Delhi

temple · architecture

It appears that religion is catching up with access for the differently abled and aged folks in India... This gurudwara clearly has their act together! Sikh folks come in to pray at a Delhi gurudwara or Sikh temple.

On an average day, the kitchen at Gurudwara Sis Ganj in Delhi's Chandni Chowk area cooks around 500 kilos of dal with over a ton of rice and 500-600 kgs of vegetables to feed the thousands of people who come to partake of its langar.

bazaar · street food

India goes in for online payment and digital wallets and currency! Two Delhi girls buy roasted Corn on the cob as a Sarojini Nagar market street food offering, New Delhi, and they pay by UPI on their mobile phone and show the payment confir…

railway · highway

Black as tar, Coal and goods / cargo trains enter Delhi, and then we complain about air pollution in our cities! We bring train and truck loads of coal into Delhi, burn it for power and industry, and then complain when air pollution ranking…

ceremony · river

What a festival of colour Chhat has turned into. Women dress in almost bridal finery to pray to the Sun god, standing shin deep in cold water in the late autumn season, as music blares from loud speakers, in an improvised government-created…

ceremony · river

Worshipping the sun god by an artificial plastic sheet lined water body, by the Purvanchali population of Delhi. Sugarcane stalks, banana bunches and banana leaves signify fertility, success, a good harvest and an offering to the gods...

Ghagra or an ethnic Indian skirt made of bamboo frames and papers decorated with colourful stickers as Delhi gears up for Dussehra festival.

village

Starting with some basic cane and stripped bamboo, these village craftsment create the basic outer frame for the giant dressed with paper statues of Ravana who gets blasted with firecrackers on Dussehra day.

dance · festival

Kassiyet Adilkhankyzy performing Bharatnatyam at 3rd International Dance Festival. Kassiyet Adilkhankyzy belongs to Kazakhstan. She was attracted to Bharatnatyam at the age of seven in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

festival · village

Delhi's oldest mall Ansal Plaza celebrates a festival for Momos - see a lovely aerial view of Gulmohar Park and the neighbourhood along the Khel Gaon Marg.

highway · politics

A deep bore well being dug by a government contractor for the SDMC in Delhi's Chhatarpur area. More ground water extraction and over utilization is leading to a steep fall in underground water resources across north India.

railway · highway

An electric locomotive train enters Chanakyapuri Railway Station in New Delhi: Our city under-utilizes a fantastic train network A diesel train pulls into a train station at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi.

If the Rabdi Jalebi of Old Dekhi is not already lovely enough, the word 'special' is added to it to further increase its allure! Milk thickened continuously and then sugar and dried fruit added makes this divine indeed...

music · bazaar

A performance of music and song from Indonesia, in New Delhi, during the Food for thought Fest 2018 organized by the Embassy of Indonesia in India. A very Gamelan type sound emanates from the group...

music

This video presents old footage from 2003, recorded at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi, organized by the Pandit Chatur Lal Memorial Society with support from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).

Learning to live with the virus, Delhi has returned to some semblance of normalcy, and the crowds are back in the lanes of Old Delhi, despite the restrictions.

snow · fort

Tilla kulfi is the Indian ice cream that is set around a little stick. A vendor or Kulfi wala sells traditional Indian ice cream product outside the gates of Delhi's Lal Kila or Red Fort, while tourists and visitors mill around the premises…

river

The detergent and sewage pollution in the Jumna or Yamuna river is so extreme that it is entirely possible that the polluted poisonous fish that these fishermen will pull out of the vile waters will have two heads or other genetic mutations…

A pregnant Squirrel or Gilheri (Funambulus pennanti) is filmed on a terrace in South Delhi in close up. The female is filmed nibbling on scraps of roti left on the terrace. The roti looks hard and cold but the rodent needs to eat.

See the inside of a mithai ki dukan in Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi. Despit Covid, customers feel comfortable visiting an Indian sweets shop and buying rasmalai, gulab jamun, kala jaam, rasogolla and more.

politics · highway

A sign board of the Pavitra Hindustan Kaazhagam / Kazhagam the President of which is Ram Jethmalani. The head office is 11, Harish Chandra Mathur Lane, New Delhi 1.

school

Fly over DU's North Campus and see the lovely green spaces of Delhi University, around St. Stephen's College and Hindu and other college campuses that can be seen from the air.