Delhi

highway

The four-lane Ashram underpass was finally thrown open to the public on Sunday. At the inauguration, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the structure is expected to help reduce 3.6 tonnes of CO2 emissions and cut fuel usage by 1,550…

politics

Election fever and frenzy builds despite the 46 degrees Celsius heat in the shade! Voting in Delhi city as voters come out in moderate numbers with a dismal 50+% voter turnout... A woman shows her inked finger to our camera.

birds

Cute and ruby red bright eyed! A Collared Scops Owl gets rescued after being injured by a larger predator such as a Shikra, in Delhi. IN its down and out position, a group of Jungle Babbler heckle it on the ground.

A rare sight that took place at wildfilmsindia's wildlife sanctuary in Delhi today, of a Rat Snake Dhaman catching and eating a frog in Delhi at the Wilderness Orchard.

monsoon · fort

Fort moats take on a whole new meaning when flooded with monsoon rain waters and riverine flooding! How we under-estimate our rivers and their ability to re-chart and re-claim historical landscapes.

river

wildlife · birds

Cutest bird babies you ever saw! Large yellow eyes of newly-born Eurasian Stone Curlew chicks, as seen at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Delhi.

flowers · farmland

Stunning White Lotus flowers in the Delhi summer, at the Wilderness Orchard botanical gardens

Rare and filming for the first time ever: A Stone Curlew pair put on a threatening display, with their wings open and out-stretched in order to increase their size profile, as a Dhaman Rat snake comes near their eggs, to predate upon them.

Afghanistanis sell Afghani breads at their outlet in Delhi - freshly baked and just out of the oven, smoking hot and super fragrant! Afghan style tandoor roti being made in India, by Afghan nationals, at a bread making outlet

The figurative victory of good over evil, as Ravana burns up and explodes in a mass of fire crackers and light. Burning down Ravana on Dussehra in RK Puram (Ramakrishna Puram), New Delhi: Fire crackers light up effigy of evil.

Are we shedding the trappings of a colonial past, or simply pandering to political egotism? Does New Delhi need a new central esplanade, or should we simply be confident in our own situation and place, and not symbolism to prove our new pla…

school

Girls at a school in New Delhi, in home attire as they have prepared a special programme for their teachers on Teacher's Day.

dance · festival

An Odisi / Odishi dance performance at the Sree Jagannath Mandir on the occasion of Rath Yatra 2022 in Delhi.

Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan's cold war escalated, and the removal of Abhishek Bachchan from Delhi 6 by Rakeysh Mehra, and the induction of Hrithik Roshan, and when Dhoom 2's credit for becoming a hit went to Hrithik, the war only g…

flowers · highway

Honking crazy traffic and calming flower beds. Both go hand in hand in South Delhi. Aeroplanes overhead, but the petunias all pink and the white daisy type annuals, all look splendorous in the New Delhi spring, before the city begins to dro…

Salad leaf or lettuce, kale, pokchoy or bakchoy, chukandar or beetroot and spinach being grown at a vegetable garden in Delhi.

highway · bus

So much winter rain Delhi has barely ever seen! Yes, it's been a wet and cold winter in north India...

highway

Swastika symbolism on cars and ambulances on a New Delhi road in India. It is common to paint swastik symbols onto the bonnet or windshield of a car, for good luck. Even Ambulances have swastikas featured on them, hoping for fair tides.

highway · bus

Getting one's ear cleaned next to a juice stand in New Delhi - hygiene and lack of it co-exists in India. This particular ear cleaner even has a tube and ointment to apply to this man's ear, to soften the wax.

festival · dance

Longer days in India and people seem to assume Corona will vanish. Quite a crowd at this bonfire in South Delhi. Maskless dancers circling around the bonfire with young and olf, women, men and children participating in the festivities.

highway

Can bad air be far behind, when all the cars are back on our roads, Covid19 has not been beaten and everyone has started going about their lives in a frenzied fashion once more? So the lockdown lasted long enough, but now life must return t…