Delhi

farmland · wildlife

This agile bird eats bees and catches insects on the wing, with great dexterity: The Asian Green Bee-eater at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

birds · flowers

Tota ka ghonsla: Parakeet nests in a cavity hole within a Jacaranda tree trunk in Delhi Cute tota chick stares out of nest for first time! Parakeet male and female do rounds as they feed the ever hungry mouths.

flowers · hills

Yellow orchid flowers of Dendrobium densiflorum from Sikkim, seen flowering in Delhi garden during spring-time Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan epiphytic tree orchid mostly found in the Sikkim and West Bengal Himalaya flowers profusely…

flowers · hills

Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan epiphytic tree orchid mostly found in the Sikkim and West Bengal Himalaya flowers profusely in the spring season at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in New Delhi.

Indian battle or fighter tanks put up a show of Indian Army military strength at Republic Day 2023, in New Delhi. MBT Main battle tank Arjun.

bazaar

Sugarcane is being harvested in the fields of north India, and gurh or jaggery is being prepared on site as well. Sellers across the north, with winter cold impending, prepare their stocks for sale to village and urban folks alike.

ceremony · festival

Navratri festival food being served at Chittaranjan Park Durga puja in New Delhi: This must surely be the finest Bengali food available in north India, a festive treat for local Bengali folks in Delhi and non Bengalis alike.

monsoon

Subhash Chandra Bose Smarak statue at India Gate - Kartavya Path new additions against monsoon blue sky in Delhi.

highway

Flights over-fly Delhi city, aligning to land at IGIA Delhi Airport. Air traffic is up to and even higher than pre-Covid levels. A plane crosses a visual frame with a large India flag in it, in Delhi city.

birds

This little owl is so disturbed by city noises that it can barely get any sleep. It seems that this owl is awake in the daytime and sleeps at night, perhaps! The heat of the summer months also forces this owlet outside, to get some air and…

highway · ceremony

A woman fine-tunes, paints and finalizes her Durga Pooja statues, and prepares them for sale on a roadside in Delhi.

monsoon

Frying puris for Kawadiya pilgrims passing through Delhi, during their monsoon pilgrims carrying Ganga water Frying puris for Kawariya pilgrims in Delhi, during monsoon pilgrimage as they carry Ganga water

Private planes of corporate houses and HNI's parked at Delhi airport, Air India plane comes in to land.

temple

A temple and an Islamic masjid have co-existed in Jehangirpuri, New Delhi for ages, and then along come the slum demolitions, and things change! Structures and slums can be seen after demolition without due process, on the streets.

farmland

An Indian farmer woman has just uprooted and sorts fresh garlic pods at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. Lehsun or lassan is harvested in the early summer months, having grown through the cooler winter months.

flowers

Summer Princess is a White Rose shrub that grows easily in Delhi gardens. This is perhaps the hardiest non-thorny rose to grow in India, and it's trouble-free and blooms for much of the year.

farmland

Big yellow eyes and a shy cute face! With a flowering larkspur behind, a Stone Curlew approached its nest scrape, and sits on its eggs in the open harsh summer sun at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi, on 31st March 2022.

architecture

A building above DBS Bank gets cleaned at Connaught Place in Central New Delhi. Just rudimentary worker safety is practiced, with a simple harness around the waster, as the workman uses a long squeegee to clean the external glass panes of a…

industry · bazaar

These daily wage labourers turn up in large numbers at the labour market at Gujjar Chowk in New Delhi. They are hoping to get hired for the day, for manual labour or construction work with daily wages in the Rs.

politics · hills

The landscape at of the heart of the Lutyens' Delhi designed Parliament and South-North block district is about to change, with a massive re-development project in the final stages of completion.

flowers · highway

Imagine - Delhi city pays around Rs. 60 to 100 per tulip flower bulb only to have to flower once and then discard the same? Normally, tulips are grown year after year in cold weather locales, but in Delhi's heat, they are left in the ground…