Odisha

coastline

What a lovely sight when your beach is taken over by wonderful creatures! Rushikuliya river beach is full of rare Olive Ridley Turtles in Odisha Kicking sand in all directions, multiple Olive Ridley Turtles have a massively successful nesti…

wildlife · village

A preening Black headed Oriole, Mango bird or peelak chidiya in an Odisha village: A flash of mango yellow topped with a black head on a tree top.

festival · temple

Jagannath Rath Yatra takes over the roads of South Delhi, crowds of the juggernaut march with discipline, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view.

coastline

In the successful end game as their host country, rare Ridley Turtles breed along pristine Odisha coast sands in India, successfully reach the Bay of Bengal sea to migrate and begin their journey of life.

ceremony

Sitting on the floor, bare foot, and listening to the prayers and discourse, these Hindus absorb the religious feel of the Shubh Janmostav at Aasan Mandir in north India.

People from Orissa celebrate Shubh Janmotsav, with pooja and pravachan, chanting and the joint clashing of hand cymbals. They come and offer their prayers before the idol with marigold malas around and above it.

coastline

When the life giving water itself turns the turtles upside down, along come these good samaritans who help rare Olive Ridley Turtles right themselves on Odisha beach, or they would die within hours.

wildlife · birds

A Black-winged Stilt bird sits on its nest in coastal Odisha, while a couple of Stilts nearby forage for insect feed in knee deep water. The Stilt sits in the hot summer sun, and continuously adjusts the twigs in the nest pile around it.

village · birds

Village blacksmith at work in rural OdishL The repetitive sound is akin to akin to a Coppersmith Barbet's call! The rhythms of India... A village metalsmith or blacksmith creates a large knife made of iron, in Orissa, India.

temple

In a mandir in Orissa, an Odia Hindu priest chants Hindu prayers and mantras at a temple in Odisha, India.

village · farmland

Who would have imagined that these plants yield good old globally-known peanuts? These early summer fields are the site of a peanut harvest by these Oriya village women.

highway · railway

An Army that deploys by train? A massive Indian Army truck convoy loaded and on the move on a train at Jajpur in Odisha: Unusual sight of Maruti Suzuki Gypsies and Stallion trucks as they get re-deployed to an eastern sector.

village · livestock

Pampered goat only eats biscuits in Jajpur village, Odisha: Some human beings don't have it so good!

railway · river

Cuttack rail and road bridges in Odisha look like fancy infrastructure from the west, but it's our good old Orissa! Not so, but they certainly look like an alluvial fan of dis-tributaries emanating from the sands of the Mahanadi and enterin…

river · highway

Large dumpers pick and drop sand from the riverbed of the Mahanadi and onto trucks standing nearby. Is this government licensed sand mining or something more off the radar? Truck loads of river sand are shipped off from the river bed.

railway · highway

Cuttack rail and road bridges in Odisha look like fancy infrastructure from the west, but it's our good old Orissa! Not so, but they certainly look like an alluvial fan of dis-tributaries emanating from the sands of the Mahanadi and enterin…

railway · aerial

Not so, but they certainly look like an alluvial fan of dis-tributaries emanating from the sands of the Mahanadi and entering the main river's flow.

aerial · railway

2.7 kilometer long Mahanadi bridge in Cuttack, Odisha: Aerial view of engineering marvel from Orissa. Mahanadi bridge as seen aerially, from the air.

wildlife · birds

With a Black-headed Oriole calling, this Cormorant hunts for insects underwater in a pond covered with water plants, around a village in Orissa.