Delhi

highway · coastline

The NDMC Horticulture department has planted these Cycads along the roads of Delhi, in select round-abouts and along the Ring Road. See the red fruit and seed pods inside the new inflorescence.

architecture · bus

This poor bridge, albeit ancient and supposedly a heritage structure, has been scratched and mutilated by the passage of thousands of buses and trucks over the decades, and the lower part remains heavily damaged, with the upper portion taki…

music · ceremony

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

ceremony · river

Indian devotees pray to the setting sun while standing in an artificial water body during the Chhath festival at the Indian War Memorial, India Gate lawns, in New Delhi, India.

temple · ceremony

After months of being stuck at home, devotees are stepping to their favouite places of worship like this Shani Dham Temple near Palika Bhawan in Delhi.

bazaar · street food

It is heartwarming that people have such positivity in life to step out and enjoy street food at a local vendor but it is also alarming with hundreds cramped in a small space like this scene at Sarojini Market in the middle of a global pand…

bazaar · snow

To hell with the mutant strains of Covid19, as people head out to Sarojini Nagar market to chow on ice creams and fresh fruit juice, in the open. The summer heat of picking up and this February was the warmest in Delhi in the past 15 years!

street food · bazaar

Kachoris are delicious with her dals and other ingredients, but the frying and oils make them rather heavy and unhealthy too. Khasta Kachori being fried and sold at Hunar haat.

highway · street food

Alu Tikki with dahi or curd and saunth made of imli or tamarind sauce being made on a Delhi road-side - yummy street food, even if unhealthy fried in polyunsaturated fats - who cares? Some do.

school

Art exhibition by the students of National Institute of Design at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. A student of National Institute of Design speaks about the exhibition. She says, "We wet promotion by these types of events.

bus · highway

Commuters in New Delhi sit at a bus stop to board a bus at Lodhi Colony. One can see a CNG-electric hybrid bus, autos, cars and other vehicles on the road.These low-floor buses are manufactured by auto major Tata Motors.

bazaar · highway

The Ring Road crosses AIIMS and the INA Market road joins up with it at Medical as the crossing is fondly called by Delhi-ites.

architecture

Fly around Delhi's tallest man-made structure! The Pitampura Metro station and tracks as well as a large outdoor sports stadium can also be seen.

highway

Should one opt to drive out of the house when it is raining heavily in Delhi? Probably not, as you would spend a lot of fuel on idling in heavy traffic.

Blue skies but the foggy layer of air is back in Delhi after two months of complete lockdown. Travel restrictions slowly open and commercial flight services have resumed. Historical monuments and parks are opened for the public.

temple · architecture

Drug stores, few tire shops open up in the morning. Quite a few shutters are down with economic activities at a slow pace because of the Corona Pandemic. Two months of lockdown and economic activities were put on hold.

Months of Corona Lockdown and businesses in the National Capital had been shut down but now it is open. Delhi is slowly crawling back to its former nightlife.

highway · architecture

The need for government housing forced the government's hand to give way to multi storey construction, despite the Lutyen's high-rise ban and other height limitations and restrictions.

bazaar

South Delhi's knock off destination, Sarojini Nagar Market is a favourite any season. We take you for a glimpse of the market area in winter right after a cold shower.

highway

Moti Bagh Ring Road traffic near the gurudwara, in New Delhi, is noisy with a range of car and three-wheeler and even trucks honking, squealing brakes, sounds of the Metro running on the tracks above, human sounds and more...

highway

With police and ambulance sirens blazing, traffic horns and unruly traffic, CP or Connaught Place seems to have become a crowded mess, with poor pedestrian tracks and an old world shopping experience that may well have been superceded by th…

highway · architecture

The new phalanx of government buildings in New Kidwai Nagar seem to go against the Delhi height restrictions or then the rules of Lutyens' Delhi, but do rules even apply to the GOI? Was the massive steel and iron structure on Barapullah jus…