Delhi

river · ceremony

A florist segregating used flowers at Nigambodh Ghat in Delhi. These flowers are reused after the offering in the temple. Marigolds, orchids, and roses are being used to form the garlands. Nigambodh Ghat IS Delhi's oldest cremation ground.

Portrait exhibition of the Indian freedom fighters in Delhi by Swatantrata Andolan Samiti. The gallery was lined with the portraits of revolutionists and freedom fighters some of which are widely known the rest, however, were presented to t…

Delhites flock to Rajpath lawns to taste different cuisines of Indian states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh among other stalls of various culinary institutes from Delhi.

bazaar · flowers

A walk in Delhi's biggest flower market, Ghazipur Phool Mandi. Fresh flowers packed and ready to bee shipped out for smaller retailers in the city.

As the sun sets over the 12th century Qutub Minar and the illumination turns on, an ominous moon rises over Delhi, orange and blood moon like!

wildlife · birds

A feeding station adjacent to the street filled with a huge flock of Rock Pigeons feeding on grains. The pigeons are caught in flight in slow motion.

bus

How many of us know that the bus stands in South Delhi get a maintenance and cleaning job? Hired hands for JC Decaux, a sanitation company are seen at work at a bus stand at Raj Nagar, South Delhi.

bazaar

After lock-down restrictions were lifted in Delhi post the second wave of Coronavirus in Delhi, people get back to life as usual and go to shop in various market places.

SDMC or NDMC, as the case may be, is certainly putting some of its tax money to use! See an open air kiddie gymnasium at Lodhi Gardens in Delhi : free for all work out for children of the neighbourhood.

highway · industry

This footage shows municipal workers carrying out routine roadside irrigation in New Delhi, India.

ceremony · river

The solemn atmosphere of Nigambodh Ghat, one of Delhi's oldest Hindu cremation grounds, located on the banks of the Yamuna River.

highway

A truck full of cauliflower. What’s so special about that, you’d ask? If you take a closer look, you’ll see they haven’t been tied together. And yet not a single cauliflower falls off the truck.

Delhiites enjoy Odia cuisines like Chenna Poda, Mal Pua, etc. at the annual Odisha Parba in Delhi.The three-day festival, see the lawns of India Gate comes alive with Odisha’s rich cultural heritage - from its regional dance and music to ga…

A three phase 5 KVA Kirloskar underground sewage tank motor pump gets repaired and re-wound at Khalsa Electricals in Kotla, New Delhi. What a complicated sort of process this appears to be, and a necessarily reliable outcome is critical...

birds · wildlife

Like a contra rebel, the Pied Myna is coloured, perhaps? See the erstwhile named Sturnus contra. A pair of Pied Myna or Asian Pied Starling (Gracupica contra) sits on the branches of an Acacia tree near their nests.

wildlife · birds

Magpie family corvids or crow-like Tree Pies sit on and around their twig nest on a Teak tree in Delhi. While the female incubates the eggs, the male sits around the nest and keeps her company.

birds

A solo Red-vented Bulbul perches on a Persian Lilac tree branch and picks on a raw fruit. The red vent under its tail is clearly seen in the evening light. The bird unsatisfied with the raw fruit goes on to pick a Karonda fruit.

ceremony · festival

Eid al-Adha, also called Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival, the Greater Eid, Kurban Bayram and Bakrid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) to…

festival

Indian Shia Muslims flagellate themselves as a part of mourning on Muharram in Delhi. In India, there is great diversity of religious beliefs and practices.

Muslim devotees pray at Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi. It is one of the Dargahs’ around the world which see hundreds of Muslims, Hindus as well as Christians every day! It makes no discrimination amongst any religion and welcomes peopl…