Delhi

old town · music

As the heritage walk in Mehrauli, organized by 'Delhi By Foot' in collaboration with Riya Sarkar was coming to an end. We ended up having a wonderful session of Qawwali at Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki.

highway · monsoon

The Corona Lockdown of more than two months and Delhi is finding ways to cope with the new normalcy of physical distancing and wearing masks wherever it is.

highway · monsoon

The underpass painted in the tricolour of the Indian flag with a clock in the centre after the Republic Day celebrations in 2020. Behold the 'Legendary' Delhi traffic back to its old ways post the Corona Lockdown.

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India celebrates 74th Independence Day in the midst of the Corona Pandemic. Travel restrictions and other preventive measures in place to check the spread of the virus.

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Real time and time lapse of traffic in Ring Road, Safdarjung. Vehicles are seen vying for space in the crowded street. Private to public vehicles, two-wheelers, bicycle carts are seen in the bustle of South Delhi after the Corona Lockdown.

highway · monsoon

Avoid Minto Road in Delhi at all costs during the monsoon season if you drive a low-slung car! Even buses have been known to go under and get submerged at the underpass during heavy rains! This video shows just the start of the rainy excess…

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Thousands of vehicles on the move at the same time under an overcast sky in Delhi in the early winter. Vehicles do not seem too worried about the ambulances trying to maneuver through them.

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Traffic in Delhi is an integral part of the city and is rather legendary in making everyone late for their destinations and there seems to be no respite even with the coming of a new year.

highway · bus

The chaos on the streets of New Delhi during rush hour in the winter after limited metro and bus services with more vehicles on the move. Ambulances blaring their siren as they try to make way through the traffic maze.

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Poor women and families live in camps near the Yamuna river in Delhi. Women hang around with other women, men go out to work and the children play together in bands.

politics · dance

African Dance from Botswana, at wildfilmsindia orchard in Delhi: Batswana do the setap African dance performed by the Ngoao Loshalaba from Botswana and the Okavango Delta area performing at Wilderness Films India Ltd. in New Delhi.

Indians and sarees are nothing new especially if you are out in shopping markets like Sarojini Nagar. Customers are seen checking out bridal sarees, blingy wedding sarees in multiple colours and patterns.

bazaar · highway

Circling in a large circular loop, this man puts up a show for the masses visiting a Delhi mela, going round and round the stage in circles, and clearly not getting road sick! Quite a feat of practiced competence...

Shopkeepers wait to make good business on the day of Dhanteras during Diwali celebrations in South Delhi. Shops display their wares at the front of their shops.

bazaar · crafts

The Corona Lockdown saw a complete shut down of one of South Delhi's biggest flea market, Sarojini Nagar Market. But now the market area is back to its dormer crowding glory with hundreds milling in and out of the narrow lanes.

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Months of stoppage on businesses in Sarojini Nagar seems to have left everything to rot with shopkeepers putting out clothing items on sale.

highway · ceremony

A transvestite is seen soliciting money from passing vehicles at the traffic point in Naoroji Nagar, South Delhi.

flowers · highway

On a fine sunny day in Delhi, near Safdurjung Enclave and the Ring Road, the usual traffic, what caught the attention was the lone mango tree blooming, the red stem and yellow tiny flowers look so pretty in close-up.

farmland

Rupin Dang harvests a daily dose of citrus, among them oranges, kinnow / kinnu, malta and red blood grapefruit at the Wilderness Orchard in South Delhi.

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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…

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We have heard of the road-side amrud wallah and kela seller and mango retailer, but who has heard of Kiwi fruit being sold on an Indian roadside? Good old Indian enterprise, innovation and adaptation at work!

monsoon · highway

See the good samaritan biker who helps out the poor three-wheeler auto rickshaw driver in monsoon distress! A three-wheeler auto rickshaw and a sedan both had their engines cease after flooded monsoon rain water entered their exhaust pipes…

highway · bus

After an unprecedented heavy shower in early September 2021, the Outer Ring Road near Vasant Vihar area was flooded completely.