Delhi

forest

A Magpie Robin male can be seen at the entrance to its nest hole. This Magpie Robin pair breeds in a dried up old Silver Oak tree in Delhi and the songster couple successfully bring up their brood in this tree hollow, despite the heat, expo…

wildlife · birds

This Bee-eater prefers vertical sand banks for nesting but has settled for this modest mud pile for a semi horizontal nest hole, as it gets ample insect food at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

lake · wildlife

This Jalmurghi cautiously approaches its nest and then comes in to incubate This waterhen comfortably and cautiously pads on to its nest in tall water grasses, within a wetland.

This wild Spotbill duck visits this swimming pool every day for its constitutional swim, while living in the big bad city.

music

Air Force airmen of India can play the tabla like pros! Hear this medley band performing a jugalbandi fusion at India Gate in New Delhi.

An expert mechanic cum electricals expert does his magic on a tired old sewage water pump which had a seizure in the monsoon rains and needs a new lease of life! A three phase 5 KVA Kirloskar underground sewage tank motor pump gets repaired…

highway · monsoon

A thela-wallah pushes his cart across a busy road, dodging traffic. A tricycle rickshaw driver carries heavy load in monsoon Delhi : Odd Jobs on a rainy day. A cyclist carries a large water tank to its destination, on his cycle rickshaw.

industry

Open sewage drains are cleaned by hand, and by physically entering the clogged drains. What dignity of labour does India accord to these drain cleaners in Delhi? Despite talk of reforms, the abuse continues, sadly...

Sikander Mizra Changezi, librarian and secretary of Delhi Youth Welfare Association showing an era old poetry book by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at Hazrat Shah Waliullah Public Library.

dance

Sikkim puts on a dance display at Republic Day 2019, on 26 01 19 Sikkim puts on dance display at Republic Day 2019, on 26th January, followed by a Quit India Movement tableau from Maharashtra.

music · ceremony

Taking measured steps as they tread forward in a fantastically coordinated fashion, all the while playing their band instruments in formation, and coordinating eye, ear and mouth, must make this a very complicated task of competence and coo…

bazaar

Not only is Diwali a festival when you find decor items everywhere around the market but also one can find good Sale on almost every shop.

ceremony · river

Women from Bihar and the Bhojpuri belt called Purvanchal in north India celebrate Chhat Puja, with milk, coconut and banana offerings to the Sun god.

politics · ceremony

in ceremony of BJP ministers at President's House in New Delhi. The new cabinet members were : Shatrughan Sinha, Sahib Singh Verma, Jana Krishnamurthy, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil.

A thematic display of rare stamps at an exhibition in Delhi. The stamps are sorted according to categories and are on display. A number of commemorative stamps of Indians artists and heritage, singers can be seen here.

Shading themselves from the summer sun, these Delhi women have clearly returned from a shopping spree. Desmond Morris-esque woman-watching on Delhi's streets: Women carry umbrellas and big shopping bags

architecture · wildlife

Ironically, hundreds of Raptors fly high above a residential building rather inaptly named 'French Arcade', overlooking Asia's largest trash mountain below.

wildlife · birds

A female Oriental Pied Hornbill adopts a Grey Hornbill nest and chicks as her own in New Delhi city's Lodhi Gardens, and foster feeds them on a unilateral basis, in addition to the Grey Hornbill pair feeding their own chicks.

birds · wildlife

Red-vented Bulbul incubates eggs on its nest at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi

crafts · festival

Artisans in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, are making clay idols of Goddess Durga ahead of Durga Puja. Unfinished figures with multiple arms and lion mounts take shape over bamboo and straw frameworks.

bazaar

Harpal Watch Co., located at shop number 68 in Sarojini Nagar Market, Delhi, displays a range of watches and clocks for customers.

music

The Royal Air Force Band performs at India Gate in New Delhi as the setting sun illuminates the sky. Musicians in white jackets and bow ties sit in rows behind blue music stands displaying the Royal Air Force crest.