Delhi

festival

People buying sweets during the Diwali festival from Evergreen Sweets House Green Park New Delhi massive crowd at Evergreen Sweet House for buying sweets and namkeens like Motichur Laddoo, Besan Laddoo, Angoori Petha, Lal Peda, Pemet, Kali…

river

What use is India's GDP when our fishermen have to fish in filthy polluted detergent-ridden waters in Delhi? What a tragedy that someone will actually eat these polluted water fish that have somehow survived the oxygen-deprived waters of a…

highway

With a Chief Minister sitting in jail, New Delhi is the new wild west unadministered city - the capital of India without a leader! Civic authorities work with impunity with a mind of their own, roads are dug up, utilities installed without…

industry

The carpenter is making a chair back part with the help of a drill machine, and some workers putting fevicol on the board to fix the ply, here you can see the carpenter is giving a smooth finish and shape to the wood with a grinder machine,…

river · ceremony

Tens of thousands of Purvanchalis crowd the Yamune river bank in Delhi, evem as detergent freely flows down the river in a frothy mass of water pollution, even as the believers pray to the Sun god on the occasion of Chhat puja, as seen aeri…

monsoon · farmland

Sheltering from the monsoon rains, this male peafowl climbs atop a Peepul tree at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi, as it also celebrates the arrival of the monsoon season. Note its long tail train and its loud call from the tree!

festival · temple

45th Rath Yatra Festival was held at the main Jagannath Temple of the National capital region at Hauz Khas Village in New Delhi amidst much fanfare and spiritual fervour.

birds · farmland

Fancy new name Black rumped Flameback for good old Golden-backed Woodpecker pecking away at wood around its nest hole on a tree trunk at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

politics · highway

Congress party headquarters office looks all forlorn in New Delhi, on the day of election-time and vote seat counting - India Votes June 2024. Perhaps they did not know how comparatively well they were doing at thi stage.

flowers · farmland

Big display of Amaryllis belladonna Lilies or Hippeastrum in flower at Wilderness Orchard in March 2024 A range of colours of Amaryllis blooming beautifully at Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens in the Delhi spring-time, with crimsons, re…

flowers · farmland

A Peahen has found her way into the lilies and Salvias! Big display of Amaryllis belladonna Lilies or Hippeastrum in flower at Wilderness Orchard in March 2024 A range of colours of Amaryllis blooming beautifully at Wilderness Orchard botan…

farmland

Asian Green Bee-eater perches on a twig, chirruping joyously, ready to catch insects on the wing, at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

Red Avadavat or Munia seen in Delhi city: Munias were popular cage birds, fortunately now banned for the captive bird trade.

highway

Wall Art on pillars in Taimoor Nagar flyover in New Delhi: Roads look spiffy while the nullahs look ganda and polluted with plastic and dirty mosquito-infested waters.

hills · farmland

The ridge of spiny scales - Does that give the innocuous Bloodsucker Lizard of Indian gardens its common but rather threatening and obvious misnomer of a name? Oriental Garden Lizard hangs around lazily at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, t…

farmland

Sunset in New Delhi? Believe it or not, we do have some nice sunsets too! This is a Wilderness Orchard view through thick teak tree cover.

birds · lake

In the search of insects is apparently needed great stillness and concentration. This strategy seems to have worked for the heron! Look at those yellow eyes and the brown dappled body, all alert and poised to strike at the fish in our wildf…

birds · farmland

Day time can be traumatic for ullus! Babblers and Laughing Thrushes, sunbirds and bulbuls all harass and create a crackling cacophony around them, if an owl is seen trying to quietly sleep on a branch by day.

Placards and slogans of 'Better to Die on your feet than live on your knees'! Girls take part in Ashura in Old Delhi: Muharram extends its ambit to Shia women who start early

river · bazaar

Children and adults walk through brown muddy waters on what was once a bustling busy motor road! The novelty of the experience is not lost on anyone...

monsoon · highway

A toddler takes a shower from the fresh water emanating from a water tanker on the streets of New Delhi, after incessant monsoon floods caused a shortage of clean water.

Cleaning Delhi roads sludge and water logging using bulldozers, air moistening pollution machines cast aside in the heavy monsoon humidity.

flowers

Bright cheery surajmukhi or Sunflower buds and flowers being pollinated by bees, in Delhi's summer heat. Surajmukhi Sunflower buds and flowers being pollinated by bees, in Delhi's summer heat