“monsoon”

temple · monsoon

Take a virtual walk around the Lonad Shiv Temple in Thane, Maharashtra. Unkempt, dilapidated and with dried up vegetation growth on the pillars and the rock carvings. Algal blooms on the walls inside the temple.

Panna, Madhya Pradesh·forest · river

Panna, a district lying on the north-east region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, sits on active diamond mines and is surrounded by rolling meadows with evergreen trees, colourful rocks, hills and breathtaking waterfalls.

Uttarakhand·hills · school

The plains of Dehra dun and beyond the Shivaliks, the towns of Roorkee and Saharanpur, can often be seen from Landour, after a good shower has washed away the pollutants in the air! See the valley of Dehra dun glisten after the rains! As on…

Bhutan·hills · monsoon

Jomolhari - The mountain (ri) of the Goddess (lha) Jomo, can be seen from Jele-la (la or pass) that connects Paro and Ha in Bhutan. It is also spelled as Cheli la, Jele la or Chele la.

hills

Jomolhari - The mountain (ri) of the Goddess (lha) Jomo, can be seen from Jele-la (la or pass) that connects Paro and Ha in Bhutan. It is also spelled as Cheli la, Jele la or Chele la.

lake · river

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 National Highway 8 in Rajasthan.

highway · monsoon

See a microcosm of life in Delhi on a monsoon day in July 2012. Heavy rains in Delhi slow down the traffic and give commuters a hard time navigating flooded streets.

aerial · desert

A sweeping aerial view near Yaya Tso showcases the vast, rugged terrain of Ladakh. The landscape is dominated by towering barren mountains and an expansive valley floor, likely a dry or seasonal riverbed shaped by glacial and monsoon runoff…

hills · aerial

Laitlum Canyon and Village in Meghalaya showcase a dramatic landscape of steep, rolling hills blanketed in lush green vegetation and scattered large rocks.

festival · village

With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers converge at the Bagwal Festival grounds in Devidhura Champawat, for the stone pelting fight, to the chanting of religious texts and lin…

festival · village

Through the shifting monsoon mists one comes across an otherwise enchanting Himalayan village with a strange story to tell each season during the time of the rakhi festival.

Approaching the water channel quietly, this man hopes to not disturb the fish, as he casts his net out into the water. The monsoon waters flow brown and deep around him.

river · industry

Sand mining and river bed stone collection are both illegal in India. They deprive the river of its natural course of flow, and create pockets and gaps that then harbour monsoon flood waters and then lead to irregularities in its flow.

Uttarakhand·hills

On a winter's say, the sun drops behind mountain clouds, to presage a post monsoon dusk, while the cicadas call, as seen from Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie

politics · monsoon

Rafts used by government rescue personnel for relief operations during Kerala floods. India’s southern state of Kerala suffered its worst monsoon flooding in a century, with more than one million people displaced, and more than 400 reported…

hills · highway

The Himalayan range is unstable, young and growing, so landslides are a frequent occurrence, especially during the monsoon season when water percolates the bedrock and lubricates it.

flowers

A group of green caterpillar with black heads are seen circling around a leaf in a vegetable garden in Delhi. This has been filmed during the monsoon of 2020. Help us identify the caterpillar.

Uttar Pradesh·river · aerial

An aerial of Varanasi city can be seen along the Ganga river. The city of Varanasi, or Banaras, is situated along the banks of the river Ganga, in Uttar Pradesh, as a result of which, it is under the permanent threat of flooding.

Himachal Pradesh

A pleasant residential area on the true left bank of the Beas in Manali. As its monsoon season, the clouds are floating near the surface and the forest looks lush green.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · wildlife

Panna, a district lying on the north-east region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, sits on active diamond mines and is surrounded by rolling meadows with evergreen trees, colourful rocks, hills and breathtaking waterfalls.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · wildlife

Panna, a district lying on the north-east region in the state of Madhya Pradesh, sits on active diamond mines and is surrounded by rolling meadows with evergreen trees, colourful rocks, hills and breathtaking waterfalls.

Uttar Pradesh·bus

There is a strange sense of order in this image of urban congestion and crowding in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state.

Guwahati, Assam·river · farmland

A beautiful aerial view of monsoon Asia - the rich rice bowl of north-east India's state of Assam, richly fed by the silt coming down from the Himalaya, in the Brahmaputra river (which often resembles an ocean, as it is so large and wide!).…

Uttarakhand·flowers

This lovely green tipped yellow flowering water lily grows at our Motidhar Estate in Mussoorie, at Pari Tibba, and delivers lovely monsoon time blooms, despite the cold!