Meerut

Uttar Pradesh

Who can resist the charms of a garam bowl of Gajar ka halwa or Gajar pak? India's sweet carrot dessert trumps most others and is a welcome addition to a cold winter's day, at any time of day or night.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Rewari is a hard candy popular during the festive season of Lohri and Makar Sankranti in January. Our crew visited this factory in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh where everything is done manually.

Uttar Pradesh·highway · bazaar

Cows in the middle of the street, vendors on the sidewalk, cars and other vehicles honking away but nothing alarming by Indian standards.

Uttar Pradesh·river · sport

A group of local boys dive into a river in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, during a recreational swimming session. The boys take turns jumping from the riverbank into the water and swimming near the shore.

Uttar Pradesh

Protesting against Supreme Court’s March 20 judgment on SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, the Dalit groups and many political parties have called ‘Bharat Bandh’ on April 2, 2018.

Uttar Pradesh·highway

What traffic chaos in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state in north India. The traffic seems to have a collective mind of its own, with each transport type following its own rules (or lack of them thereof!).

Uttar Pradesh·farmland · village

Uttar Pradesh kisan (yes, these are real farmers who sow and yield harvests, and not sit and protest by highways) log hard at work in their aalu ki khetis, extracting spuds from the ground during spring-time potato harvest.

Uttar Pradesh·sport · industry

A manufacturing unit in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh in action making sports clothing. We take a look at the activities inside the manufacturing unit which is using electric cloth cutting machine to cut the fabric which is already marked with line…

Meerut, Uttar Pradesh·highway

यदि आप इनमें से एक बल्ला खरीदना चाहते हैं, तो हमें लिखें और हमारे स्थानीय 'मेक इन इंडिया' खेल निर्माण उद्योग का समर्थन करें! उत्तर प्रदेश के मेरठ में क्रिकेट बैट बनाने वाली एक इकाई को चालू हालत में देखें। भारत में क्रिकेट एक धर्म की तरह है…

Uttar Pradesh·festival

Holi is celebrated in North India as a festival to welcome spring and is also called the Festival of Colours.

Uttar Pradesh·lake

A Water Hyacinth Removal machine gets to work at Haiderpur Wetland in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Employees at the wetland known for hosting migratory and resident bird species are seen at work with the water body covered in Hyacinth.

Uttar Pradesh·farmland

Heavy machinery at work at a sugarcane farm in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh in the winters. Harvesting sugarcane in full swing and loading the harvested cane onto carriages pulled by tractors.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Rewari is a hard candy popular during the festive season of Lohri and Makar Sankranti in January. Our crew visited this factory in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh where everything is done manually.

Uttar Pradesh

It is practice at the nets, for these young boys and a girl as they alternately bat and bowl to each other, during a session in Meerut.

Uttar Pradesh·village · railway

What a perfect vision of a rural village in India - greenery, fecund agriculture, clean air and water, great transportation, rural roads and railways, and a vibrant rural economy as well.

Uttar Pradesh·highway

Sourcing water from a bucket which she has filled from a nearby hand pump, a woman carries out her household's laundry out in the open, and on a street side in Meerut, in the Delhi NCR.

Uttar Pradesh·bazaar · festival

Stalls on the streets of Meerut with colourful Rakhis or threads for sale as the Raksha Bandhan festival approaches. Shutters of most business establishments are closed due to the Coronavirus lockdown.

Uttar Pradesh·festival

Devotees chant mantras and devotional songs to Radha and Krishna during the celebration of Holi in Meerut. Amid rising Corona infection cases, Hindu devotees welcome spring with the Festival of Colours or Holi.

Uttar Pradesh·sport

Cricket bats are made in a small town industry in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. See how blocks of willow wood brought in from Kashmir are shaped and fashioned into rough bats that are then further shaped, fine-tuned and treated into the smooth fin…

Uttar Pradesh·industry

A young man at his carpentry outlet in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh is back to work after the Corona lockdown. Small factories in India are now back to work and looking forward to making their way back to normalcy.

Uttar Pradesh·temple · highway

This is said to be the cleanest temple in Meerut with two colourfully-decked-up idols of Radha and Krishna. Temple is far from city traffic, it is a calm place for meditation in from of Radha Krishna statue.

Uttar Pradesh·bus · aerial

Who would have thought Meerut was such a green and smart looking city, at least when seen from the air? The massive bus stand looks efficient and spacious for so many buses, as well.

Uttar Pradesh·highway

This is something natural in India where locals just walk on the streets while cars are still running. The traffic cop is also least bothered and there are no zebra crossings in sight.