Delhi

highway · bus

Hurtling along at a great speed are the CNG buses of Delhi, overtaking and driving rashly and at a great speed, mingling with a mix of pedestrians, bicycle, three-wheeler auto rickshaw, car and truck traffic.

monsoon

Homeless families gather in heavy monsoon rain outside Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, waiting for cooked food and warm meals from philanthropists who pass by in their vans, distributing the same to the needy.

highway · bus

Burgundy-red and green CNG low floor buses of Delhi. Metro station with life and traffic under a flyover, autos cross over. Life around a metro station in Delhi, totally shaded by a network of concrete flyovers.

flowers

Plastic flowers in full bloom inside this florist shop in Sarojini Nagar. Devoid of customers, but these flowers in al colours are ready to be bought.

bazaar

Stalls in Green Park, South Delhi are back in action ahead of Diwali. Flower garlands in bright colours are seen at the entrances of the stalls.

bazaar

Dhanteras before Diwali is a busy time for Hindus and shopkeepers with shopping at its peak. This year is no different even with the Corona Pandemic here in Delhi.

bazaar

A roadside stall in Sarojini Nagar market hawks womens' lingerie in New Delhi. Men sell intimate-wear to young girls and women. Fortunately, all all wearing masks.

bazaar

The shopping hordes are back in Sarojini Nagar market in South Delhi! Women, kids and men roam freely, with and without masks, even as announcements ask shoppers to keep a social distance and mask up.

fort

A sneak peek of a former British Army barrack which is now a museum in honour of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and the INA inside the Red Fort.

fort · river

A melange of shots of the architecture of Red Fort, Old Delhi. The Lal Qila features the Rang Mahal, an old step well or baoli, fortifications and palace, with gardens.

fort

The huge abandoned Tughlakabad fort made of stones stands adjacent to the Mehrauli-Badarpur and a lesser-known fort in New Delhi.

highway · monsoon

Auto rickshaws or three-wheelers, sedans, regular small cars, MUV's and bikers all try and negotiate the deep pools formed below the flyovers of Delhi, along the main Ring Road.

This young calf has just been born, and can barely stand up straight, all wobbly and unsure if itself and the bright white world around it! Coming out of the darkness of the mother's womb, this is a frightening world of colour and movement,…

school · bus

A large group of pink attired medical students leave Safdarjung Hospital and board a bus outside on the Ring Road, in New Delhi. The cacophony of traffic noises and the incessant honking of horns is deafening.

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Pigeons by the hundreds and a one crow: grain scattered for pigeons on Delhi road, despite pigeons being a nuisance and even technically vermin as they populate home ledges and can spread disease through their droppings.

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A duo of hijra, kinner or transvestite individuals do business by soliciting on the streets of Delhi, at a prominent traffic crossing, catching hold of motorists as they wait at the red light.

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We call Indian transvestites as Kinnar and they prefer that too. The older and more derogatory term for them was hijras. This kinnar emerges from the Mayapuri Metro Station.

A bel tree can be a lovely sight in summer with its yellowing round hard fruit on the branches, as seen against the green backdrop in the spring-summer time for this tree.

A three week delay and the monsoons are here (and no, they were no two weeks early, as predicted by the incompetent weather folks!), and everything green and brown gets drenched and turns darker green and darker brown! Puddles and pools eru…

monsoon · farmland

Cars, ambulances, two wheelers, CNG low-floor buses, three-wheeler auto rickshaw tuk-tuks and sundry other vehicle types power through accumulated monsoon rain water near AIIMS flyover underpass in South Delhi.

highway · monsoon

A row of green and yellow auto rickshaw three-wheeler tuk-tuks make their way through flooded roads in Delhi.

livestock · highway

People and cows mix happily or inevitably at least on the roads of New Delhi! A group of cows feed off grain dropped for pigeons, and even scavenge for waste and plastics on the roads.

livestock

Is the consumption of garbage and trash by cows a solution for town planning and garbage disposal, or is this just an unhappy coincidence? Stray cattle are as much of an urban nuisance as garbage disposed off along the streets of New Delhi…