Delhi

highway · flowers

Tulips in Delhi! Are we trying to become Amsterdam? Are these new additions a welcome feature or a burden on government budgets? Is the NMDC going over-board with planting tulips and sprouts of metal, or should it use the money for betterme…

flowers · highway

New Delhi Municipal Council has gone shopping with a tender that was satisfied by a Dutch bulb supplier such as Derck Schipper.

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A gardener mali team plant winter paudh seedlings at AIIMS crossing and roundabout gardens in New Delhi. NDMC Horticulture department at work.

Mosquitoes swarm on open stagnant water surface in Delhi, fuelling dengue and chikungunyta epidemic. The Indian summer is increasingly becoming a cesspool of mosquito and other vector borne diseases.

Pariah or Black Kite (Milvus migrans govinda) hordes of raptors sit on pylones near garbage dump in India Pariah Kite hordes: Raptors become scavengers, sit on pylones near garbage dump in New Delhi, India

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India Post has so much relevance even today! The ubiquitous red metal drum of a post box with its yellow squiggly striped logo makes for an important destination for many Indians, and a source of much joy and good tidings, as letters, money…

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Getting one's ear cleaned next to a juice stand in New Delhi - hygiene and lack of it co-exists in India. This particular ear cleaner even has a tube and ointment to apply to this man's ear, to soften the wax.

Cars line up at the Max Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi run by Max Healthcare, during Covid times, as patients are brought in in Ambulances and private cars for post-Covid treatment and care, for lung and heart fibrosis issues, black…

livestock · desert

A Camel regiment of the Indian army marches along Rajpath, to show itself to the nation, and display the need for camel prowess in protecting the desert borders of India, with Pakistan! Yes, in this day and age, camels still do service in t…

The National Security Guard or NSG 'Black cats' commandos in full gear parade at the Rajpath during the celebration of India's 72nd Republic Day in New Delhi.

These suar or sungur love garbage and nosing around in refuse, and that is where they get their nutrition from.

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Lizard of the Calotes kind crawls up leaves and undergrowth with ease, keeps its mouth or gape open, showing its menacing teeth, and nods up and down in a threatening fashion.

These trucks are spraying sanitizer onto the roads of Delhi. A tractor is pulling a large spraying mechanism along, and spraying the roads. A man carries a back-pack pump to spray along the pavements.

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Parking at Yusuf Sarai is chaotic once more, people double park and jut out onto the road and everyone is more cavalier and relaxed ignorant than ever before! It's going to be a nightmare to get discipline back into peoples' lives! So the l…

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See people transact for pouches of milk or re-filling their milk cans from the coin-operated slot machine. They all wear masks as do the Mother Dairy booth attendants.

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After weeks of nationwide lockdown following the Covid 19 pandemic in India, day to day activities are slowly resuming in the national capital.

highway · flowers

The normally crowded Rajouri Garden - Paschim Vihar belt of West Delhi turns into a ghost-town with virtually no vehicles on the road, no pedestrians and little sign of life.

The long-awaited Covid 19 vaccination which had earlier put the global populace in despair is here in India too and the vaccination drive has started in the heart of India, New Delhi.

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These minen ratta rodent denizens of Delhi emerge to the surface to scavenge and then return to their underground network of burrows that run for miles on end - a full chuha world under our feet. Chuha bhaga apne bil mein.

wildlife · highway

A colony of rats emerging from an underground burrow network near Safdarjung and along the Ring Road, New Delhi, India.

Indian shooters and foreign shooters compete in the rifle, pistol and shotgun categories during the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup held in New Delhi in 2017.

The life of a garbage collector in a city like New Delhi is not easy. With millions of residents making tonnes of trash every day, the job must demand a lot especially when it's trash like the ones in the video.

It is an absurd law for these police volunteers (who undoubtedly receive a commission on their receipts!) that not wearing a mask while driving alone in closed air-conditioned car with windows shut is illegal, but walking on roads sans mask…