“monsoon”

monsoon

Enjoy the green visuals accompanied by the patter of raindrops falling on the leaves. Soothing natural ambiance of rain and birds chirping during the monsoon recorded at a farm in Delhi.

music · festival

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He says "Whenever I come home and it's been quite often since then of-course. I feel that I'd never left.

wildlife · birds

'Time to fly children', the mother stork seems to be communicating to the protest calls of the juveniles with almost adult-like bodies except for thir plumage.

wildlife · birds

Monsoons approaching, gray skies and barren trees and a trio of Wire-tailed swallow roosts on it. The birds are small and common in India. The long pair of feathers from the tail of the male is distinct while the female ha a shorter tail.

wildlife · birds

See the intricacies of bird preening up close and in slow motion! A bird cleans its feathers Perching on a dry branch and preening its feathers probably after a light monsoon drizzle, a couple inside their natural tree hollow nest and an in…

wildlife · birds

A single individual of Lesser Cormorant is seen sitting on an aquatic shrub preening itself. The bird is feeling the heat of the monsoon heat.Beak wide open and trying to cool itself down.

hills · forest

Spring-time and it's breeding and mating time for these Kaleej Pheasants at our wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary in the Himalaya.

Global warming has changed weather patterns and caused a huge increase in the number of droughts, floods, cyclones and other such destructive weather conditions. Assam is another such case in point.

crafts

A piece of antique Indian embroidery depicting scenes from the life of the Hindu god Krishna. A Pichhavai of Gopis associated with the monsoon season. India, Deccan, 18th C.

Thailand·industry · river

Agricultural spaces slowly get converted into industrial zones and residential colonies, even as flooded coastal regions remain growing zones for a multitude of agricultural crops.

lake · river

Waders silhouette sunset over the salt pans of Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India. The Sambhar Salt Lake, India's largest inland salt lake, sits 96 km south west of the city of Jaipur (Northwest India) and 64 km north east of Ajmer along Nation…

Haryana·wildlife · birds

One of India's prettiest birds! Indian Pitta or Navrang feeds chicks at its nest, as brood fledges An adult Indian Pitta feeds a chick inside a nest in Gurugram, Haryana, India.

flowers · hills

A field of pink cosmos flowers (Mexican asters) in full bloom in the Himalayas, at 7,100 feet, at a botanical garden and sanctuary.

bazaar

Fresh Singhara (water caltrops) for sale at a local fruit market in RK Puram, New Delhi, India.

monsoon · highway

A rainy night transforms the roads of New Delhi into a canvas of shimmering lights and reflections.

monsoon · highway

Devastating flooding that struck the Kashmere Gate area of Delhi during the historic July 2023 Yamuna flood crisis.

highway · hills

A moment of traffic congestion unfolds along the scenic route from Shella Village to Baghmara, capturing the realities of driving through Meghalaya’s hilly terrain.

village · festival

A festive atmosphere prevails when one village stones another! Team orange at Bagwal festival of Devidhura Champawat, Uttarakhand With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers conve…

festival · village

When one village stones another! Team orange at Bagwal festival of Devidhura Champawat, Uttarakhand With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers converge at the Bagwal Festival gro…

hills · village

A drone captures a stunning aerial view of Ransi village, near Ukhimath in Uttarakhand, revealing its location on a steep mountainside adorned with lush green terraced fields.

aerial · village

Teams from different villages arrive for the stoning festival with stone pelting and throwing of apples and pears.

aerial · temple

A typical plains village in the lower reaches of Kumaon in Uttarakhand, as seen aerially. Rice paddy fields and much greenery pervade the landscape This temple floated down and landed mid-river! Shiv Mandir at Kimtoli village in Champawat,…

wildlife · birds

Male Peafowl face off with each other, go round and round each other, threateningly during breeding season The monsoon season belongs to peafowl, with the males displaying and females laying eggs and rearing their broods.

Maharashtra·monsoon

Tusshar Kapoor speaks on film Golmaal with heavy monsoon rain falling behind him in Mumbai: "She comes to ask for achaar, there is golmaal behind the achar and the girl!" Tusshar Kapoor on film Golmaal