Meerut

Uttar Pradesh

A happy and smiling stall vendor is busy sharpening knives and blades with a blade sharpener. Sparks flying off the wheel as he sits in the stall filled with kitchen accessories and a whole lot of locks!

Uttar Pradesh·industry

The dark side of industry! Fly through a factory chimney's polluting smokestack at a Meerut local factory and an adjacent brick kiln - both small scale industries.

Uttar Pradesh·flowers · farmland

Plucking aam with a laggi stick: Meerut Mango orchard shannigans on a hot summer mango harvest day. More like mango orchard workers in north India shaking up the mango branch and dropping the mangos to the ground...

Uttar Pradesh·industry · highway

Construction of the Delhi - Meerut Metro is in full swing and once completed, it will change the fortunes of the almost forgotten city of Meerut and bring it into new-age relevance to India, as a major manufacturing hub that it already is,…

Uttar Pradesh·bus

There is a strange sense of order in this image of urban congestion and crowding in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state.

Uttar Pradesh·lake · river

Like in the age old notion of fishing, this woman sits with a bamboo pole and a fishing line next to a pond, with an umbrella over her head to protect from the summer sun, at a pond near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh·ceremony · festival

A group of women in Meerut sing devotional songs in front of the Ganesh idol and play musical instruments as part of the Ganesh Puja during Ganesh Chaturthi. The man of the house is blowing a conch shell.

Uttar Pradesh·farmland · livestock

A cute little pied heifer feeds on her mother's udders, but the mother tries to kick her away, bothered by the intervention! This dairy farm action takes place at a cow farm in Meerut.

Uttar Pradesh·dance

Small town north Indian girls dance to Holi rhythms in close proximity to each other, Covid caution be damned. India has thrown caution to the winds in 2021.

Uttar Pradesh·bus

There is a strange sense of order in this image of urban congestion and crowding in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state.

Uttar Pradesh·industry · crafts

Protective eyewear on and a diligent worker in one of Meerut's scissors making unit welds the metallic bolt that holds the two blades of a scissors together.

Uttar Pradesh·sport

Meerut in North India is one of the frontrunners when it comes to the manufacture of sports related clothing, equipment. We take you inside one of the factories manufacturing sportswear in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh·flowers

Mango Tree across India are explosively flowering with 'bor', in this warm spring-summer weather Mango Tree across India are explosively flowering with 'bor', in this warm spring-summer weather

Uttar Pradesh·architecture · temple

A 360 degree view of Basilica of our Lady of Graces, the largest church in Sardhana. A virtual view of the city and its surroundings. Mesmerising sky and greenery surrounding the city in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh

Ambulances line up outside private hospitals, for business. Ambulances seem to be doing roaring business as they are over-charging patients in many cases, especially those that are equipped with oxygen.

Uttar Pradesh·festival · livestock

Amid growing concerns of Corona cases rising, hundreds are visiting this trade fair in Meerut where books are sold by the literal weight. Children with no protective masks are seen enjoying a makeshift plastic pool and camel rides.

Uttar Pradesh·farmland

Sorting and packing langda and dussehri mangoes in a Meerut aam ka bagiya orchard, before despatching to Delhi

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Covid19 norms being flouted openly as crowds of mostly non-masked people line up for free food on a Meerut roadside.

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·farmland · village

Horses grazing in a grassy field in Meerut - Khurja region, one mare has the cutest little foal next to her! The footage captures a calm and expansive rural landscape where several horses are seen grazing freely across open agricultural fie…

Uttar Pradesh·farmland · bazaar

Farmers abuse each other in choice Hindi abuses, as they coordinate their work and try to get the messy job of threshing done...

Uttar Pradesh·lake

Who is north India is not familiar with those large reri carts of reddish-green water fruit that one gets to buy around the monsoon season and afterwards, along roadside? That is singhara or water chestnut being sold.

Uttar Pradesh·industry · sport

A small town facility to make kids' soft footballs and soft toys : Make in India at its best. Make in Meerut: Kids soft football factory in sped-up motion - A small manufacturing unit in small town India