“monsoon”

wildlife · birds

White-eye bird at its nest at wildfilmsindia city office in South Delhi - Zesterops palpebrosa.

ceremony · river

Women from the Indian heartland states sit on the river bank and pray to the sun god, singing together. They apply tika or vermillion to their own foreheads. Men prepare fruit offerings in baskets.

highway

What makes the House Crow so splendiferous that it is known as Corvus splendens? It is a smart bird all right, and this couple have discovered a safe nesting spot along a flyover and road in New Delhi, thus making it the home for their broo…

ceremony · river

Men prostate themselves on the ground, in an abandonment of ego, while women stand in freezing cold post monsoon waters in the polluted Jamuna river in Delhi, coconuts in hand, for the sun god worship Chhat Puja festival prayers.

aerial · temple

Mukhba temple priests prepare to despatch the Gangotri idol to the Gangotri temple prior to the doors or kapath opening in end April 2025, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

highway · railway

Southern Highways and an Indian Railway traffic intersection in Karnataka, on a rainy day in the Western Ghats. Driving on a wet highway through a forested area, with buffalos walking the same road from a nearby village.

wildlife · birds

Red Avadavat or Munia seen in Delhi city: Munias were popular cage birds, fortunately now banned for the captive bird trade.

Madhya Pradesh·birds

Crested Serpent Eagle in Maharashtra: Spilornis cheela has impressive concentration as it scouts for prey This Spilornis cheela sits in alert mode along a water body at Panna National Park, awaiting its chance at serpentine or other prey in…

Uttarakhand·flowers

Garden Dahlias have been growing run-wild at our Jabbarkhet Estate in the Western Himalaya since the British era, when garden planted by the Brits. With summer, their rhizomes come alive, and dormant seeds start to sprout.

highway · politics

A Kanwariya truck with loud speakers, on Delhi's roads: Political patronage has given kawars a voice and funding, adding to traffic woes, noise levels and nuisance value, all based on what must have been an innocent and difficult pilgrimage…

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…

architecture

The atmosphere is a buzz of swarms of locusts and the buzzing sound in the urban areas. High rise buildings and the surrounding areas are full of locust. Locals are seen trying to scare the locusts away by banging utensils.

farmland · river

A vast plain of green grass in the Sahyadri range in Maharashtra covered in mist seen from the sky. An enclosed area of green paddy fields lush and flourishing in the monsoon.

highway

A huge rockfall took place, thanks to the expansion of the east-west highway in Bhutan. This stretch leads into Bumthang, and rocks fell and covered the road one monsoon afternoon.

wildlife · monsoon

A One-horned Rhinoceros calf in Assam's Kaziranga is trapped in flooded waters during the monsoons. Locals are seen crossing the floodwaters with the calf on a wooden canoe and taken to the wildlife rehabilitation center.

hills · river

Late monsoon cloud cover sheds ample rainfall to the already rich silt islands and river-banks of the Brahmaputra valley, leading to a super rich agrarian bowl in Assam.

Madhya Pradesh·forest · river

One of the most beautiful waterfalls in India, 'Raneh falls' lies on the 'Ken river' in Panna, Madhya Pradesh. The rock where the waterfall is formed is 'Granite'.

river · architecture

The iron bridge is festooned in Buddhist prayer flags, while the brown monsoon-flooding Indus River flows a short gap below the bridge, as our crew drive up to Matho Monastery in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir state, India.

monsoon

A scene at the residence of District Magistrate in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh during the monsoon floods. The entry gate closed and water halfway up to the building. A resident can be heard saying the DM has run away due to the floods.

monsoon · highway

The former constituency of Rahul Gandhi, Amethi is flooded in the monsoon rains. Vehicles on the road speeding like a jet ski over the floodwater. Residents wading in the floodwater like its a fishing pond.

river · monsoon

Floods in the monsoon are a common natural phenomenon in India during the rainy months. This is another sight of the dangers of flooding in Uttar Pradesh.

festival · flowers

The dancing troupe from Orissa perform Orissi( Classical dance form) on the festival of "Phool Wallon Ki Sair".

birds · flowers

The herald of Indian monsoons and the spectacular metallic purple sheen of the male Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus ) has worn off.

temple

It looks creepy especially with the monsoon rains pattering the thin roofs of this temple in Maharashtra. A square stepwell with a tall structure towards the end. The temple looks unused in a long time.