Karnataka

highway

The din of traffic! Walking down the busy streets of Bangalore city in Karnataka, India. Cars, taxi cabs, auto rickshaws and pedestrians crowd the roads and pathways alongside them.

industry

India is marching ahead with unbridled construction on all fronts, and on erstwhile agricultural lands, leading to a vast urbanization process across the nation.

aerial · architecture

Multi-coloured buildings dot the Bengaluru skyline. Bangalore city, Madiwala buildings urban sprawl: Aerial view of Bengaluru in Karnataka, as seen aerially, from the air.

forest · wildlife

Just what is wrong with tiger tourism in India - rowdy exictable tourists, noisy tourism vehicles, disturbances to wild animals and getting too close to critical habitats for tigers and other big cats.

highway · railway

Southern Highways and an Indian Railway traffic intersection in Karnataka, on a rainy day in the Western Ghats. Driving on a wet highway through a forested area, with buffalos walking the same road from a nearby village.

forest · farmland

Western Ghats of Karnataka: Forest and agriculture interface between rice fields and palm cultivation, with red lateritic soil visible clearly in this aerial view of forest habitat that has been ruined and turned to agriculture in recent ye…

river · aerial

Stunning aerial view of Jog Falls and the Sharavati river in Karnataka's Western Ghats: Second highest plunge waterfall in India, embellished with a lovely rainbow as the clear white waters fall into the chasm with muddy brown water pools.

forest

The fourth session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, at the request of H.E.

The second session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, at the request of H.E.

The sixth session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, at the request of H.E.

The fourteenth session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, at the request of H.E.

The twelfth session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, at the request of H.E.

The eighteen session of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, at the request of H.E.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's New Year's message to foreigners attending his teaching at Sera Jey Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India on January 1, 2014.

temple · hills

Large numbers of devotees gather for celebrating Brahmarathotsava in Karnataka. The Lakshmi-Narasimha Swamy Temple on the edge of a huge rock formation in Devarayanadurga.

architecture

Solar roof-top powered campus buildings at the fancy campus of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Udupi, Manipal, Karnataka state, India. Manipal is a suburb and university town within Udupi, in coastal Karnataka, India.

aerial · hills

Diesel-spewing heavy trucks and cranes mine and carry iron and manganese ore out of Sandur mines in Bellary, Karnataka Entire Western ghats mountain tops cut off with roads and plundered hillsides.

temple · coastline

Majestic visuals from the sky of the beautiful ancient Murdeshwar Temple and the 20 storey Gopura on top of the temple. The sprawling temple premises and the Murdeshwar Shiva with the backdrop of the Arabian Sea.