Uttar Pradesh

hills · politics

The backdrop to the birth of Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand) state! It has been an agitation fomenting and fermenting for the past few years in the hills of Uttar Pradesh.

highway · livestock

Progress on a National Highway in north India can get suddenly impeded by a flurry of buffalo carts carrying freshly-cut sugarcane, and heading to the closest sugar factory in Uttar Pradesh state! You simply cannot argue with the buffalos a…

People shop at a roadside utensils shop in the market of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh on the occasion of Dhanteras while a roadside oil lamp selles sells the oil lamps. There are also small and colorful clay sculptures of Gopis and Gods.

monsoon · village

After an afternoon of heavy shower at Singhauli Village in Uttar Pradesh. The lanes in between houses have flooded and the rainwater seeping into the house. A woman is seen draining out water with a plastic bucket.

railway · farmland

A railway level crossing in Uttar Pradesh uses the old fashioned manual gears and levers system, wherein the duty in charge receives a call about an incoming train and switches the levers for the track and opens and closes the gate for traf…

Locks and brass articrafts are manufactured in Aligarh district. The locks of Aligarh is so famous that it is known as 'Tala Nagri'. It is among the very few non-metropolitan cities in India which is famous worldwide for 'Aligarh ka tala'.

dance · ceremony

This video captures a graceful moment from the felicitation ceremony of Hema Malini at Acharya Jialal Vasant Sangeet Niketan, Uttar Pradesh.

aerial

Aerial view of populous but well planned Kanpur City in Uttar Pradesh, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

festival · snow

People are drinking fresh sugarcane juice in Vrindavan during the Holi festival.

ALI SARDAR JAFRI Noted Urdu poet and Gyan Peeth awardee, Ali Sardar Jafri died on the 1st of August 2000, following a protracted illness. He was 86, born in Uttar Pradesh, the poet was a crusader against imperialism and exploitation.

industry · river

Brick kiln factory unit in the middle of wheat fields and a canal in Uttar Pradesh. We have not figured out yet that one of the major sources of winter time air pollution are the thousands of brick kiln units functioning outside the NCR Del…

politics

Members of the Samajwadi party take out a rally on the streets of Uttar Pradesh. They carry party flags and burst crackers openly on the streets. They celebrate the Mahagathbandhan of Congress, SP and BSP during elections in India.

Pandemonium on the streets in Uttar Pradesh after the Hathras incident in 2020. Demonstrators on the streets after the woman was cremated. Police manhandling the demonstrators and are seen using force on the men sitting on the streets.

politics

Indian politicians arrive at BJP's office in Government white Ambassador cars. See Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani come out from the office. George Fernandes, Indian Politician speaks about NDA government.

tractors and trucks laden with sugarcane wait to be weighed and allowed in to sugar factories in Uttar Pradesh. Sugarcane industry is the second largest agro-based industry in India.

farmland

A wheat thresher at work in a field in Uttar Pradesh, busily separating the wheat from the chaff.

A vignettes of morning life in an Indian city. In this case, 1990's Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

industry · river

Brick kiln workers at a brick manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh. The workers use wheel barrows to move bricks that have come out of the foundry with the chimney. They organize the brown baked bricks into neat and organized rows.

dance · music

The Ganga Mahotsav on the banks of the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh celebrates the heritage and culture of India. The festival showcases India through art, performing art, food, textiles, music etc,.

Gazing across at the spiritual city of Varanasi while being rowed along the Ganges. Varanasi / Banaras, is a city on the banks of the Ganges (Ganga) in Uttar Pradesh, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of the state capital, Lucknow.

crafts · bazaar

A skilled artisan from Uttar Pradesh demonstrating the traditional craft of flameworking (lampworking) at Nature Bazaar.

Morning session of the third day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching on Shantideva's "Guide to the Bodhisattva's way of Life" given near the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India, on January…

Morning session of the second day of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's four day teaching on Shantideva's "Guide to the Bodhisattva's way of Life" give near the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India, on January…