“monsoon”

Haryana·monsoon · highway

After a spell of heavy rainfall, several areas of Gurugram have been left waterlogged, causing traffic jams and commuter woes.

hills · river

Bistorta flowers and the Jallandhri Garh stream above Harsil: Himalayan autumn in brilliant colours.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Pretty little Green Pigeons feed on monsoon fruiting Verbena - fig type berries at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet sanctuary in the Himalaya, around Landour.

Uttarakhand

Nepali women eat black ripe juicy Berberis or kashmal / kingod seasonal berries at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet, during the monsoon season when they ripen. Birds equally enjoy these berries.

Mangoes are plucked from our trees in June, at the beginning of the monsoon season, when the fruit has turned suitably plump with the first few showers. Koel calls rent the air.

flowers · monsoon

Lotus flower has a work of art within it, in the form of the formative seed pod developing within Pretty even as it dies, the lotus is something else! What a delicate lotus pink, with finer shades - No wonder the Kamal is India's national…

Madhya Pradesh·highway

Sellers offer local sabzi / subzi offerings along the wet monsoon road-side, even cutting and preparing some of them such as the lemons. Raw mangos are also sold, to be used in achars and chutneys. Jackfruit or kathal or also being sold.

Uttarakhand·river · hills

An overview of the trek to Roopkund Lake through the meadows of Ali and Bedni buggyal in the Garhwal Himalaya.

coastline

Frothing waves from the Bay of Bengal running towards the Odisha coast. Fishing trawlers can be seen at the horizon. The monsoon tide bringing in waves to the eastern coast of India.

Uttar Pradesh·bus · aerial

The old world town of the Mutiny of 1857 melds perfectly into the urban conglomerate of 2020, and one of Uttar Pradesh's prime cities and one of India's fastest growing residential and manufacturing bases.

monsoon · highway

Truck braves Kerala flood water in order to transport victims to relief camps. 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…

monsoon

Flash flood leaves no room for people to stay indoor as water gushes everywhere in Kerala. 220,000 people left homeless and thousands trapped in southern Indian state after unusually heavy rain which led to infamous Kerala floods 2018.

flowers

A garden slug seems full from its garden vegetable diet as it marauds in the soft mud in monsoon. Slimy skin with mud and its tentacles out in search of some more food? Notice the shiny mucous it leaves behind as it moves along.

Uttarakhand·forest

At the Land's End point, this deodar tree is standing alone with mist covering the backdrop during monsoon.

politics

While the action taken report on the JPC findings which went into the multi-million rupees securities and banking fraud was used by the opposition to paralyze the parliament monsoon session.

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.

monsoon · river

The recent flash floods in the otherwise drought-prone area of Gujarat's Saurashtra region has not only hindered human lives, but also killed eight lions and a number of other animals like blue bulls, spotted deers, etc.

flowers · industry

Workers with baskets on their back returning from tea garden after plucking tea leaves in Assam.

farmland

Our team of field staff at the wildfilmsindia Pari Tibba Estate in Motidhar start to collect the rajma crop once the monsoon season has ended, and the rains have mostly ceased. They go from vine to vine collecting the kidney bean pods.

Gasping in the hot and humid 45 degrees of a New Delhi summer day, just as the monsoons are about to hit, this newly-born Lapwing chick doesn't know what has hit it! Fresh out of the egg, with its white egg-tooth visible at the tip of its b…

Uttarakhand·highway

Take an Uttar Pradesh highway slow motion drive through the Indian heartland, from Meerut to Muzaffarnagar and through the mofussil small towns of UP up north, and heading in the direction of Haridwar and Dehradun.

ceremony · river

Sequential prostration and walking to approach the river bank. The man takes up this routine while his wife follows along on foot, wearing a red saree.

highway · old town

Safety be damned. Men sleep on the divider between Ring Road lanes, sleeping off their tiredness, despite the humid heat of a Delhi monsoon day in August. An entire labour crew seems to be asleep under a flyover.

ceremony · river

Sitting by the river, offering fruit to the sun god and singing together, these women celebrate the Chatt festival.