Meerut

Uttar Pradesh·bazaar

The dawn pandemonium is a tradition in many vegetable markets in North India and this one is no different.

Uttar Pradesh·highway

A limp father drags his son in a cart with their personal belongings and a vessel for collecting alms. The mother trails behind two of them on a hot sunny day in North India.

Uttar Pradesh·highway

A number of vehicles moving in a slow and steady movement but this will not win the race against Coronavirus. The residents of Meerut are going about their daily routine even as cases of Coronavirus are spiking in the country.

Uttar Pradesh·sport

At a small cottage industry for crickets bats in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, a cricket bat is finished and prepared for shipping, after completion. The stickers are affixed as per the brand name that the willow bat would sell under.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Factory workers at a sports clothing manufacturing unit in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh are seen spreading out fabric for marking and cutting on a large board. This will be sized in the desired measurements with an electric cloth cutting machine.

Uttar Pradesh·sport

A tailoring enterprise is busy making Bermuda shorts and sportswear for men after the Corona Lockdown in Meerut. A traditional set up with modernised sewing machines but still the basics of tailoring is used.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Workers at a factory in Meerut are busy roasting and packing the hard candy known as Rewari. The sugary confection after mixing with nuts is cut into bite-sized hard candies and roasted over medium heat and packed for sale.

Uttar Pradesh

Penda or peda being made at a halwai's shop in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Pedas are made year-round. They are made across India. Peda (pronounced [ˈpeːɽa]) or Pera is a sweet dish hailing from the Indian subcontinent.

Uttar Pradesh

Mukhtyar Singh Misthan Bhandar offers Balusahai cooked in 100% pure ghee. Here you can see a man pouring sugar syrup on the Balushahi. Mukhtyar Singh Misthan Bhandar is famous for Balushahi in Mawana, Meerut.

Uttar Pradesh·sport

The finishing touches are given to a cricket bat in India's manufacturing hub in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. All this is done manually, using simple wood-working tools. Truly bespoke crickets bats wherein no two are the same.

Uttar Pradesh·farmland · river

A local pooch cools off in a stream, next to a fallen and half-eaten dussehri mango and centipedes, at a Jwalagarh village mango orchard close to Meerut.

Uttar Pradesh·street food

Steaming hot tea served in eco-friendly clay cups called Kulhad or Kulhar chai is common in India. A tea house is busy preparing tea for its customers during the cold winters in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh

Bollywood director Vishal Bhardwaj talks about his film Omkara which is an adaptation from Shakespeare's Othello.

Uttar Pradesh

Two halwais work inside a rustic kitchen in Meerut, India, preparing a large batch of food for traditional sweets.

Uttar Pradesh

In the vicinity of the Ghanta ghar or clock tower of Meerut stands this statue. Meerut Town Hall was constructed in 1886 while Municipal Board (Nagar Palika) was established in 1892.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

A walk with the camera inside a plant nursery is thrilling for plant enthusiasts. Indoor plants such as snake plants and spider plants are seen inside the nursery. A mixture of different evergreen plants, flowering ones and succulents.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Junkyard of Sangal Papers Ltd., Mawana, Meerut district, India. Sangal Papers Ltd., Mawana, Meerut, U.P. situated around 90 Kms away from Delhi & is located in western U.P. This paper mill established in 1984 and running successfully then.

Uttar Pradesh·architecture · river

Begum Sumru's Basilica of Our Lady Of Graces, in Sardhana, near Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Uttar Pradesh·bazaar

A local vegetable market in Meerut features several small vendor stalls arranged along a paved or concrete ground.

Uttar Pradesh·festival · temple

Thousands of Kanwaras embark on the annual pilgrimage along the Meerut–Haridwar highway, carrying sacred Ganga water to offer at local temples.

Uttar Pradesh·bazaar

Business and commerce is running as usual in Meerut even when the Corona infections are spiking locals here are out in hundreds with no social distancing nor mask.

Uttar Pradesh·crafts

A timelapse video capturing a skilled craftsman making a traditional bamboo cane Moodha in Garhmukteshwar, the only major center for Moodha production in North India. There are no factories involved in this craft.

Uttar Pradesh

50,000 tonnes of mango wood to 'reduce' air pollution at the Meerut Mahayagna in Meerut. 350 Brahmins have gathered in Meerut for a 9-day Mahayagna aimed at reducing pollution.