Delhi

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The main street of Yusuf Sarai is carpeted in car hoods after heavy rains in the early part of January 2021. Cars trying to rush but there is no place to go with hundreds of cars lined up.

bus · highway

Delhi commuters on the roads, walking between bus stops, heading to work in the late 1990's to early 2000's, a good 30 years back. This is rare archival footage of the pre CNG era when public buses only ran on older more polluting diesel.

monsoon

Rain Beseras are the desi version of home shelters. Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board this is the agency for opration and management of night shelter in the city.

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Labourers and poor people get free food and eat it literally off the ground and by the road, sitting in the traffic dust. a community soup kitchen has been operated during Corona times, for those in the poor zone.

highway · bus

Maruti 800, white Ambassador, bullock cart, blue line buses among bicycles on the roads of Delhi. This footage is from that time when the roads were wide and visible as the number of vehicles were less.

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This clip maybe testimony that nothing affects the 'Legendary' Indian traffic specially Delhi Traffic. Covis 19 Pandemic has got nothing on the movement of traffic in hundreds and thousands.

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Jumping onto Barapullah from AIIMS is like getting a 'Get out of Jail for free' card in Monopoly! It takes you out of the air pollution and trafficy crowds of Delhi and straight out into the relatively more open country of Uttar Pradesh! Bu…

river · ceremony

Women from the Bihar-Uttar Pradesh belt celebrate Chhat puja at the end of the monsoon season. They lay out garlands made of marigold flowers and sit by the Yamuna river in Delhi.

music · highway

Bansuri wallah of Dilli : Flautist walks the marketplaces of Delhi, to sell wooden bamboo flutes and entertain one and all. Note the wide prevalence of facial masks as these are Covid times.

flowers · industry

Blooming fresh from the trunk of a tree in the early summers, these flowers are called Foxtail (Rhynchostylis retusa).

Tiny little bachha fruit of the Sharaifa tree! The unripe fruits of Annona reticulata filmed after a fresh shower at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. It is an uncommon fruit in India.

farmland

While many of us prefer the bitter marmalade that this makes, and include the rind and pips for pectin as a natural preservative, others just like eating them raw! Trees laden with organic and ripe Chinese Mandarins or tangerines at our Wil…

monsoon · highway

A convoy of Indian Army Ashok Leyland Stallion trucks splash their way through a flooded city street in New Delhi, during the monsoon season of 2021. A PWD MUV stands in deep water, suctioning out the water into a tank within the vehicle.

A sprawling palace in the heart of New Delhi is home to the President of the world's largest democracy. Named the Rashtrapati Bhavan or 'Presidential Palace after India's independence.

flowers

The Indian Laburnum even has a Gurgaon society named after it! See the Amaltash or Cassia fistula flowering in summer-time profusion of yellow flowers along Delhi's avenues.

highway · flowers

The Teak is a prominent hard wood tree in India, but its harvest is now almost entirely banned. Here it flowers in abandon along a South Delhi road, near a car park and taxi stand, shedding its delicate white flowers to the ground.

farmland · highway

In a burst of mustard or sarsoan flowers, a truck pulls into a field to collect harvest in India Agriculture on the outskirts of New Delhi city in North India - 22nd December cauliflower or phool gobhi harvest at its peak!

street food · bazaar

Ram Laddoo is a popular snack eaten with chutney or sauce in North India and this snack is making a comeback at Sarojini Nagar Market after the Corona Lockdown.

bazaar

How does one go about eating in public with a mask on? To hell with it - we're talking paani puris and puchkas, so off with the mask, seem to say these consumers, as they chow down on panipuri at Sarojini Nagar market in South Delhi, as sum…

street food

When work-day hunger calls, call on Khandani Pakode wala at Bhikaji Kama Place in New Delhi, for yummy and sinfully unhealthy deep fried pakoras for your snack cravings, just as these office goers seem to be doing in Covid time New Delhi at…

street food

Part of an IIT experience is eating double roti and anda or Bread omelette at Devender Tea Stall near IIT and Hauz Khas. Elements of everyday Delhi comfort street food!

Rafiq Chicken Corner in Jama Masjid, for the best Chicken Malai tikka, tandoori chicken and other barbecued meats, Rann, kebabs and tandoori in Old Delhi's Chandni Chowk area, a haven for foodies.

Pakoras being fried by a Muslim gentleman in delightful polyunsaturated fats. Fresh fried Indian delights called pakora in making at a street shop in Chandni Chowk outside Red Fort.