Delhi

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On a rainy monsoony day in New Delhi city, a crow brood is raised in a nest high above the Ring Road.

birds · flowers

Fairly common and spectacular with its multiple shades of green is the Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri).

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On a rainy monsoony day in New Delhi city, a crow brood is raised in a nest high above the Ring Road.

birds · wildlife

It is that time of the year as spring arrives with its beauty and bounty and birds are back to their favourite trees for nesting. We filmed a sequence at a Casuarina trunk at our Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

birds · flowers

What lovely sharp colour contrasts as the male electric blue iridescent Purple Sunbird visits orange Flame of the Forest or dhak / Tesu / teshu / palas / palash flowers at the Wilderness Orchard in the ephemeral New Delhi spring.Spring is d…

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.

monsoon · wildlife

In the hollow created by a broken tree trunk, a pair of Magpie Robins have cleverly decided to nest.

Five cute little Magpie Robin chicks were hatched and fledged from a nest in a guava tree at our Orchard in Delhi. They wait around on the branches of a low shrub, and await their next meal.

wildlife · birds

Fixing spider's egg sacks and cocoons into its nest, this White-eye settles in to her hammock nest, makes herself cosy and sets about laying her eggs, in a hammock nest made between two twigs, in an Oriole like fashion...

wildlife · birds

Shikra is a small raptor or bird of prey, with yellow eyes and light brown bands on its chest - Accipiter badius! The juvenile Shikra almost looks like an adult in size but it still has time to be as efficient a predator as an adult.

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Fully fledged, Crow parents feed into red gape of young chick who has left the nest, still needs feed What makes the House Crow so splendiferous that it is known as Corvus splendens? It is a smart bird all right, and this couple have discov…

Mulayam Singh Yadav speaks at the Border music release with JP Dutta, of the film now infamous due to the fire incident at Uphaar cinema in New Delhi. What the relevance of having him speak is we cannot grasp...

music

I met him many years ago in Delhi, found Gulshan Kumar to be a very affectionate and warm person. He had a very intelligent approach to his work and business, as I observed in those days.

industry

Sewage diving in the Indian summer heat. Talk of an extreme of human rights violation for these poor men... First they heave off the cement cover to the sewage drain below.

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The Crow sits on a nest of eggs but when it gets up, two chicks have hatched. So dainty and delicate are their new born necks! The mother regurgitates food from her throat to feed the chicks.

river

See this video of a drain so choked with plastic and waste that even the foul sewage that is supposed to flow in it cannot flow, and you realize that "India - we have a problem on our hands, and it ain't the corona virus!" Think Harappa.

temple · architecture

illuminated at night, the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib is an important Sikh religious temple in Delhi. Cheery lights adorn the gurudwara's roof-top. Sikh pilgrims throng the holy pond and the gurudwara premises on Gurpurab day.

Golden statue of Param Vir Chakra awardee Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon being displayed at the Indian Air Force Museum in Delhi. Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, PVC was an officer of the Indian Air Force.

crafts

Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi launching a special edition of Chaha Chaudhary comic book in collaboration with the the actor's upcoming film "Mr X" at the Grehlakshmi Magazine's seventh annual kitty party in Delhi.

music · school

Students and dancers of Neemarana Musical Foundation rehearsing for 10th anniversary Gala concert which is on December 6th, 2014, in New Delhi at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium where they will get the opportunity of performing on a major stage, a…

festival · temple

The 35th Rath Yatra Utsav of Lord Sree Jagannath celebrated in Delhi at Hauz Khas organized by Sree Neelachala Seva Sangha today on 10-07-2013 at a grand scale.

wildlife · birds

Indian Black Ibis was never a city bird, but they have started to proliferate in Delhi and have become comfortable in city environments, being adaptable birds.