Meerut

Uttar Pradesh·highway

The automotive and highway / road driving rule in India is that two wheeler drivers and pillion riders must wear a safety helmet.

Uttar Pradesh·monsoon · highway

Monsoon spells wealth and food security in India. The dry states even anticipate it more than the regions near the sea. This is the basis of Indian agriculture.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Up close inside a small scale traditional scissors making unit in Meerut. Sparks flying off the metallic wheels used for sharpening the blades and giving finishing touches to the blades.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Inside Meerut's Gandhi Ashram, a manufacturing unit of local goods, cold-pressed mustard oil extraction from basic mechanical press. A close-up view of mustard seeds pressed for their oil.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

An electrical sewing machine clicks away on black and neon strips of fabric at a sportswear manufacturing unit. This is a sportswear manufacturing unit in one of North India's rapidly growing city of Meerut.

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An Indian worker is filmed at his manufacturing unit in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh making wooden stands for Charpai / charpoy or wooden Indian beds which also involve weaving.

Uttar Pradesh·highway · politics

A truck full of liquid oxygen makes its way to a hospital in the Delhi NCR, for the use of Covid 19 patients on ventilators and requiring oxygen support.

Uttar Pradesh·highway · industry

A red building in a sea of white and green near Garh Road in Meerut stands out not only as a building but as a manufacturing unit. A 360 degree glimpse of the building and surrounding areas.

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Naapi work in a full PPE suit? You got it right! Looks like getting a haircut, a shave from your own local barber is no less than a surgical operation of some sort.

Meerut, Uttar Pradesh·farmland

You know summer is here when mangoes, the highlight of the heat of the plains of India, start ripening on trees. Watch these workers drop and collect basket loads of mangoes at a mango orchard in Meerut.

Uttar Pradesh·highway

Note the huge Eicher truck driving on the wrong side of the road, eating into the opposite lane! Typical chaotic Indian highway traffic! See a horse drawn cart and other typical Indian transport modes along a smaller Meerut access road.

Uttar Pradesh·livestock

Miscalculation of the capacity of the weight to be carried by this buffalo and the result is an unpleasant sight.

Uttar Pradesh·festival · highway

During the Kanwar Yatra on the Meerut–Haridwar highway, thousands of devotees, known as Kanwariyas, walk with devotion and discipline to collect holy Ganga-jal.

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The Shahid Smarak is one of the oldest war memorials built in Meerut. The white marble structure is 30 m high and was built to commemorate the war martyrs of India.

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A sneak peek into a sugar factory in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh after the Corona Lockdown. India is one of the largest consumers of sugar in the world and one of the largest producers.

Uttar Pradesh·ceremony

Weddings in Covid times have taken on a sober even sombre air to them. This sangeet ceremony thus takes place in a rather muted and modestly loud and boisterous fashion, in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh·flowers · highway

Different models of flower beds and pots are display next to a highway in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. Take a quick look at how they are made by small artisans and workers in their own small establishments.

Uttar Pradesh·architecture · river

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

Uttar Pradesh·river

These village boys enjoy the prospect of jumping into the muddy Ganga neher near Meerut, to beat the summer heat on a hot May day...

Uttar Pradesh

Have you ever seen an Ox with such huge horns? You would not want to mess with this fellow, even as he seems busy digging in to a plastic drum with food in it, tethered as he is to a cart by his owner in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh·birds · lake

A snow-white Great Egret (Ardea alba) is filmed preening its feathers and basking in the golden light at sunset in Haiderpur Wetland.

Uttar Pradesh·industry

Uttar Pradesh is one of the sugar-producing states in India and we visit one of the factories in Meerut. Factory workers are seen heating concentrated sugar syrup over a heating plate and making it into solid brown sugary content.

Uttar Pradesh·sport · industry

Cricket is like religion for some in India and the stars their gods. A look inside the manufacture of sporting goods in Meerut.