Delhi

Anupama Dayal, a leading Indian designer, shows us some of her best dresses at an earlier edition of LIFW or Lakme India Fashion Week in New Delhi, circa 2002 or so...

ceremony · festival

Idols being prepared in full gusto for the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations in Delhi. It is a grand festival for most most parts of North and East India, but the most fanatically followed in West Bengal.

ceremony · festival

Devotee prays to Goddess Durga at a Durga Puja pandal in CR Park in Delhi. Durga Puja also referred to as Durgotsava or Sharadotsav is an annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga.

ceremony · festival

Devotees gather together to say good bye to Goddess Durga. Its time for immersion. Durga Puja is widely celebrated in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Tripura and West Bengal, where it is a five-day annual holiday.

ceremony

After the ban on idol immersion in the Yamuna and other rivers, makeshift ponds were created with plastic sheeting around the city so that the idols could be immersed in them and not cause lead, mercury and other forms of water poisoning in…

hills · school

Hari Dang says "Well I am delighted that we are meeting in my home ground, the Delhi Ridge, where it all began when I was young before the second World war and after 32-years of being a schoolmaster and a headmaster I went back to my roots…

politics

To eradicate illiteracy and celebrate acceptability of education, Delhi based NGO SMILE organised an event titled 'Scholar 2001-2002'. On this occasion, Union Minister of State for commerce and industry Mr.

temple · architecture

Muslims gathered in and around the grand Jama Masjid for Eid celebration on the last day of Ramadan. The Masjid-i Jahān-Numā, commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi, is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India.

festival · politics

'Allah Hoo' by Nizami Brothers at the Delhi International Arts Festival. Delhi International Arts Festival India’s ‘Signature Festival’ is the longest multi arts, multi venue cultural festival.

highway

Jam-packed Ring Road in South Delhi during the New Year with hundreds of vehicles queued up.

festival · village

Saras event Indian International Trade Fair in Hall number 7 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Over 7,000 companies from India and abroad participated in the event.

village · crafts

A woman made the handicraft at Saras 2002 set up by rural development ministry at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. She made the shapes on the cloth with pencil and cuts the cloth. She made the soft toys.

politics

Delhi city illuminates at night as seen from air... Delhi also known as the National Capital Territory of India is a metropolitan region in India.

highway

An assortment of typically Delhi vehicles moves along the Ring Road - motorcycles, scooters, auto rickshaws, Maruti vans and cars, three-wheeled tempos, CNG red buses of the DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation), a Mahindra SUV 500 and more...

highway

Is this the best way to spend time while idling at Delhi's red lights? Western models of retail and commerce could take a lesson from the mobile army that sells at traffic lights and junctions with slow traffic...

bazaar · politics

Women outside Sarojini market going for summer shopping. A lady scratching her stomach. An embarrassing moment caught on the camera. Sarojini market of Delhi, is filled with women from every cast, community and religion.

bazaar

Not just stolen goods, even animals are openly sold in Delhi's Chor Bazaar. It seems that no rules apply here at all.

bazaar

The Indian National Army Market, popularly known as INA Market, is known as the food bazaar of Delhi. Fresh seafood, meat, spices, vegetables, fruits - if you don't get it anywhere else, you get it at this market.

bazaar · highway

Do we recognise Sarojini Nagar Market without the bustle of trade and commerce in one of Delhi's largest flea markets? The makeshift tents and the store goods all neatly packed and wrapped with heavy-duty tarpaulin.

livestock

At the Maharishi Dayanand Gaushala in Delhi, milk is retailed to consumers, after being strained into a large container to avoid solid particles admixing with the milk.

See the pollen sacs full of pollen granules as these are brought in like aircraft engines on each wing! An unidentified Stingless Bee or Meliponini colony is busy buzzing in and out of the little hollow opening inside a tree trunk.