Delhi

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Trucks with huge cement mixers, lorry trucks move among public and private transport vehicles in a busy stretch towards the Ring Road flyover. The road looks congested with non stop flow of vehicles.

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What variegated colour this traffic jam features! From oranges and yellows, to greens, blues, whites and pinks...

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The festive season in the national capital is bringing out shoppers from homes. With no proper metro rail services, the residents are dependent on private vehicles, autorickshaws, cabs, public transport buses which is contributing to the al…

highway · fort

A maddening rush of vehicles near the Red Fort ahead of Diwali as residents come out for shopping and the festive activities like the Corona outbreak never happened.

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Delhi by dusk! A timelapse and real time scene at Yusuf Sarai on Dhanteras before Diwali. As the evening wanes into the night, the flow of traffic is packed and vehicles are struggling to squeeze past other vehicles.

highway · architecture

The newly inaugurated vertical tower parking in New Delhi stands near the highway with a promise of space-friendly parking.

highway · bazaar

Traffic and shoppers seem to be back to pre-Covid numbers when you look at the traffic along this stretch of the Yusuf Sarai market road - welding and construction ramp up (you can hear the sounds) and shoppers abound as they stop and shop…

highway · monsoon

Two of the women are busy smoking in the usual Indian way, not holding the cigarette or bidi between the first two fingers but between the circle of the closed thumb and their palms, smoking through the hand tunnel that this creates! This s…

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This homeless family sits under a flyover near Sarojini Nagar in New Delhi, and lead a happy life despite poverty and deprivation.

architecture · fort

Totally oblivious of the world going by, the strange world around us, and fast asleep is what these poor people are, on barely a foot wide path, inside an ancient bridge leading to the Red Fort in Old Delhi.

Poor family living on the streets of New Delhi city: India's poverty goes hand in hand with extreme wealth and the two face each other incongruously.

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What a mixture of traffic we have in New Delhi! Traffic along the Ring Road and comprise of everything from cement mixer trucks to cyclists, pedestrians, auto rickshaws and even Ferrari sports cars and cabriolets.

highway · river

Traffic at Bhikaji Cama Place and along the Ring road and Africa Avenue in New Delhi mostly comprises of local commuters and business goers, as well as embassy, diplomatic enclave and airport bound cars, and Vasant Kunj or Vasant Vihar boun…

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bazaar

Amid Covid Pandemic Delhi prepares to celebrate Dhanteras and market places are least prepared for the onslaught of shoppers. Social distancing at the minimum with wares displayed outside the shops.

bazaar

Watch how the Indian middle class shops for lingerie in New Delhi city, at a women's under garments shop in Sarojini Nagar Market...

fort

A huge abandoned fort made of stones stands adjacent to the Mehrauli-Badarpur and a lesser-known fort in New Delhi.

birds

See the fantastic aerial swooping and diving maneuvers of this Little Green Bee-eater, a pair of Wire-tailed Swallows and a Kotwal or Black Drongo, at a water body at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

farmland · lake

These cute furry black balls of softness scamper around confidently in their pond habitat. The White-breasted Waterhen has birthed these chicks after their eggs just hatched in the Delhi summer, in their nest that was made among water plan…

farmland

The wild form of the Mulberry tends to have black and red fruit admixed, whereas the hybrid one either has green-yellow long droops of fruit or reddish-black ones, of a uniform colour.

architecture

These bees have taken a little corner and created a small hive in the sheltered crevice of a building in Delhi. City for bees or no place for bees? Beehive in busy part of Delhi city, in building crevice corner

monsoon · industry

Monsoon woes in New Delhi is back with heavy monsoon showers in August 2020. Rainwater and clogged drains contributing to the flooded street in Prahladpur. It looks like a mini lake on the street.

monsoon

Most parts of Delhi indeed north India have not received rainfall at all, and the duff 10 day early monsoon prediction was a fraud prognostication! Then how come it rained in just a few pockets of New Delhi? The showers look nice and heavy,…