Rajasthan

temple · village

The city of Jalore is lined with vibrant houses, temples and sleepy dogs on a lazy afternoon in a village in Rajasthan. Famed for its numerous quarries, Jalore has risen to prominence for producing some of the finest granite in the world.

dance

Loor dance a Rajasthani dance starts a month before Holi and ends with Holika's destruction. It is a female dance.

festival

More than a hundred men gather at a palace for a celebration of the festival of colours 'Holi' in Bhavrani. Most of the men wear their traditional attire Kurta and Dhoti along with turban and some wear 'Kurta pajama'.

People from various villages invited to Bhavrani for the Holi celebration. It is an after Holi get together. This gathering only includes men as in Rajasthan men and women gather separately for social gatherings.

village · farmland

An elderly farmer in Rajasthan operates a VMT Galvanised Animal Straw Feeder to remove dust and debris from wheat straw (turi or bhusa). He is dressed in a red turban with a white kurta and dhoti, typical rural attire in the region.

wildlife · birds

A colony of Painted Storks perched on tree. Painted storks at their nesting site in Keoladeo National Park of Bharatpur, Rajasthan. The painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family.

village

Mr. Ajay Singh, Former Indian High Commissioner to Fiji and former Lok Sabha member for Agra District, speaking at the inauguration program of Mohini Grameen Vikas Kendra in Rajasthan.

forest · railway

Indian Blackbuck antelopes lock their horns in the Tal Chappar region in Rajasthan, India. The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) is an ungulate species of antelope native to the Indian subcontinent that has been classified as near threatened…

forest · wildlife

Tree Pies (a species of Magpie) enjoy the ticks that they find on Wild Boars whereas the pigs enjoy getting rid of their external parasites - a symbiotic marriage made in heaven! The Sariska Tiger Reserve is an Indian national park located…

village · farmland

Sonkhaliya, a hitherto unknown hamlet, 40 kms from Ajmer district in Rajasthan, has in recent years captured the imagination of birders for the two of the most sought after species in the oriental region - Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indic…

wildlife · birds

Thousands of Demoiselle Cranes (Anthropoides virgo), locally known as Kurjan, Koonj or Kurja, gather in the skies over Rajasthan, India, during their annual winter migration.

livestock · desert

A rural landscape in Rajasthan, India, shows a male Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) with a juvenile grazing on dry grassland. Another nilgai, commonly known as the blue bull, is visible moving in the background.

wildlife · lake

Sambhar Lake, located in Rajasthan, is India’s largest inland saltwater lake and a vital habitat for migratory flamingos.

wildlife · birds

A stunning sight unfolds at Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, as flamingos fly gracefully across the sky and walk through the shallow saline waters of India’s largest inland salt lake.

wildlife · birds

At Sambhar Salt Lake in Rajasthan, innumerable flamingos take to the air, filling the sky with sweeping formations of pink and white wings.

music

It was 150 glorious years of the Indian police, on the occasion of which bands of various State police and paramilitary forces staged the Great Indian Police Band Show.

The women wear ghoonghat or pardah as they have covered their faces to not be seen. This is archival footage from 1980's Rajasthan.

village

wildlife · birds

Thousands of wild Demoiselle cranes flying in slow motion over India's desert state, Rajasthan.

wildlife · forest

Mother leopard circles the waterhole at a reserve in Rajasthan while the cub hides in the under shrubs.

festival · dance

Women smeared in red with covered faces play and dance on the colourful festival of Holi in the village of Bhavrani, Rajasthan.

hills

This lone Langur monkey hides from its troop and enjoys every morsel of its food. While its troop soaks sun on the hills of Jawai in Rajasthan.

See how its very pointed, targeted and sensitive ear lobes try to pin-point sounds from within the grass.