Delhi

highway

Delhi Police cops patrol the streets of Old Delhi, around Jama Masjid. Women walk past in hijab and burkhas / burqa. The cops wear masks. The women do not require masks, given their attire.

highway · railway

No traffic congestion and India's longest intercity metro rail closed for more than two months but this municipality employee is planting wall decoration plants after the Corona Lockdown.

A deserted Jor Bagh Metro after metro lines in New Delhi reopened during the Corona Pandemic. A cycle rickshaw puller with mask is seen with his passenger. Very few passengers are seen coming in or out of the metro gate.

river

Toxic detergent foam freely flows into Yamuna River in Delhi : Whither Ganga clean-up programme? India drinks water from this river of foam and detergent: Polluted Yamuna river Delhi Surfactants and phosphates dominate Yamuna River water in…

The Presidential residence in New Delhi is a 340 room mansion designed by the architect Edward Lutyens at the time of the British Raj. This was built as the residence of the British Viceroy in India.

politics · highway

At India Gate, an air pollution campaign takes place, for the youth to show that they are against air pollution.

highway · railway

Coal trains chug into Delhi. It is unbelievable that we still burn Koyla in Dilli and then blame cars and trucks as the only serious source of air pollution.

flowers

Despite being cold weather plants, these Delphinium spires bloom in a Delhi garden, in mid-summer heat.

industry

Daily wage labourers putting all their physical strength on the manual driller ar a construction site in South Delhi. It sure looks a lot of muscle straining and energy put into the driller and making very little progress.

aerial · highway

A gran establishing aerial 4K shot of the Connaught Place - CP - Rajiv Chowk - Connaught Circus area of central Delhi, with the gurudwara prominently visible as well.

highway · flowers

Normally the most crowded parts of Delhi, Rajouri Garden and Paschim Vihar in West Delhi see hardly any traffic during the March 2020 lockdown.

livestock

These goats manage to eke out a living in Dilli, eating off scant weeds, Parthenium, grasses and leftovers from human meals. They even stand on their rear legs and climb or jump to be able to reach low handing branches.

festival · music

Who would imagine the hallowed portals of the Delhi Gymkhana Club as the venue of a concert featuring the iconic Eagles song 'Hotel California'? Hotel California in New Delhi as Eagles land at the Northeast Festival 2021 at Gymkhana Club

music

Mohammad Salman the Flautist roams Delhi markets, playing his flute, and trying to sell bansuri wooden flutes. His flutes are priced between Rs. 150 and Rs. 500 or US$2 and US$7 each.

ceremony

The formal Flag handover ceremony started with Mrs. Sheila Dikshit, the Chief Minister of Delhi and Mr. Robert Winter, Lord Provost of Glasgow coming forward for the flag exchange. Handing over the Flag Mrs.

ceremony · dance

Kachchi Ghodi, folk dance of Rajasthan being performed during Durga Puja celebrations in CR Park. The Durga Puja at Chittaranjan Park in New Delhi is one of the most prominent ones in the whole of North India.

A pair of damselflies get together at our Wilderness wetlands in Delhi. During mating, the male uses claspers at the tip of his abdomen to grasp the female behind her head tightly enough to resist the attempts by other males to dislodge him…

architecture · temple

A fabulous view of a lovely old Italian architecture influenced church building in New Delhi's Gole Market, near Bangla Saheb gurudwara.

That wretched scourge of eating in thermocol and plastic plates and then throwing away the same, at that very spot on the road where the meal was consumed.

flowers

A common Indian autumn flowering shrub which your Nani and Dadi would recognize in an instant! A peculiar flower which blooms at night and full of distinct aroma and is the state flower of West Bengal.

highway · bus

Save for the face masks, do you see the Corona effect anywhere in sight? The rush of cars, auto rickshaws, bicycles, buses and pedestrians belies the post lockdown Covid19 fear.

highway · monsoon

Adhchini corssing between IIT and Saket, with the JNU - Katwaria Sarai road joining in to it, at the erstwhile Ansavv store, has always been a water trap hazard.

highway

Ambulance on the AIIMS Road with sirens blaring and a number of vehicles plying near the hospital. Ambulances are parked outside AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital in South Delhi.