Delhi

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.

flowers · farmland

A plum tree flowers profusely at the Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens in Delhi, in the ephemeral spring-time of north India! Plum blossom in Delhi? Tis so, with this profusely flowering aloo bukhara tree! Delicate white blooms will even…

NSC commando keeping an eye on Delhi for security reasons during R day. He sees through binocular and checks all the security arrangements.

flowers · farmland

This lovely species of foreign kachnar sports edible flowers and is currently blooming fabulously at the wildfilmsindia orchard in Delhi.

music

Bhupen Hazarika singing in Nagamese language in Delhi Bhupen Hazarika singing in his magical voice in Nagamese language, in Delhi: Manuhhe manuhor babe Bhupen Hazarika singing in Nagamese language in Delhi

wildlife · bazaar

In the narrow lanes of Dera Mandi village in South Delhi, an elephant gets walked on farmhouse roads of South Delhi daily by its keeper.

A balcony ticket was Rs. 75 and a rear stall seat was for Rs. 50, at the time! The Mummy is showing in addition to Mast.

highway · wildlife

NDMC truck with in-built crane and platform as seen in Sarojini Nagar, used for cutting tree branches and replacing light bulbs, as used by the New Delhi Municipal Committee.