Delhi

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At a road-side eatery in New Delhi, a massive pot of rice is prepared on the pavement, in time for lunch for its patrons! See the starchiness on the surface of the boiling water! The pot is so heavy with water and rice in it that two people…

birds · flowers

A garden-orchard in Delhi springs forth with summer-time activity. Mustard and broccoli, ripens in the fields, Green Bee-eaters look out for prey for look out points, Apis dorsata bees tend to their huge hive on the peepul tree, a Shikra p…

birds · wildlife

Mynas are supposed to nest in tree hollows and rock wall holes, but here is a rare exception where they have built a nest on a tree! A Common Myna sits on the branch of a Peepal tree near its nest. The bird is filmed preening its feathers.

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A pair of sleepy and fluffy juvenile Red-vented Bulbul chicks sit on a small branch waiting for their mother to feed them. They are spotted in the tree outside the WildfilmsIndia office in the middle of New Delhi.

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A male House Crow stomps around on its nesting branch, as seen in slow motion, along with its surviving grown-up chick along the Ring Road in New Delhi.

birds · wildlife

These aggressive birds are pushing the safety limits when they decided to perch on the two electric cables with no safety coating. The loud urban birds are seen with no social distancing during sunset.

This is not a rare sight with hundreds of feral pigeons gathered together at a feeding station near the streets in Delhi.

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Red-whiskered Bulbuls scout for prey from a barren treetop at our office complex. These two are joined by a couple of Red-vented bulbuls which are very common on trees in urban areas.

wildlife · birds

Hordes of Rosy Pastors flock through Delhi in the early summer, as they head north on their migration.

birds · forest

A female 'Seven Sisters Jungle Babbler, also known as Sat bhai dutifully sits on its clutch of turquoise blue eggs on an orange tree in Delhi, to incubate them in the May summer sun.

This kabootar never descends to the ground, and lives out its life making strong flights from one tree to another, and gorging on Ficus and other fruit and berries up in the branches of trees here in our city of New Delhi.

Safed Teetar or Grey Partridge goes for an evening walk, walking straight and tall with great confidence, at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. Safed Teetar or Grey Partridge goes for an evening walk, walking straight and tall

wildlife · birds

Darzi Chidiya or Tailor Bird stitches together its leaf nest during summer in a Delhi garden, within the leaves of a guava or amrud tree. A female Tailor Bird brings in a sprig of grass seeds to line her nest with.

Chinook American-made helicopter gun-ships, Russian Mi8 and Mi17 helicopters and Sarang Indian-made choppers spray tricolor coloured fumes as they fly over Delhi on Republic Day.

dance · festival

Mizoram folk dance at North-eastern Festival at Delhi Gymkhana Club in New Delhi. We are told that the Cheraw dance dates to the First century AD, while the Mizos were still in a Chinese province.

Is this progressive modern India on display? Then why does this man have to undertake such a degrading task when better systems ought to have been put in place by the PWD and MCD in New Delhi city? Is it fair that he is diving deep into hum…

flowers

A Girgit or 'Bloodsucker' Garden Lizard in a New Delhi Orchard displays its ridge of pink dorsal spines, and the yellow spot near its cheek. The common girgit of an Indian garden! Not a bloodsucker at all, though...

monsoon

Delivery boys work in the rain in Chhatarpur Delhi: Zepto Instamart, Swiggy and Blinkit drivers go through inhuman monsoon conditions wearing rain coats and driving through sewage and rain water clogged roads in Delhi's unprpared monsoon se…

Sanjay Suri: "I remember shooting with her in New Delhi for a brochure ad. Sanjay Suri says Sushmita Sen was a very confident and an intelligent lady even before

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farmland

These Pariah Kites have a field day in locked-down Delhi, but their food sources are also fewer, as less people on the roads means less food for them.