Uttarakhand

festival · hills

More a male bonding fest and a cultural practice than a fishing festival, but riverine plunder, nonetheless. Every fish caught is proudly displayed, even if it is still and should have been left to breed.

flowers · hills

See how the pollen has amply dusted off on the back of this beetle which feeds within a Crocus or Rain Lily bloom at the wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum in Uttarakhand.

farmland · hills

How green is my valley! One wonders if these green rice paddy fields will be turned into grotesque buildings with dhabas and hotels, homes for plains-people and locals alike, all in the form of unplanned rash and random developments, like t…

forest

A Green-backed Tit flies to its nest-hole in the knot of an old oak tree, feeds its chicks, and darts out almost immediately after, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills · forest

With Himalayan Tree Pies and a melange of Thrushes calling out at our wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Pari Tibba Estate in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, this Small Niltava female calls out in her own harsh trilling voice, but mostly looks…

hills · flowers

Anemone in a deep pink, Arum Lilies by the thousands, daffodils of many kinds, with Thrushes calling in our forested bowl. Peoniflorum tulips start to bloom in spring at the Pari Tibba botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia in Uttarakhand.

snow · hills

Heavy snowfall occurs at wildfilmsindia estate and forests at Motidhar Pari Tibba Estate and Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand: Himalayan winter wonderland indeed! As seen from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens, the Dehradun - Dhnaolti r…

snow · forest

Heavy snowfall occurs at wildfilmsindia estate and forests at Motidhar Pari Tibba Estate and Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand: Himalayan winter wonderland indeed! As seen from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens, the Dehradun - Dhnaolti r…

hills

A bathroom being fitted out with Jaquar fittings and fixtures fitted in, at a mountain home being constructed in Uttarakhand. The concealed WC water holding feature is being unboxed, to be affixed into the wall.

hills

A stunning winter Himalayan sunset where the sun appears to shine like a colourful gemstone and the sky gets lit in a thousand glowing red, yellow and auburn shades, as seen from the ridge-top Iris cottage at wildfilmsindia's Himalayan est…

hills · snow

View of the peaks on the Naga-Nelang divide from high in the Chhaiyan Gad valley (Kalidhang, Chirbas, Matri, Twins, Chaturbhuj). What a pointed conical peak! This is as viewed from a high ridge in the Bandarpunch valley.

hills · snow

View from a tele-lens of Bandarpunch’s summit with its corniced summit and lowest ice fall, and finally across the Bhagirathi valley a panorama from Srikantha to Gangotri peaks and Jaonli.

hills · village

A top view of Sukhi in Garhwal Himalaya in late autumn. A village nestled above the Ganga Valley towards the Harsil valley. Village women drying pulses in the autumn sun. Blue skies and white clouds floating past the high mountain peaks.

hills · river

A pair of frogs mating at our wildfilmsindia Pari Tibba Estate in the Himalaya, around our trout ponds. Help us identify the species of frog we're seeing here at an altitude of 6500 feet in Uttarakhand.

hills

See how the glaciers of the Himalaya have gouged out the valleys and deepened them, through abrasion and abrasive action over eons.

hills · highway

Chamba is a gateway town situated on a crossroads col that has roads leading in to it from Mussoorie and Dhanolti on one side, Rishikesh and Narendranagar from another and a higher road leading up to Ranichauri where M. L.

hills · forest

Puidikota / Puidikoda Estonia pine wood false ceiling being installed for insulation and aesthetics, in a Himalayan home in Uttarakhand.

village · aerial

Flying over scenic village Bhuki at left and Bhangeli village on the right side in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Ganga flows down towards Dharali village can be seen. Bhuki village is surrounded by pine trees and lush green mountains.

farmland

Rajma beans sprout and start to grow into climbing vines in the fields at wildfilmsindia Motidhar estate in Uttarakhand. We planted them in June 2021 and in July 2021, they have nicely sprouted and are preparing to start climbing as well.

monsoon · river

The entire course and character of the Ganga river was changed in those few hours, and the fluvial geomorphology of the river valley was altered forever, with heavy siltation and deposition along the banks, and deepening and shallowing of w…

monsoon · river

Gange has swollen to danger mark dangerous flooding levels, temples have been submerged to their roof-top levels and flood warnings have been issued as the river eternal flowers brown and angry, full and fast - furious too - like a wide oce…

hills · river

It's been many years since the tragic Uttarakhand Floods. However, are we any better prepared for such flooding? When the next flooding incident does hit the Himalaya, will we be better prepared or even marginally ready for it? The worst of…

flowers · hills

While cultivated cherry trees bloom in spring, the wild Prunus of the western Himalaya flowers in early winter, to a glorious showing of pink and deep pink. The next tree is a Spathodium or Tulip Tree.