Delhi

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.

village

Straight out of the pages of an Indian history book, see this period enactment of Qutubuddin Aibak, the architect of the Qutub Minar, walking in Hauz Khas village.

temple · architecture

Chapati making machine creates rotis en masse for the masses at a Delhi gurudwara's langar! Masses of sticky wheat flour or atta wet with water enter the roti making machine and come out as flattened chapatis! Buckets of atta are introduced…

farmland

Wintery view of Delhi due to winter air pollution from crop burning and vehicular exhaust pollution. People of Delhi are covering their nose to protect themselves from harmful air.

ceremony

With a long tikka running down from my maang middle hair parting and all the way down her nose, this Purvanchali women devotee performs Chhath Puja in Delhi, all with lengthy nose tikkas / tika.

With a cloth mask on, the VP Logistics delivery partner of Amazon delivers packages to a client in Delhi, after the lockdown eases a tad. Online businesses will benefit from the Corona wave, it seems...

festival · politics

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh sets aflame the effigy of 'Corruption' during Dussehra celebration at Luv-Kush Ramlila in Ramlila Maidan Delhi.

aerial · bazaar

Rome has the Colosseum, Delhi has Ansal Plaza decorated for the Momo Royals of Momo Festival. An aerial view of the amphitheatre like shopping complex in Khelgaon.

highway · aerial

See the largest hospital in Asia, from the air! Delhi aerial view of AIIMS - the largest hospital in Asia: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Safdarjung, Ring Road, South Extension, Kidwai Nagar and Yusuf Sarai Aerial journey of capit…

aerial · architecture

Spanking new hotel buildings crop up in a low-rise landscape on the outskirts of New Delhi city.

festival · ceremony

The idol is suitably swung in ceremonial style and taken out for the Rath Yatra at Jagannath Temple in Hauz Khas, New Delhi.