Delhi

highway · livestock

The air hangs heavy with particulate matter and air pollution on a busy polluted Delhi road on a cold smoggy wintery morning. Cows run rampage and tractors carrying water run to parched parts of the city on crowded city roads.

wildlife · birds

Crow and Magpie family bird the Rufous or Common Tree Pie croaks out its call while sitting on a Neem tree in Delhi, at the Wilderness Orchard. Meanwhile, a Tailor Bird investigates insectds while sitting on a lemon shrub.

wildlife · birds

Darzi chidiya: Common Tailor Bird seen at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi is a universally known bird The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...

wildlife · birds

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…

Mcdonald's in Old Delhi: Cycle rickshaws, tuk-tuks, Chicken burgers and fries go hand in hand in the New India.

lake

Like giraffes evolved long necks, stilts evolved long legs! Black winged Stilt in a Delhi wetland.

livestock

What a group of wild, feral and domestic animals that come together to be fed by a few car borne citizens who stop by every once in a while...

Shatrughan Sinha giving a speech at IFTDA Award function: "I came straight from the airport, coming from Delhi. There are so many awards functions today. Some have vested interests. Lobbying.

farmland

Durgesh mali from Rae Bareli /Bareilly, a large township-city in Uttar Pradesh, harvests langda mangoes from a tree in Delhi orchard, using a laggi picker which is essentially a net with a blade cutter at one end set at the tip of a long ba…

ceremony

Mourning on Muharram near Kashmiri Gate Old Delhi: How do they gt thir rhythm and percussion so right? Not quite with a purely musical intent, but chest thumping of Muharram-mourning Shia of India does create a most percussive rhythm that a…

ceremony

A recitation from the holy book followed by mass mourning. Not quite with a purely musical intent, but chest thumping of Muharram-mourning Shia of India does create a most percussive rhythm that appeals to our baser fondness of beats and pe…

Not quite with a purely musical intent as Bobby McFerrin, but the chest thumping of the Muharram-mourning Shia of India does create a most percussive rhythm that appeals to our baser fondness of beats and percussive rhythm as human beings.

farmland · birds

Red whiskered Bulbul at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, with cheery red and white cheek patches, and a jaunty crest atop its head.

monsoon · bazaar

Local people prepare a bunded embankment of sand bags to prevent the ingres of monsoon flood waters from the Jamna nadi into the Monastery Market and Tibetan Colony in Kashmiri Gate as Old Delhi gets flooded by the rising Yamuna river.

bus · village

Bhainsas hang out at a bus shelter in Delhi city! This cool gang of water buffalos have decided to take up temporary residence at a bus stop shelter in India's capital city...

street food

Chicken Tikka being made and sold during Bakr Eid near Jama Masjid in Old Delhi: quite the street food hub of north India! On long skewers are prepared juicy chunks of chicken with masalas and seasoning added aplenty.

Mangoes are plucked from our trees in June, at the beginning of the monsoon season, when the fruit has turned suitably plump with the first few showers. Koel calls rent the air.

flowers · birds

A male deep shiny iridescent blue Sunbird first investigates insects on Neem tree and then on Hamelia patens' red flowers, chirruping away all the while, in Delhi's summer heat, it's tiny yellow feather patch showing prominently on its shou…

flowers · birds

Rose-ringed Parakeet all green against orange blooms of Flame-of-the-Forest or Dhak tree in spring-time bloom in Delhi...

birds

Sunbird female sits stop her eggs in camouflaged nest with beak open, in sweltering Delhi summer heat A female Purple Sunbird peers out of her camouflaged pendulous nest which looks like a sack of dried leaves, as she sits and incubates her…

birds · farmland

A Coppersmith and Green Barbet pair each breeding inside a Jacaranda tree trunk in April 2023, at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

livestock · highway

When domestic animals comprise of 40% of the world's animal mass, cows would represent a large fraction of that! This bull searches a garbage dump for waste, and ends up eating more plastic than food.

Neola love: A Mongoose pair have a summer-time breeding season rendezvous, to increase their kind in the warmth of a Delhi summer day.