Delhi

ceremony · festival

Women dressed for the festivities of Durga Puja circle around the priest at a Pandal in CR Park in Delhi. The women are seen offering flowers known as Anjali Puja which is an important ritual of the festival celebration.

ceremony

A woman is seen blowing the conch shell during the Shankh Saptami Puja during Durga Puja celebrations at a private Durga Puja Pandal in Delhi.

ceremony · lake

Women of Bengal land up in their finest finery, dressed in formal sarees, at the K block Durga Puja celebrations at CR Park in New Delhi: Bengali domain at Chittaranjan Park.

highway

A child with Macrocephaly or enlarged head and setting sun eyes is nursed by the mother under a flyover in South Delhi. A couple of onlookers watch them as the sister tries to play with the child.

music · festival

Indira Naik comes from a family of artistes with a Bharat Natyam exponent mother and a sitar-playing father.

highway · wildlife

Ring Road in South Delhi near AIIMS hospital jam packed with vehicles during rush hour. Public and private transport on the move. Motorcycles, rickshaws and cycle carts are also weaving their way in between the bigger cars and buses.

highway

Yusuf Sarai has no more space for pedestrians and cars. Stuffed and suffocated street with no space left to move in between cars. Ambulance sirens blare away but there is no space to make way for the ambulance.

highway · bus

Ambulances are struggling to squeeze through the maddening maze of vehicles in South Delhi. Cyclists and motorists alike wait at the traffic signal with horns blaring.

highway

Delhi's traffic is legendary and it gets even crazier when it rains like this small glimpse of Yusuf Sarai Market area during the heavy winter rains in January 2021.

highway

A fluid movement of hundreds of cars on a dark gloomy day in Delhi. It almost looks like a car roof carpet. This is usual Delhi traffic craze and even worse on rainy days.

highway

A mixed traffic landscape from New Delhi city, with a multiplicity of traffic and vehicular types.

Young girls and women shoppers turn up at Green Park market prior to Raksha bandhan / Rakshabandhan, in order to get rakhis for their male cousins and brothers, for the big day of Raksha bandan or Rakhi, in New Delhi city.

highway · river

Brown water wells up from below the flyover. Chocolate milk shake, anyone? Cars and three-wheeler auto rickshaws plough through deep water as they approach the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS or Medical Flyover going towards I…

flowers

Karonda fruit, also called Black Currant or Christ’s thorn and scientifically termed Carissa carandas, is a traditional summer produce in India, that is widely utilised in making pickles, jams and preserves.

Office outlet of banking company Yes Bank at South Extension after the Corona Lockdown. Cars parked outside the office complex along with huge flocks of pigeon.

A time lapse of the weather in the monsoons in New Delhi. From intense blue skies with floating white wisps and balls of clouds. Then comes the winds and suddenly its gray and dark. Enjoy the time lapse of changing landscape of the sky!

monsoon · highway

Drip drip drap drap as the raindrops touch the leaves of the Banyan tree (Ficus religiosa) on Factory Road in South Delhi. Mild winds accompanying the dark clouds and heavy rains as monsoon reach a peak in North India.

monsoon

See the mass locomotion of monsoon worms at our Delhi Orchard! You could call them creepy-crawlies or just accept them as a normal and natural part of our rainy season system... See how they move together as a mass.

music

Gabor Csaba Becze, Balazs Gergely Radvanyi, Daniel Peter Gryllus, Vilmos Jeno Gryllus, Anna Kyoko Szabo and Gabor Major playing folk music of Hungary at Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre in New Delhi.

street food · bazaar

A worker stuffs balls of dough with aloo or potato mixture which will be rolled out into a flatbread and deep-fried in oil.

street food

Gigantic Kadai with boiling oil inside the cooking space in one of Sarojini's street food joints. Fresh dough is flattened out and put into the oil for deep frying.

street food · bazaar

Shoppers and pedestrians throng Mahendra sweet house inside Sarojini Nagar market for snacking on some of North India's favourite street foods.