Delhi

temple · ceremony

Shri Vinayaka Mandir in New Delhi on the day of MahaShivratri 2022. See the carved mural-like array of gods and goddesses above the temple portals.

Juice Shop mausambi line-up in India. We find art and symmetry in everyday life, even in these sweet limes lined up for juicing at a roadside pineapple and pomegranate fruit juice stall in Delhi.

flowers

New Delhi Municipal Council has gone shopping with a tender that was satisfied by a Dutch bulb supplier such as Derck Schipper.

highway

Rain basera shelter homes on roadsides in Delhi. When the rural unemployed move to Indian urban centers, they become the urban poor, and with water, shelter, food and employment issues, their lives become that much worse.

hills · farmland

Teetar bite at grass leaves and play around in an open grassland environment: Partridge at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi First year Grey Partridge or Safed Titar chicks sit under gular tree with Ficus glomerata figs dropped around them.

monsoon

It makes sense to advertise on an auto rickshaw in India, as these vehicles are almost always running on the roads, and are the most frequently seen taxi format. So an advertisement on the body canvas will go a long way, literally.

monsoon · farmland

Did you know that millipedes disband and take different routes when confronted by bigger predators! See the mass locomotion of monsoon worms at our Delhi Orchard! You could call them creepy-crawlies or just accept them as a normal and natur…

highway · politics

Massive 10 foot long metal pipes being introduced into the newly dug bore in the ground, in order to line the walls. The pipe is first welded in place with the next pipe, before being sent down deep into the ground.

sport

Anand Mahindra can also be seen, with his wife Anuradha (Devidayal) Mahindra. Nita Ambani with her daughter Isha Ambani at a polo match in Delhi: "My daughter is waiting.

highway · industry

The Border Road Organisation or BRO for the first time presents its tableau on Rajpath during the 72nd Republic Day in New Delhi. The tableau with models of construction workers, heavy machinery.

flowers · music

While Koels call out in the summer heat, this reptile goes about its task without any concerns in the world, confident in its hunting ability.

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...

bus

Commuters are flouting social distancing norms in Delhi outside AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi. A crowded bus stand with commuters boarding public transport and autos.

flowers

West Delhi is a bustling metropolis in its own right, but this video shows otherwise! During the infamous Corona lockdown of 2020, such crowded localities as Rajouri Garden and Paschim Vihar turned into ghost towns, with barely a soul or a…

highway

A Covid19 victim being taken on their last journey in the Delhi NCR, in a truck, after Oxygen ran out at the hospital, and the fight was lost to the Chinese created virus.

India is at a pain point where there is not enough oxygen or ICU beds for Covid patients, not enough medicines, not even enough wood for funeral pyres. Such is our sad state of affairs.

politics

At the best of times, the Make in India vaccines may not be everything they were cracked out to be.

highway

People are randomly stopped as get off a Metro tube station in New Delhi, and offered Covid19 spot testing for free.

industry · wildlife

A Grey Partridge on an Aravalli native tree. Ranthambhor National Park and Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, Mahavir Vanasthali garden in Delhi and Aravalli stone mining: Archival footage from 1990's.

flowers

These bunches of Rhynchostylis retusa are commonly known as the Foxtail orchid. You can see them flowering in the open at our Wilderness Orchard botanical garden in South Delhi.

Delhi police commando Chiewelou Thele shows us some police techniques at India Gate holding a fusil. Commando Thele is from the state of Nagaland. She was selected as the ‘Delhi Police Poster Girl’ for the first time in history.

A roadside barber gives a massage to a customer near Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi. In a typical Indian barber shop it is not uncommon to find customers who like to end their haircut with a massage.

World Chess Championship in New Delhi. In the quarter-final of the championship Indian chess player, Vishwanathan Anand competes with current World Champion Russia's Alexander Khalifman.