Delhi

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…

highway

Tranvestites approach motorists for alms, on a Delhi road: Kinner persons touch heads of bikers, perhaps to bless them and blackmail for money in return...

Water sharing, Kaveri water dispute and more being discussed by Jayalalithaa and Vajpayee. Atal Bihari Vajpayee asks about the deficit, Cauvery / Kaveri monitoring committee meeting and the Karnataka government.

What a lovely clickety-clack of horse hooves by the tens at Rajpath, followed by the whirring of Russian helicopter rotors, before Republic day at India Gate What a regiment of well groomed horses of the Indian Army, and a BMW X5 to boot, f…

bazaar

Stand-in carriages for the tableaux drive on Rajpath as part of the rehearsal for the 72nd Republic Day of India.

railway · industry

The nationwide Corona Lockdown in India has left millions homeless and jobless in the urban and metropolitan areas.