Delhi

Patients' families and the sick and destitute come to these food vans for free food and meals distributed by charitable citizens and NGO's. Free meals are gratefully consumed. .

Lots of glue and paper is used to make the giant Ravana effigies that get burned and exploded on Dussehra day in India, and Teetarpur is Ravan central for most of north India! The glue is heated in large metal canisters, for application.

monsoon

See the result of Delhi's heaviest rainfall in some fifteen years, on 8th October 2022. Under passes of flyovers were the worst hit, as usual.

monsoon

A tractor drives through Delhi, an Indian flag fluttering atop it, with labourers sitting in the trailer.

village · bazaar

The village of Teetarpur is where every Dussehra organizer heads in order to order their Ravana effigies in time for the big bust-up fireworks of Dussehra day.

Ravan gets his eyes painted on, on his giant purple effigy which is set to be burned to the ground today, on Dussehra. Ravana's eye being painted at Titarpur in Delhi, in time for the Dussehra lighting up with fireworks

highway

City of Rats - New Delhi has a massive underground network of rodents, waiting to launch next plague We generate so much waste in Delhi that the rats seem to have made a massive network in our city, living off our human scraps! Did you know…

river

Heavy rains in Delhi turn roads into river at AIIMS: Delhi infrastructure not geared for heavy rains

school

School children must love the multi-colourded flags and pastel colours on the walls of Mukherjee Public School in Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi.

Does India need big expensive lumbering Pollution control machine in Sarojini Nagar Does India need big expensive lumbering Pollution control machines or simply better policy and air management?

railway · highway

Maal gaadi at Lodhi colony railway station in New Delhi: Goods trains still chug into New Delhi, running on coal and electricity! Slowly does the train enter Delhi, under a traffic over-bridge, blowing its train horn wistfully.

Every sound and sight is a mystery for this young forest bird - a Grey Hornbill that has just fledged in New Delhi city.

Hornbills nesting in Delhi? Yup, you hear right! See this cute hornbill chick picking ants from nest hole. It spends its spare time (which is all the time it has!), looking to pick ants that pass by, with its sharp beak.

wildlife · industry

Delhi seems to be catching up on the Covid lull, as multiple residential and commercial projects catch up on the gap years. A tower crane dominates a construction site in Delhi, as the city undertakes lots of post Covid projects.

bazaar

Shopping for a range of colourful kurta salwar suits and kutis in New Delhi will invariably take one to Sarojini Nagar.

A procession is taken out by Muslim Shia men on the streets of Old Delhi. Their placard reads: "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" The men slap their heads in mourning for the martyrdom of Hussain.

birds · wildlife

Unusually located right below two small stems of a bakain or Persian Lilac tree, this One Rupee coin sized nest-hole was created by a Crimson-breasted Barbet.

forest

Little Grey Hornbill hicks call out to their father, as the female and chicks remain incarcerated in their hollow trunk tree nest-hole in a bakain tree.

Jehangirpuri in Delhi on alert mode, with security personnel on standby, awaiting riots and slum opposition to the demolition action by the government.

birds · wildlife

Summer-time nesting of the Green Barbet in a hollow tree trunk hole in a Bakain or Persian Lilac tree, in crowded busy New Delhi city.

A PWD (Public Works Department) daily wage earner / labourer / worker eats food sitting on the roadside ground near Sarojini Nagar in New Delhi. Sad that this is his reward for a hard day's work.