Odisha

Digging into the soil and wallowing in a pool of brown muddy water! Life is good for these little piggies with their piglet brood. Even the tiny piggies are adept first time swimmers, it seems...

lake

Squealing piggies hang out by the pond: pigs play in Orissa, even as a male tries to mount a not-so-receptive female, with multiple piglets all about. Wow - do those pigs breed and multiply!

village

Brand new tractors and bull dozers trundle into a sleepy Odiya town, as development, roads and infrastructure come to rural India. Tractors ply on village roads in Orissa: Development reaches rural India - Bob the Builder comes to town

dance · music

Odiya Women dance off in an energetic Sambalpuri dance from Orissa, with much percussion drumming by the men.

Residents of Kendrapara and nearby areas at the Odisha coast take shelter in Municipal flood shelter after Cyclone Amphan in May 2020. National Disaster Response Force personnel are in action on the ground.

politics · railway

With a posse of security guards in tow, and to the chants of the pandits and pujaris, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw attends the Rath Yatra Jagannath Mandir Hauz Khas H represents Orissa in the Rajya Sabha.

birds · wildlife

Jungle Babblers preen each other cutely, pecking each other's faces, behind the ears and removing ticks, lice and other parasites.

A sunset time-lapse in Odisha shows the sun slowly dipping toward the horizon, painting the sky with shades of orange, pink, and gold. The clouds drift gently as the light changes.

temple · bazaar

Ambassador cars on the roads of Puri town in Odisha / Orissa. Sun Temple in Puri in the 1990's: Archival footage before the town became crowded and touristy.

People are eating langar at Jagannath Mandir on Krishna Janmashtami. A gathering of devotees at Jagannath Mandir for the Langar on the occasion of Lord Krishna Janmashtami.

festival · temple

Pandit performing Aarti at Jagannath Temple during the Rath Yatra festival, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi. A crowd of devotees at Jagannath Temple to participate in Rath Yatra.

wildlife · 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…

coastline · bus

Ear cleaner plies his trade on Puri beach in Odisha, cleaning ears sitting on sandy shore of Bay of Bengal Wearing a distinctive red cloth cap worn by all ear-cleaners, this ear-cleaner looks for clients amongst people waiting for their bus…

coastline

Pristine turtle beaches of Odisha: Gahirmatha and Rushikuliya host the spectacle of nesting Olive Ridley Turtles Magical sight of Olive Ridley Turtles by the tens of thousands hatching and heading out to sea, on instinct Hundreds of Olive R…

coastline · aerial

Turtle beach in Odisha: Aerial view of magical night when hundreds of thousands of Ridley turtles hatch and make their way into the Bay of Bengal by daybreak! Turtle baby hatchlings emerge from their sandy home, and run towards the Bay of B…

coastline

Talk of perfect crab sandy camouflage! What crab species would this be? A spider-like crab digs in the sands along the Odisha coast of the Bay of Bengal, at Rushikuliya beach.

coastline

Fish laid out to dry in the dessicating winter sun of Gopalpur-on-sea, Orissa: Women and rake up the masses of fish and organize and sort them for sale. What a neat and clean sun-dried work environment! No stinky fish market this...

boats · coastline

Gopalpur-on-Sea Fish jetty in Orissa, with blue boats galore, in stunning aerial view of Oriya seaboard town, along the Bay of Bengal. Trucks await on the plains beyond, and hundreds of tonnes of fish dry out in the early summer sun.

coastline · aerial

Olive Ridley Turtle returns to the Bay of Bengal, as tourists disturb it on Rushikulya Beach in Odisha These are the hallowed waters were hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley Turtles have just laid their eggs in the sands.

coastline · industry

Crowded Puri beach in Odisha is a sight from the sky: thousands mill around on clean Orissa coastal beach, along the Bay of Bengal. Boats and water scooters entertain tourists.

river · industry

An old brick structure stands in front of the Odisha state Maritime Museum in Cuttack, with large iron cannons at the front, in Orissa.

A happy proud sight for a simian mum! With Kingfishers calling, this little every-day family drama unfolds within a pack of langur monkeys, at a village in Orissa.