Delhi

street food

Two scoops of Rice and dal are being packed in a white food container and sold to customers in New Delhi, and they are also cooking rice and dal in a big vessel near Naurojini Nagar.

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An old flower seller eats pizza as he sits on a cemented bench near a red light in front of an Indian Oil petrol pump in New Delhi. People wait at the traffic signal for the light to turn green and watch him eat.

school · temple

A lovely aerial view of the Gol Dak Khana roundabout, Met Hotel, Bangla Sahib Lane, Gole Market, Bhai Vir Singh Marg and the sprawling campus of St. Columba's School in New Delhi, next to the gurudwara complex. St.

bazaar

Members of the Sarojini Nagar Market Authority speaks in front of the camera on security reasons in the market area. The Market area which is one of the most crowded in South Delhi is put on surveillance with almost a hundred CCTV cameras.

Street vendors selling mobile phone accessories sit at the service lane adjacent to AIIMS Hospital during the day after the lockdown is lifted. The lane looks crowded with quite a few shops selling phone products and clothing.

Some shops are still shut but others are beginning to open, as Yusuf Sarai begins to get back to its original hustle and bustle mode.

fort

Social distancing and caution have gone to the winds as Delhi gears up for Diwali. The public seems to have relaxed and the memories of weeks of total shut down must have faded from the residents' minds.

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A montage of moving imagery from 1990's Delhi - New, Old and Newest! A iook down the central vista before the grand mega plans took over. A simpler city.

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South Delhi Medicos and Bhutani Medicos are just a few of the multitude of medicine shops and chemists on the Ring Road - Yusuf Sarai stretch next to the two largest hospitals in Asia - AIIMS and Safdarung Hospital.

Riki Tiki Tawi is in town! Common Gray Mongoose or Indian Gray Mongoose - Lethal predator of King Cobra spotted in Delhi A pair of cute Indian Gray Mongoose ventures outside the burrow under a concrete structure.

This male and females are Asia's largest antelopes and one may think they may be elusive but no this is a public park in Adchini locality in South Delhi. The female and calf are seen grazing while the male is seen sitting under the trees.

farmland

Beady beady eyes is what this neola has - all the better to stop you with, to attack you with the help of and then eat you with! This mommy neola is tending to the training of her young pups at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi...

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Batter is poured onto the pan, and a dosa is lined up for patrons of an outdoor food stand at Bhikaji Cama Place in New Delhi. The round dosa is patted down with a ladle.

Red-wattled Lapwings roaming with their dainty yellow legs and displaying the red wattles on their face. The adults look alert as they forage around the dry surrounding which is close to their nesting area.

birds

With its large yellow circled black eyes, cute rounded face and brown and white speckled plumage, the Spotted Owlet is not even a full owl, as it is an owlet! Meet the urban owl of India! Spotted Owlets are common in India and even in urban…

birds · wildlife

These Zesterops palpebrosa couple hover over a small water body and then decide to plunge in, after first hesitatingly approaching the water from a the stem of a small plant.

birds

In this Moti Bagh park in South Delhi, a pair of Common Myna or Acridotheres tristis tristis have chosen to nest in a tree hollow.

birds · wildlife

Jungle Babbler, Oriental Magpie-Robin, House Sparrow, Brown-headed Barbet are common birds found in trees and parks in New Delhi. They have adapted to living in residential areas along with other birds.

birds

These common birds in Delhi are quite colourful with their yellow foot and greenish and subtle grey plumage. Yellow-footed Green Pigeon are common on fruit trees and shaded trees in parks and roadsides.

birds · flowers

Tota as it is locally called is a common species of bird here in Delhi. A female Rose-ringed Parakeet is seen camouflaged with the green leaves and fruit of a tree in our office complex, pecking at Pilkhan Ficus virens fruit.

birds

This Katphora or Golden-backed Woodpecker (now known as the Lesser Flameback) lives up to its name, by excavating a nest-hole within the dead tree trunk of a Casuarina tree at our Orchard in Delhi.

birds

This is stiff competition for ownership of a much-in-demand hollow tree trunk with a nest-hole in an urban Gulmohor tree, between a Common Myna couple and an Indian Grey Hornbill pair.