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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,…

highway · wildlife

Roads of New Delhi! A Maruti Gypsy or Suzuki Samuri of the Indian Air Force and a Tata truck of the Indian Army, and a construction or road cleaning crane all negotiate the monsoon flooded roads of Delhi.

highway · sport

If some bratty kid driving his father's sports car came barreling down this road, he would likely not be prepared to encounter a bovine on the road, and his speed would not permit him to decelerate on time, and a familiar story would play o…

livestock · highway

Should bovines be allowed to run free on the roads of New Delhi city? What if one were to rush into oncoming traffic, causing a series of car collisions and itself getting injured or killed in the process? Should there not be rules to rein…

music · school

Delhi based choir group The Capital City Minstrels sings 'Can't Help Falling in Love With You' (cover) of 'Haley Reinhart' during Summer Concert at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Center in Delhi.

The Zafar Mahal in the middle of the modern residential area of Mehrauli in South Delhi is believed to be the last structure built by the Mughals.

fort

India's iconic Lal Qila or the Red Fort as filmed during the Corona Pandemic in 2020. A few visitors since it opened after months of being shut. A view of the Lahori Gate with the National Flag of India flying high on top of the entrance.

monsoon

Palm trees grow in a planted row in New Delhi, near Jantar Mantar in central Delhi's Connaught Place area. Sirens of ambulances and car horns dominate the audio-scape.

railway · architecture

Goods train passing through old Yamuna Bridge (Loha pul) in Delhi, India. Kids can be seen bathing in Yamuna river. One can see the dhobi ghat near the Old Yamuna bridge and construction site of a new bridge along side the old bridge.

Up for quick lunch at a street stall with a couple of Rotis or Flatbread? This cook is preparing Matar Paneer which is a dish of green peas and cottage cheese.

Spread out on a frying pan sitting on a gas stove burner, dosa rice-based batter is evenly spread and then widened into a thinner and wider circle.

highway

A dhaba walla runs his road-side eatery with a tandoor to boot! He prepares rolls of dough and pats them onto the sides of the heated tandoor, to turn into Amritsari naan which is his speciality.

Spice Xpress, Spice Jet, Indigo, Nepal Airlines and Go Air waiting for their take-off at the Indra Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.

bazaar · highway

What a mix of traffic INA Market sees! The usual bazaar crowd coming for meat, fruit, vegetables, provisions or imported food items. Dilli Haat sees a wider crowd visiting for a walk, shopping for handicrafts or eating out.