“monsoon”

Uttarakhand·forest · monsoon

Mist and clouds flowing across the mountains at Jabbarkhet Misty monsoon rain-forest-like forest at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet forests around Mussoorie

forest · hills

Male and female Kalij Pheasant couple root around in the forest leafy under storey, at Motidhar sanctuary of wildfilmsindia, with the red lappet of the male matching the dropped Rhododendron arboreum petals, in terms of colour tonality.

monsoon

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 deaths in the first few weeks of the disaster itself.

Uttarakhand·flowers · farmland

Cosmos flowers have run-wild from British times and continue to flower in the late autumn season, around the fields and open spaces at the Jabbarkhet Estate of wildfilmsindia in Landour-Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers · forest

These Dahlia flowers are competing with wild Himalayan flowers and cover by seeding and spreading themselves in the wild, as garden escapes dating back to British times.

Maharashtra·highway · flowers

A sea of cosmos next to the highway towards Pune in full bloom in early autumn. The flowers are intense orange and hence named Orange Cosmos or Klondike Cosmos because of the shape of the flower.

Maharashtra·railway · hills

Talk of narrow gauge - see the width of hose quaint train tracks! All thanks to Sir Adamji Peerbhoy, it seems! He was the Founder of the Matheran Light Railway.

Bulldozer clears the road after landslide on the way to Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. The entire Uttarakhand comprises of unstable mountains that are constantly in churn, growing, changing and getting altered.

West Bengal·industry · school

School books, enrollment cards for exams, school bags and shoes - vignettes of destruction and loss at the site of the Darjeeling landslides of 2015's monsoon season.

hills

What steady focus and concentration, this caterpillar chows down on a ginger leaf, meticulously trying to finish the leaf and damage the plan, to ensure its own existence! What species of caterpillar would this be? A butterfly one, perhaps?…

hills · railway

This ladybird sucks on some plant sap and goes about exploring our vegetable patch in the monsoon season, as it seems to have missed the spring-time train to the Himalaya! Lady birds are supposed to migrate in large flocks to the glacial re…

Rajasthan

A snake eats a frog on camera at Jawai in Rajasthan. A Checkered Keelback Snake eats a frog in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, as seen in this rare view in the middle of a late monsoon night... Drama from Wild India, truly.

highway

Macaques are the largest reason for water tanks getting damaged in India. They break the lids and get inside to drink and bathe, often getting trapped and drowned in the water.

river · architecture

Sights of possible dangers and destruction after heavy rains hit Karnataka in the monsoon. An overflowing dam submerges the walkway across the dam.

monsoon

NDRF personnel braving the weather conditions in a flooded location in Telangana during the 2020 monsoon floods. Rescue personnel use ropes to guide the evacuees towards the other side of the flooded area.

highway · monsoon

The weight of this 12 wheel truck has brought down a bridge and the flood waters rush through... Telangana Floods 2020 Incessant monsoon rains left many places flooded and overflowing in Telangana amid the Corona Pandemic.

monsoon · bus

Imagine how much rain New Delhi has received for these buses and trucks to have gone under water at the Tughlaqabad metro station! Yes, it's been a fecund monsoon this year...

Rajasthan·wildlife

A peacock without his monsoon glory of breeding display feathers is like a king without a crown, a tiger without its stripes, a cowboy without his boots.

Assam·livestock

After a long day of strolling alone on this huge mass of plane land amidst Kaziranga National Park, this lonely Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) meets a herd of friendly elephants and egrets.

flowers

A pair of goat kids feed on corn leaves while people converse. Fresh cucumbers hang down from the creeper as insects sit on the leaves in Champawat. It is a town famous among tourist in Uttarakhand in India.

Bhutan·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.

monsoon · river

Severe flooding that affected New Delhi on July 13, 2023, when the Yamuna River reached its highest level in more than four decades.

festival · music

Phool Walon Ki Sair is a historic annual festival held in Mehrauli, Delhi, symbolizing communal harmony and the city’s Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.

highway · hills

Enjoy a peaceful daytime drive in Meghalaya, where a smooth two-lane road stretches through rolling green hills under a bright blue sky filled with soft white clouds.