Delhi

Social distancing is coming down, almost being forgotten! Life goes on as normal and Covid19 sickness and death statistics meanwhile skyrocket across India. Fruit sellers ply their trade, auto-wallahs get back to the grind.

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As India celebrates its 74th Independence Day on the 15th of August, 2020, the streets of New Delhi is swarming with vendors selling the national flag.

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Green Park is steadily climbing back to its normal pace after two months of complete lockdown due to the Coronavirus outbreak (not that things are better!). See the gurudwara on the main Yusuf Sarai road.

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Delhi is back in action and Sarojini Nagar Market is flooded like before. Corona has got nothing on the shoppers of Delhi's biggest flea market.

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Life on the sidewalks of the National capital of India in a rarely seen encounter. A family prepares chicken for cooking and its purely raw and uncut version. Skin the chicken, cut it into pieces and straight into the cooking pot.

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The central esplanade where the Beating of the Retreat ceremony takes place, with Rashtrapati Bhavan as seen in 4K from Rajpath, with South and North block Defense Ministry offices and traffic passing by...

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Brown water wells up from below the flyover. Chocolate milk shake, anyone? Cars and three-wheeler auto rickshaws plough through deep water as they approach the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS or Medical Flyover going towards I…

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A flyover being painting at Nauroji Nagar along Delhi's Ring Road: Cement blocks being coloured to bring them to life: "Take Make Restore" seems to be the motto / credo. An ambulance passes by with its siren blaring.

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The familiar rolled at the edges red cap is a dead giveaway that this man is a Kaan maliye or ear cleaner. He plies the roads of Indian towns and cities, hoping to find customers who need to get ear wax cleaned from their outer ear drums.

dance · music

Drummers from Manipur drum up a percussive storm at the Delhi Gymkhana Club in New Delhi! A blend of the graceful Manipuri Dance or the Maibi Dance with the acrobatic Drum Dance or Pung Cholom originating from the state of Manipur at the No…

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.