Delhi

flowers

New Delhi Municipal Council has gone shopping with a tender that was satisfied by a Dutch bulb supplier such as Derck Schipper.

highway · industry

There is a little Ram mandir along the main road that leads from Safdarjung Enclave and IIT towards Bhikaji Cama Place and the diplomatic enclave area.

Imagine the sight of the Indian Army's battle tanks rolling down the streets of New Delhi? Certainly not Tiananmen Square, but the good old fashioned Indian Republic Day display of military and cultural pageantry, before the regular Indian.

The sound of ambulances on Delhi's roads have never been more pronounced. Each siren ring reminds one of our current condition and the fragility of this second wave Covid recovery.

politics

The Prime Minister of India arrives on Rajpath for the 72nd Republic Day celebrations of the country in a Range Rover Motorcade. The Prime Minister is received by the Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh.

railway

At New Delhi Railway Station, a Covid relief team distributes sanitized free food to passengers who are arriving or departing from Delhi. Beggars and poor are also able to partake of the cooked clean hygienic food.

Dil Ki Police policemen use infra red thermometers to check the temperatures of arriving passengers and also provide hand sanitizer to those needing the same, as part of precautions for those coming in to Delhi from New Delhi Railway Statio…

bus · highway

Many of you are wondering what it's like to step out after two months of locking ourselves home due to the Corona Pandemic.

The thumbnail and title are not misleading you. This is filmed at a barbershop or men's haircutting salon in New Delhi. In India, men go to barbershops for haircuts and shaves.

temple

Lockdown 5.0 and following government directives the Jagannath Temple in New Delhi is all set to open up with new rules of physical distancing and use of hand sanitisers.

architecture

At a leading Corona testing facility in New Delhi, there appears to be little regard to Covid19 rules with bio-medical and nuclear/chemical waste from bio-technology testing being littered casually around a residential building in India.

politics

Are the 'Make in india' Covid19 vaccines really effective? Going by the number of double dose people who have died, this brings the entire vaccine programme into doubt.

highway

These bulk bottles of alcohol-based sanitizer being sold on a roadside in New Delhi make one wonder as to whether they are genuinely reliable and usable products, or just one of the many road-side vended items made in local factories with d…

highway · wildlife

Did you know that we live in the 'City of Rats'? Yes, that is New Delhi, and Naoroji Nagar and the Ring Road are rat central with a massive rat population underground! The entire city is criss-crossed with chuha networks going from one hous…

Azur Helico flew us from Cannes - Mandelieu airport to Nice in their lovely Airbus AS350 only to show us our Qatar Airways flight landing on the tarmac, as soon as we landed as well.

The farmers' agitation from 2020 to 2021, at the Delhi border. See farmers cook in their huge makeshift kitchens on the roadside, along the Singhu border in Delhi and near Ghaziabad.

politics

Mr. Michel Camdessus the executive director of the International Monetary Funds seem bullish about the economic reforms of the country's process and the future growth process of India's economy. On his visit, Mr.

farmland

Rupin Dang harvests a daily dose of citrus, among them oranges, kinnow / kinnu, malta and red blood grapefruit at the Wilderness Orchard in South Delhi.

Jantar Mantar in Delhi is one of the five observatories built in 1724 by the Maharaja of Jaipur - Sawai Jai Singh II for the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

industry · highway

Archival footage of a flyover construction site in Delhi. Workers wearing caps and put clothes on their heads to prevent heat waves in summers. Man carries load on his head.

The Corona Pandemic cases may rise but Delhi seems normal with non-stop movement of vehicles on the streets. The afternoon is no different from the morning and evening rush hour.

Vehicles drive-in for a quick fill of CNG at a fueling booth in South Delhi. Vehicles in Delhi seem to be using more CNG to run their cars due to its price which is more affordable as compared to other fossil fuels.

flowers · bazaar

Wholesale flower sellers do brisk business at the Ghazipur flower market, Delhi's largest. They sell bori fulls of rose and marigold (gaindha) patels as well as whole flowers and malas or garlands of gaindha.