Delhi

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

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.