“monsoon”

monsoon

Floods have ravaged Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh during the monsoons. Houses and the entire landscape submerged in the murky water. Men at the police station share their ordeal in front of the camera.

monsoon · railway

Residents wade in knee-deep water in their own homes in Rohtas district of Bihar during monsoon floods. The water level reaching the kitchen counters and beds inside the house.

highway · river

The monsoons in 2020 must be horrendous for these families caught on film during the Bihar floods. With the Corona infections looming on their doors and the floods submerging their huts and forcing them out of homes on makeshift rafts.

monsoon · village

When in Nepal remember that summer monsoon comes likes an uninvited guest, the rains can hit you any time of the day. So while trekking in Nepal, do carry a poncho and a rain cover for your bags and cameras both.

monsoon · river

Summer-monsoon, when everything comes to a standstill with the downpour as heavy as can been seen in the video, Nepal experiences this quite often.

Madhya Pradesh·birds

This Spilornis cheela sits in alert mode along a water body at Panna National Park, awaiting its chance at serpentine or other prey in this post-monsoon season. We were not able to show you its lovely uplifted crest in this shot, sadly.

monsoon

This mother plover - a Red-wattled Lapwing, in fact, is sitting over its eggs to protect them from the heavy monsoon downpour. Yet, she does not look to her personal comfort as she could well be sheltering under a tree.

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'.