Delhi

Ravana affigies are made with golden paper at Titarpur in Delhi. Ravana demons ar readied for filling with fire crackers and then being blasted on dussehra day in New Delhi.

monsoon · highway

The dips have been poorly planned for water pumping, and when it rains heavily, cars and bikes get inundated in the accumulated pools and drivers often skid in Delhi's monsoon driving nightmare.

highway

highway

Slow moving cargo, goods and Coal trains bring koyla to Delhi city, for powering our cities with polluting coal! Maal gaadi at Lodhi colony railway station in New Delhi: Goods trains still chug into New Delhi, running on coal and electricit…

ceremony · highway

In time for the season of prayer and offering to the Hindu elephant god, women paint Ganesh idols on a roadside in Delhi, in time for the Ganesh Chaturthi season.

Street side roti making sped up at Kuda Ghar dhaba in Delhi: hygiene be damned, food in the belly first

temple · festival

Women, men and children accompany the Janmashtami procession as it makes its way to the temple, organized as a Maha Shobha Yathra by the Vrindavanam Balagokulam.

highway · bus

The new New Delhi skyline comprises of ugly multi storeyed government buildings and a mixture of transport types, causing noise and air pollution.

ceremony

Shia women without hijab file past the Anjuman Dasta in Old Delhi, in preparation for Muharram - August 2022. Namaaz prayers are offered by Shia Muslims as well, prior to their self flagellation mourning for Husayn's martyrdom.

ceremony · music

What rhythmic voices and fabulously tuneful singins, for the mourning occasion of Muharram of the Shia community in India.

bazaar

Women and young girls come to Sarojini Nagar market in New Delhi for rakhi deals, to prepare for rakhi and buy rakhi strings for their brothers, cousin brothers and others to whom they tie the festive threads.

birds

This Coppersmith or Crimson-breasted Barbet can hold onto a wooden trunk even UPSIDE down, as it feeds its chicks in nest hole, in a Persian Lilac of Bakain tree in Delhi.

When you have new export surplus T-shirts and shirts going for Rs. 100 each (US$1.20 per item), do you still bargain when shopping at Sarojini Nagar, Delhi's largest discounted street shopping hub? Sarojini Nagar is bargaining capital of I…

architecture · highway

After the fire tragedy, Uphaar cinema is now in urban decay in Green Park, South Delhi. Uphaar Cinema - Urban Decay in Green Park, Delhi Uphaar Grand Cinema building lies neglected in heart of Green Park Delhi: Trial by Fire for Ansals? The…

ceremony

A white horse is bedecked and prepared for the mourning occasion of Muharram of the Shia community in India. Shia Muslims of India mourn the martyrdom of Husayn at Ahura of Muharram, in Old Delhi on 9th August 2022.

ceremony

Shia Muslims of India mourn the martyrdom of Husayn at Ahura of Muharram, in Old Delhi on 9th August 2022.

Is this bandar using the dog as a free ride, or is there something more deep and genuine going on here? Dog and Macaque team up on Delhi streets: Simian con job on innocent canine, or genuine friendship?

politics

J Jayalalithaa archival footage: at work in her office, in assembly, with the people: "I demand a re-vote! As you all know, I have been invited to Delhi by the Prime Minister and the Home Minister, to discuss state issues.

birds · wildlife

Summer-time nesting of the Green Barbet in a hollow tree trunk hole in a Bakain or Persian Lilac tree, in crowded busy New Delhi city.

industry

Such is the quality of life for these poor hard-working labourers that the only break that they get from their drain-cleaning manual scavenging work is for a short and brief cup of tea which also they must drink while down in a drain.

industry · bazaar

Daily wage labourers wait around for daily wage work at a labour market in South Delhi. This is actually a market for human beings to be traded on the basis of a day's work, for construction or other human labour requirements.