbread is tossed in oil until fluffy and cooked. Enjoy the oddly satisfying visuals of flat leavened dough being flattened and tossed by human hands.

street food

This does not look like the safest idea, cooking inside a small car that is serving as a cooking and serving area. The owner of this business is seen cleaning the plates before preparing the vada pav.

school · politics

Lal, neeli and peeli batti cars are regularly used to drop off and fetch government, bureaucrat and police families' children from and to Sanskriti School in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

river

Life goes on for these kids, and that's the only life they know. They play in the slushy waters and river bank of the polluted Jamuna or Yamuna river, Delhi's only riverine connect.

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.

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.

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.