“monsoon”

flowers · monsoon

Fresh bloom of Balsam breathing in the moist air of monsoon. An unidentified purple flower with thin stalks growing among reeds. A cluster of Vinca flowers in purple thriving among garden grasses at our wilderness Orchard.

Uttarakhand·industry · monsoon

Near the Tehri dam, one can still see vestigaes of the Uttarakhand floods that ravaged this valley of the Ganges some years back.

river · forest

The red-base jezebel butterfly (Delias pasithoe) is found from Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh, the hills of the Northeast of India. It flies from lower hills to 2,100m from February to March and July to December.

flowers

A Garden Orb Weaver spider sits on a flower leaf unfazed by the singing wasp hovering around it. A white hairy caterpillar nibbling on the fresh shoots of a garden flower. A couple of Wandering Glider dragonfly perched on small dry twigs.

Outside our house in Delhi, this Wolf Snake appeared and caught hold of the regular Indian urban chhipkalli or House Gecko.

Kerala·wildlife · flowers

The panther or leopard is not a common sight in the Nilgiris and Western Ghats mountains around Munnar in Kerala.

highway

After a fresh spell of monsoon rains, vehicles plying on the AIIMs Road are stuck in the usual Delhi traffic grind. Motorists take shelter underneath the flyover with few children playing around.

Haryana·highway · monsoon

With rains every other day for more than a week, the Gurugram Highway is also waterlogged and blockages in the middle of the road.

Himachal Pradesh·river · monsoon

Rivers impregnated by the monsoon rains in the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The overflowing river in its course takes a Maruti 800 and a tractor carriage on its course. A panning view of the river taking everything with it.

Maharashtra·monsoon · railway

Sights of the floods in Mumbai during the Monsoon of 2020. Pedestrians in rainjackets are seen in the middle of the flooded street. Flooded railway tracks and platforms disturbed normal life in the most populated city in India.

monsoon · industry

Diligent ASHA workers, and medical professionals braving the floodwaters during monsoons in Assam. The health workers are seen with boxes of medical as they row in wooden canoes, or walk in the floodwaters.

Houses in the rural areas affected by the monsoon floods are filmed submerged in water with only the roofs peeking out of the water.

monsoon · river

Viewer caution recommended - May be of a graphic nature. Out of the 51 districts in Madhya Pradesh, 23 are flooded while in total 33 have received above average rainfall.

monsoon

Floods in Assam has left 23 of the 35 districts of the State under water, forcing lakhs of people to take shelter in relief camps. Almost 80 per cent of Kaziranga National Park, home to the one-horned rhinoceros, is submerged under water.

forest · wildlife

Two wild dogs engage in playful banter in the lush monsoon vegetational profusion of a central Indian forest. The two dholes have a light caramel - gold colouring and their tails are tipped with black.

wildlife · birds

See the shy sex of the Keol species. Even the male Koel cuckoo is more often seen streaking across the sky, with a pair of crows in hot pursuit, but the female is hardly ever seen, and when it is seen, it is often mistaken for a baaz or a S…

coastline · boats

A couple of fishermen are seen in their fishing boat on the beach on a gloomy day in Mandva Port, Maharashtra.

fort

A mysterious fortress has cropped up on a remote island of a central Indian dam. It is over-grown with monsoon greenery and neglect - what a beautiful sight as it awaits a certain future of silence any privacy, until a film unit decides to…

industry · monsoon

Workers take a break from the dirty work they have been assigned. This footage documents two sanitation workers cleaning a newly constructed roadside drainage channel in Delhi, India.

monsoon · river

Barrage on the Saryu river along the Indo-Nepal border. Muddy waters swell up the Sarju river as the monsoon dumps mud, silt and rains upstream in India and Nepal.

Every year during May and June, Delhi faces a water crisis, every summer this issue arises. Once the monsoon commences, this difficulty will be over.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet: A prettier Himalayan bird there isn't! Verditer Flycatcher quivers its tail as it delivers it's lovely trilling call! Deep blue bird catches monsoon light It's tail quivers as…

river · farmland

Life along the mighty Brahmaputra river - in many ways a more impactful and larger riverine system than even the Ganges, in terms of scope and breadth-width of flow.

boats · aerial

Alappuzha greens: beautiful aerials view of Kerala rice fields, waterways and blue skies with monsoon clouds. What verdant countryside from India's south.