Delhi

ceremony

Before the deity of Durga, Hindu devotees come in to pray and pay obeisance. They get a mauli thread tied on their wrists. Th sacred thread cuts across various Hindu religions ceremonies.

bazaar

A mass of mehndi artist men paint on henna tattoes or mehndi onto the palms and hands of girls and young women at Sarojini Nagar market in New Delhi, in time for Rakhi or Raksha Bandhan festival.

The rear gate from the hostel entry side, next to PAM Pizza and Momos) and Nescafe and canteen outlets. Old palm trees with money plant growing on them. Red brick facade with stone work. Kabir Singh, a Bollywood film, was shot here.

aerial · architecture

To think these Supertech twin towers are destined to be razed to the ground into piles of rubble, with the use of powerful explosives in August 2022, causing plumes of dust pollution and environmentally vile construction and demolition wast…

music

Neha Dhupia at music release of film Delhi Heights: "The title - Delhi Heoghts - is a building complex. Very interesting ensemble cast and crew. Suhana is my character's name.

birds · wildlife

Is this regular Ulla of our Indian cities the wise owl we often refer to, in folklore? Certainly seems to be a cute fellow, and harmless to humans too.

ceremony

Get a ringside view of Republic Day 2021, as seen from India Gate in New Delhi. This is an unusual ceremony year as there will be no crowds in attendance, and a spartan ceremony as well, given the Covid19 conditions, with no visiting dignit…

A brief glimpse of the rehearsal on Rajpath in New Delhi a few days ahead of the 72nd Republic Day of India. This celebrates India's Republic status and also one of the largest military parades and India's cultural diversity.

highway

There is actually ONE CAR on the Ring Road! Yaay! Fly over Barapulla - the new road from Delhi to cross to NOIDA and Ghaziabad and head to the hills. No cars here! None at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences either.

temple · ceremony

Priests in masks! Shri Jagannath Temple in New Delhi, famous for the Rath Yatra and dedicated to Jagannath by the Odia devotees pens its doors for prayers after the Corona Lockdown.

Shia Muslims observe Ashura on the streets of Old Delhi. They take out a procession through the streets of the National Capital along with other parts of India.

What lovely light bathes this most ignored observatory in the heart of central Delhi! The Jantar Mantar is an equinoctial sundial, consisting of a gigantic triangular gnomon with the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis, built by Maharaj…

A sugarcane juicing machine being run on a small diesel engine, on a Delhi streetside, to sell sugarcane juice or ganne ka ras to passersby in this Covid19 era.

politics

Rajiv Gandhi says "I have seen the problems with roads, communications, food, work, water, education and that is why we have started certain specific programs for tribal areas from the centre.

politics · river

Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan sees off Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi inside an Ambassador car while he is heard saying he will follow behind in another car.

Sewaks wash dishes dirtied after people have eaten food at a langar at Gurudwara Sis Ganj Saheb in Delhi. This voluntary service is an intrinsic part of Sikhism to serve Him and his people and is an expression of humility.

Ravan effigies getting prepared at Teetarpur in Delhi. Paper is pasted onto the Ravanas that will be burned on Dussehra day this year- 2021.

architecture · politics

Compilation of British architecture icons of New Delhi which is popularly known as Lutyens' Delhi.

festival · aerial

Rome has the Colosseum, Delhi has Ansal Plaza decorated for the Momo Royals of Momo Festival. An aerial view of the amphitheatre like shopping complex in Khelgaon.

railway

The entrance to the New Delhi Railway station is decorated in the tricolour of the National Flag and other multiple colours at night ahead of the festive season.

festival

Motives and themes, expressions of animate, inanimate mythological, historical and the abstract.

A cute squirrel or Gilheri is spotted at our office complex in Delhi nibbling away at a pile of soaked gram dal. Look at the speed the little one is munching away holding a single dal in its paws.